March 30, 2021, series of online trainings “Application of the Risk and Needs Assessment tool and individual sentence planning for sentenced offenders” started for six penitentiary institutions. The training is initiated by the Joint Project “European Union and Council of Europe working together to support the Prison Reform in Ukraine”.
The purpose of the training is to reduce the number of reoffending, as well as to form the readiness of participants to assess the risks of reoffending by convicts and conduct individual planning of work with them.
Employees of the following correctional colonies take part in the training: Zhytomyrska (№ 4), Raikivska (№ 73), Vinnytska (№ 86), Pivnichna (№ 90), Manevytska (№ 72), Drohobytska (№ 40). The training module lasts 36 hours. The trainers are experts of the Joint EU and the Council of Europe Project Yevhen Ivashev and Yulia Paskevska.
Olga Derkach, a senior officer of the Joint Project “European Union and Council of Europe working together to support the Prison Reform in Ukraine”, said that the training consists of 12 online sessions. 6 sessions will be organized jointly for the staff of all correctional colonies to develop theoretical approaches to assessing the risks of re-offending, and another 6 sessions will be organized separately for each colony to develop practical skills.
The Joint EU and Council of Europe Project “European Union and Council of Europe working together to support the Prison Reform in Ukraine” is designed to promote human rights compliant management of prisons.
