About Us
Youth Ink is a forum operating in the heart of communities and led by people with experience of the criminal justice system. Youth Ink uses the power of peer networks to rehabilitate and to create safer communities for the future.
By harnessing these relationships and improving collaboration with decision-makers at all levels, Youth Ink ensures justice policies have maximum impact on the most vulnerable individuals in society.
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The Criminal Justice System can only create long-term change by listening to the voices of those who have entered the justice system.
Youth Ink is an aspirational voice, providing a stage for those who have not been given a legitimate first chance.
Youth Ink knows what can be put in place to intervene early, to change the long-term course of people in our communities.
Youth Ink knows this because they very people who make up the organisation have lived it.
Youth Ink speaks simply and concisely, ensuring policy asks are clear at all times Youth Ink’s mission is to work with the most marginalised people in and around the criminal justice system in order to improve health and rehabilitation through collaboration creating safer communities.
Values
We are service-users led
We embrace lived experience and use it to improve policies for future generations.
We give people opportunities
We are focussed on creating legitimate first chances and giving people a voice.
We are aspirational
We all have a responsibility to lift the spirits of our forum and our community.
We are collaborative
We work together, at all levels, to transform lives, long-term.
