Outlook helps you to understand your choices, consider consequences and take responsibility for your actions. Future helps you to locate and secure work, understand and take action to improve your employment chances such as through training and education. Home helps you to get settled accommodation and become part of the community. It helps with practical things, such as securing a tenancy and how to pay bills. Support encourages you to think about the impact of your actions on your family and loved ones and helps you to maintain positive relationships. Money helps you to manage your personal finances, including debt, accessing benefits, and budgeting for the future. Health covers ways in which health care can be accessed and helps you to look at how to stay healthy, the importance of exercise and diet, as well as sexual health issues. Habit will help you to understand the thinking behind your addiction and how to introduce steps to help you regain control. For more information, contact your Probation Officer, or email: * [email protected] 7 www.ksscrc.co.uk Through the Gate what it means to me New laws mean if you’re in prison for one day or more, you’ll be supervised in the community for up to 12 months on release. This is known as ‘Through the Gate’. Through the Gate Through the Gate is designed to help you settle back into the community and give you rehabilitation support once you’re out so you can turn your life around. As part of this, you’ll create a plan and be responsible for making the changes you need to lead a different life – one that doesn’t involve crime. How does it work? Your Problem, Your Solution We’re the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company (KSS CRC for short). Staff from our Resettlement team, based in offices near your prison, will visit you and assess your rehabilitation needs. We believe you are the best person to find solutions to your problems, but we will help you find them. You can be crimefree and we will support your efforts to get there. Together with you, we’ll agree a resettlement plan to help you develop new skills and change the behaviour that led you to offending in the first place. This plan begins during custody and continues on your release. If your period of imprisonment is only a few days, the plan will focus more on what you need to do in the community. Kent, Surrey & Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company Ltd Registered office: 75-77 Main Road, Hockley, Essex SS5 4RG Company registration number: 08802556 How this happens will be in your resettlement plan and will be based on My Solution Rehabilitation Programme (MSRP for short). This programme focuses on a number of key areas that can be a problem and are linked to reoffending. It is designed to challenge attitudes, develop improved behaviour and skills needed for a crime-free life. Once you’ve been assessed, we’ll agree which areas to focus on. Working with partners to help you succeed As part of your resettlement plan we’ll signpost you to organisations to help you in areas such as the following: • housing support • employment and training • money management • substance misuse and addiction We will also make sure that support is available for victims of domestic abuse/ sexual violence and for sex workers. What’s expected of me? You’ll need to take responsibility for your own rehabilitation and understand only you can make the changes needed to stay clear of crime. You need to do the following: • follow through with actions agreed • tell us if there are problems • be honest with us and yourself Doing this will give you the best chance to turn your life around. If you don’t, enforcement measures may be required.