What Kainos Community is:
The Kainos ‘Challenge to Change’ is a six month hybrid cognitive behavioural community programme that is targeted at medium to high risk offenders.
The programme addresses:
· Deficits in self management, decision making and problem solving
· Poor cognitive skills
· Poor pro-social interpersonal skills
· Cognitive support for offending
Through the Programme’s ‘community as method’ Therapeutic Community approach it also concentrates on the following factors
· Victim Awareness
· Anti-social attitudes and feelings
· Strong social ties and identification with anti-social/criminal models and impulsive anti-social lifestyle
· Weak social ties and identification with pro-social/non-criminal model
The programme targets medium to high risk offenders with OGRS scores of above 30, with evidence of the criminogenic risk factors targeted by the programme. Whilst the selection does not focus on any particular crime, the criminogenic risk factors targeted would tend to exclude offenders who have engaged in crimes of considerable planning or requiring social skills, such as high level fraud or drug dealing. Untreated sexual offenders are also excluded due to their unique rehabilitative needs, but should treated offenders still exhibit risk factors targeted by the programme, they could then be accepted for treatment.
KAINOS COMMUNITY at The Verne feature on BBC iPlayer
With presentor, Tim Daykin.