In2Change is a unique South Yorkshire project that stops young people leading a life of crime by confronting them with prisoners and ex-offenders.
The project in Sheffield aims to stop young people that are, for a number of reasons, at risk of leading a life of crime, drugs, prison or even murder. The time the young people spend with ex-offenders such as Hanif Mohammed, who served 10 years for killing a man, and Karen Howell-Ball who was sentenced to four years for conspiracy to supply drugs have a dramatic and positive impact on them.
The In2Change Project involves powerful, factual role play presentations delivered by trained, qualified ex-offenders and prisoners. The intensive programme is hard hitting, factual and portrays the consequences of crime and prison life as learnt by those that have been there. The exercises and lessons look at the impact of crime and anti-social behaviour as much from the victims’ perspective as they do the perpetrators.
