Re-Unite is a project to enable mothers on release from prison to be reunited with their children into stable, safe accommodation with all the available support they need to re-establish themselves as a self-sufficient, productive family unit so that within twenty-four months of mother's release, they can successfully move on into independent accommodation
The Re-Unite Project is a partnership between
Women in Prison,
Housing for Women and
Commonweal Housing.
Housing for Women is a registered charity and a housing association. The central ethos is the empowerment of women to take charge of their own lives by providing a secure home.
The Association provides good quality accommodation for women and their dependents at affordable rents in a range of housing. A major focus of the Association's work is to combat domestic violence, providing housing and support services, both through emergency and permanent accommodation and through outreach work in the community.
Women in Prison (WIP) is a registered charity that was established in 1983 as a support and campaign group for women prisoners.
Women in Prison's mission is to promote the resettlement, personal development, education and training of women prisoners and ex-prisoners, to educate the public and policy makers about women in the criminal justice system and to promote alternatives to custody.
Commonweal Housing is a registered charity that works to resolve social problems in London caused through the lack of suitable homes by facilitating the provision of housing in London for people who are having great difficulty due to level of income, physical ability, mental capacity, mobility, social skills or a need for specialist support, and to undertake research so that the needs of these people are sensitively and thoroughly understood and thus solved more effectively".
Commonweal Housing supports projects that are suitable for being developed as prototype role models and can be replicated by other organisations.
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