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- To provide a community based aftercare service for young people returning
to the community on release from prison or place of detention and thereby undertake the re-socialisation, training and education of such young people and where possible to find suitable employment.
- To direct young people into other community based services and agencies that may assist in the re-socialisation, training and education of such young people in the use of these services.
- To provide support to young people as will help them address drug addiction and other factors linked to their previous offending behaviour.
- To promote and develop an integrated plan and code of practice to meet the needs of these young people among local agencies and community groups.
- To promote links between the local community-based agencies and similar services in the prison.
- To establish, should it be desired, educational and recreational programmes for those young people who are seeking or have sought the support of society.
- To maintain, as far as practicable, contact with such young people should they be returned to prison or place of detention.
- To develop public confidence in the ability of community based services to cater for the needs of such young people and promote a restorative justice ethos.
TARGET GROUP
'Persistant young offenders from the Blanchardstown area, within the 16-21 year age group, who have spent time in prison or place of detention.'(New Directions '98 Pg44)
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