Science-based counseling for formerly incarcerated persons

Objectives: What do you want to achieve by implementing the project?

The specific objectives of the project are; collecting a set of good examples of SCM in EU prisons as well as other educational bodies dealing with young prisoner education, to obtain an applicable science-based transnational methodological framework (together with its tools like spiritual well-being scale for young prisoners) on SCM’s in prison context.

Implementation: What activities are you going to implement?

To reach the objectives of the project we will implement 4 activities. 1st will be project management activity including Financial Management, Transnational Project Meetings; Sharing&promoting Strategies; Monitoring and Evaluation. 2nd is about researching for good examples of the spiritual counseling methodologies in EU prisons. 3rd is to obtain an applicable science-based transnational methodology on SCM in prison context 4th is training of professionals for the new SCM.

Specific objectives:

• Establishing a survey platform and executing field analysis to examine the studies conducted in Europe and Turkey on the spiritual counselling services provided to young people who have committed crimes. 
•  Collecting a set of good examples of SCM’s in European prisons as well as other educational bodies dealing with young ex-offender education to make a base for creating a science based transnational SCM.
• Developing an applicable science-based transnational methodological framework (together with its tools like spiritual well-being scale for young ex/offenders) on SCM’s in prison and in probation institution context to promote social inclusion and to aim at improving the spiritual counseling services for the young prisoners.
• Preparing an open-access and accessible online science-based spiritual counselling methodology tool for young ex/prisoners to share and promote the results of the project .

Partners:

Turkey,Romania,Spain and Italy