The Walk to Freedom
Charity number: 1173398
Website: www.walktofreedom.co.uk
Description:
The Walk to Freedom believes in its services and we challenge some of the more dated approaches to drug and/or alcohol dependency, training and adolescent antisocial behaviour in relation to gangs, knife crime and adolescent drug abuse. By thinking differently with our newly designed and innovative programmes, workshops and mentoring, The Walk to Freedom is in a class of its own delivering a quality service to the local community and nationwide based on the needs of its clients, not on what we think they need.
Referrals are received from the youth offender and probation services, education authorities, corporate employers and self referrals.
Founded in 2011, we are run from the ground by an ex service user peer led up a team of highly trained and qualified staff and volunteers, many of whom are able to draw upon personal experience of conquering dependency. Indeed, our team?s capacity to directly empathise with the complex challenges facing users provides our programmes with a unique perspective that over 7 years has seen many lives freed from addiction.
We have also successfully seen young people returned to full time education, employment, a number of young people exit from antisocial behaviour, gang and knife crime and we have had a very high success rate in young people who have stopped using recreational drugs or the abuse of them through our back door approach to substance misuse.
Where there has been situations of early pregnancy we have also supported young people through their drug use successfully that their babies were born healthy.
Every single ex offender that we have supported has being reported to never have offended again thus far. Being that we work with the social services and other council run youth services reports and updates are always updated on clients who leave our programme for up to or over a year.
We also have what's called an open door policy where we keep open dialogue with former clients. Whilst clients are on our programme we use the Outcome Stars tool, and pre,mid and end feedback questionnaires to monitor each clients progress.