SOVA Derby Community Safety Partnership

	The aims of SOVA Derby Community Safety Partnership are: Community Mentoring - To recruit, train and support volunteer mentors and to then match those volunteers with young offenders referred to SOVA by the YOS... The aims of SOVA Derby Community Safety Partnership are: Community Mentoring - To recruit, train and support volunteer mentors and to then match those volunteers with young offenders referred to SOVA by the YOS. The Community Mentoring Service provides opportunities for young people to be matched with a trained volunteer, who acts as a role model to that young person with an aim to reduce re-offending.    Community Champions - To identify, capacity build, train and support Community Champions in order to empower them to tackle local community issues or needs. (Community Champions are local community activists who, with the support of their communities, want to improve local conditions.)    Domestic Violence Volunteers - To identify, capacity build, train and support volunteers who provide cascade training within their local community to raise awareness of domestic violence issues.   Victim Liaison - This service provides information and access to support for direct victims of youth crime, or a relevant representative. It also provides opportunities for direct victims or a relevant representative to have direct or indirect access to the Restorative Justice processes used by the Youth Offending Service.    Anti-Social Behaviour - To recruit, train and support volunteers to work with Women’s Work (a project working with street sex-workers). Providing opportunities for Women’s Work volunteers to undertake relevant training and access support, information and guidance relating to their voluntary activity.     Appropriate Adults - To recruit, train, supervise and support volunteers to act as appropriate adults for young people aged between 10 and 17 years who are held under arrest at St Mary’s Wharf City Police Station when no parent, guardian or other adult carer is available. This service is available 24 hours a day throughout the year. This service also supports young people who have appeared before the Youth Courts held on Saturday mornings and have been remanded into the care of the local authority, or where a Court Ordered Secure Remand has been ordered.     The project also offers an Appropriate Adult Service for young people in care, who are arrested and taken to the police station in the absence of a social worker, parent or guardian. This service is funded separately, though the Children & Young Peoples Department of Derby City Council 1:1 Support Representation Adults in the Community Young People in Custody Young People in the Community Contract Name: Derby City Community Mentoring & AA Funder: Derby City YOS Contract Name: Derbyshire Community Mentoring SS Funder: Derby Social Services Derby - St Peters House SOVA Derby Community Safety Partnership 2nd Floor St Peters House Gower Street Derby DE1 1SB Tel: Not available Mob: Fax: 01332 256 830 Email: [email protected]  Scropton Mentoring and Engage joint effort Mother and Son receiving cheque on behalf of Scropton The Walkers. All Derby projects combine on this fund raising event. Mentoring and Appropriate Adult volunteers and young people. Helen (staff member on left) is presenting cheque to Alzheimer�s Society. Mentoring bike ride to raise money for various charities The Operational Director for this project is Sophie Wilson contactable at SOVA Midlands Office