AIR Network delivers an extensive Employment, Training and Education (ETE) Programme for those individuals who identify ETE as a goal. This is delivered in partnership and with the support of our extensive London wide supply chain network.

All service users complete a Personal Support Plan which sets out their goals and aims for their time with AIR Network. When this includes ETE our mentors will provide a range of employability support including CV building, interview skills, job applications and physical preparation for interviews including dress to impress support.

Where individuals require additional support or have identified a specific employment area, our mentors will support them to engage with and sustain with a wide range of ETE providers and training organisations.

AIR Network’s Supply Chain Network consists of a wide range of pan London and National providers, this network allows our mentors to quickly match individuals to high quality opportunities within organisations with whom we have a successful and standing partnership.

AIR Network’s approach to reducing reoffending is to tackle the underlying issues that can contribute to an individual offending. Removing the practical blockages is the first step in that process, this both provides the individual with quick achievements but also helps to build the relationship between our coach mentors and the individual.

We work with prisons, the National Probation Service, Local Authorities and the third sector in a collaborative approach to provide coordinated activities, interventions and support that aims to reduce reoffending and long term change within the individual.

This process often starts before individuals leave prison, our coach mentors work on the prison wings, engaging in mentoring, fitness and sports sessions and helping to plan the support for when an individual is released. This is where we start to build the trusting relationships that we will carry into the Community programme.

AIR Network delivers a full through the gate and beyond programme which includes meeting individuals on the day of release, this meeting is crucial in helping to address issues such as homelessness, anxiety and isolation which often occur on release.

At this stage our Community programme will begin the process of developing an individual support plan, tackling the immediate practical blockages and the intensive longer term mentoring to change behaviours, attitudes, relationships and ultimately lives.

We use a recovery based approach to support people to make informed decisions regarding substance and alcohol use. Our focus is on developing recovery capital and in encouraging each individual to understand the health and wellbeing effects on them from continued substance and alcohol misuse.

We work on building resilience, self-confidence, relationships, learning to be successful and improving health, all of which we believe help individuals develop the coping and life skills to maintain recovery and reduce the risk of relapse.

We work with a range of treatment providers to provide support to individuals already in treatment and work in the community delivering engagement and support programmes to individuals who are treatment naive.

Our goal is to help individuals understand and take control of their substance misuse. Whilst abstinence is the ideal goal we recognise that each individual will be on their own personal journey to recovery. Therefore, our services are individually tailored to work with each individual at the level and stage they are at.