Help mental health clients to manage their anger better so that they don't harm themselves or other people (several mental health clients are or have also been offenders)

Planned, delivered and evaluated a 2-week summer theatre programme for young adult inmates. The course covered games & exercises acting storytelling performance techniques, devising and rehearsal into performance to governors and education staff. Fifteen inmates were able to gain credits towards their OCN Drama Level 1.

The Drama Workhouse
Name of the Project: Creative Skills 4 Life
Summary: This project focuses on giving vulnerable and disadvantaged people, such as those at risk of homelessness, people with disabilities, refugees, ex-offenders and young socially excluded people, the skills and confidence they need to break away from a life of deprivation and desperation. The aim is to engage trainees in a non-judgemental environment in order that they can begin to build independence. The project is run using an OCN accredited course in Performance.

Restorative Arts UK
Name of the Project: Untold Stories
Summary: ‘Untold Stories’ was a six week project with six groups of young men from Melbourne and Malmsbury Juvenile Justice Centres in Australia(80/90 participants). It was facilitated and managed by Restorative Arts UK and was in conjunction with the Victoria YMCA.The project was a deeply personal and thought provoking insight into the pasts and futures of the participants using Music, Visual Arts, Drama, Dance and Creative Writing to tell the stories they devised through the Responsibility, Empathy and Tolerance (RET) process. A safe platform is established for participants to devise material created through the collaboration and negotiation of the whole group. The process is designed to allow the participants to have full ownership over devising their material but it is the RET process (delivered through workshops) that helps give positive structure to their ideas.

Film Script developed with nine young men serving long sentences, about The Wild Man of Orford Myth. The film is a reworking of a local myth which tells of a merman being fished out of the sea. It was shot entirely within prison/institute locations: for example the boat at sea, fishing hut etc were all created on site. The film will be premiered in the prison and distributed to other young offenders institutions.

In 1998 Clean Break initated a group work programme for women in collaboration with Inner Local Probation Area. The Women and Anger Programme aimed to enable women in the criminal justice system to better communicate their anger, so to reduce the likelihood of harm to themselves or others in their community.

In 2002 Clean Break gained further funding to run the Women & Anger programme, piloting the existing manual with women who had experience of the Criminal Justice System in a number of different settings.