In this, the second blog in our Thinking Back, Looking Forward series, we hear from John, who has recently moved on as lead coach at HMP Pentonville to a new role outside of StandOut, in the world of education. John joined the StandOut team in January 2021 after two years at Pentonville as a prison officer through the Unlocked Grads programme. Now, on the other side of his journey with us – having made a fantastic impact during his time as a StandOut coach, he reflects on his experiences and what he will take forward with him in his next steps.
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StandOut has reached a significant moment: five years since we ran the first pilot course in HMP Wandsworth in the spring of 2017: cause for celebration but also for a redoubling of our effort.
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Hannah has joined StandOut as an experienced coach. For our recent trainee bulletin, she talks about coaching - why we do it and what impact it can have.
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Our CEO and co-founder Penny Parker recently joined a StandOut workshop in HMP Wandsworth and reflects how, even in a shorter version of our full programme, the men found a safe space to be vulnerable.
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Last year, we supported Joey via the StandOut Helpline service as he prepared to leave HMP Wandsworth. Almost a year later, we caught up with Joey to find out what prison was like during the pandemic and how StandOut supported him to navigate the challenges since being released.
Read MoreAfter two years’ working in HMP Pentonville as a prison officer through the Unlocked Gradudate programme, John Sampson reflects on his first six months as our Lead Coach in Pentonville and delivering StandOut’s first face-to-face workshops since the pandemic began.
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365 days of lockdown, more than 3000 calls to our Helpline and record numbers of people released into homelessness. On the anniversary of lockdown, our Development Manager, Sarah Hocking, reflects on the impact of covid-19 on prisons and the people StandOut supports.
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Alex Rose, Lead Coach at HMP Wandsworth, was interviewed by the Criminal Justice Alliance for their #MeetTheMember blog series. Alex reflects on his own journey and what makes him passionate about relational working in the criminal justice sector.
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Louisa Laven, StandOut’s first Community Coach, joins us after two and a half years working as a prison officer through the Unlocked Graduate programme. Louisa reflects on what brought her to StandOut and how she has spent her first weeks with the team...
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At the start of Erin’s first Pentonville course in February none of us could have predicted that it would be cut short two days before graduation, or that six months later we would still be having our team meetings via Zoom…
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How the resilience of our trainees in the face of covid-19 is encouraging and inspiring the whole team.
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