Engage & DIVERT (360G-Walcot-0061E00001L7RadQAF)

Engage & DIVERT is a police custody diversion programme that works to prevent 10 -17 from becoming first-time entrants into the criminal justice system. Via Youth Endowment Fund and MoPAC funding Juvenis is able to work in partnership with MET Police, Lambeth Youth Offending, and Lambeth Council to provide a service to young people who are arrested for the first time. Juvenis explore the reasons for police attention, the young person's interests, support networks, and education status and devises an action plan to support them to achieve their objectives and prevent future offending. As part of this service, Juvenis wish to offer an additional therapeutic intervention (including family/domestic violence support) to the young people and families they engage. This 12-week intervention will be in addition to the core (already funded) main work and provide at least 1 extra hour a week of family support/therapy to half of the young people that the Engage and DIVERT project works with. A key objective of this work will be to improve engagement with school/education to increase protective factors against offending.