Lessons from Lessons from Alternatives to Alternatives to

CustodyCustody

Val Lawrie

Team Manager

Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian D.T.T.O.

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The past is historyThe past is history The future is a mysteryThe future is a mystery What is important is the present!What is important is the present!

WORKING TOGETHER

WORKS!

Lesson One!Lesson One!

Edinburgh Probation ProjectEdinburgh Probation Project

GroupworkGroupwork

Addressing Offending BehaviourAddressing Offending Behaviour

Probation with a condition of Drug Probation with a condition of Drug TreatmentTreatment

Use of Local ResourcesUse of Local Resources

Residential TreatmentResidential Treatment

Lesson Two!Lesson Two!

Co-operation

NOT

Competition

EHEH ? ? ?? ? ?

What ! ! !What ! ! !

How * * *How * * *

IncludedIncludedSortedSortedCLANCLANTurning Point Turning Point (Scotland)(Scotland)

Anything you can do Anything you can do

We can do better!We can do better!

We can do Anything better than We can do Anything better than you!you!

Lesson Three!Lesson Three!

Well

We

Can’t!

Venture ScotlandVenture Scotland Princes TrustPrinces Trust B.B.V. clinicB.B.V. clinic

Lesson 4Lesson 4

It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it …..

““Positive individual Positive individual relationships with staff”relationships with staff”

““Good relationships with Good relationships with workers”workers”

““People believing in me”People believing in me”

It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it …..

Lesson 4Lesson 4

That’s What Gets

RESULTS