Peer Mentoring Programme For Cjs Veterans

The Peer Mentoring Programme offered by Healthier Heroes is a valuable initiative designed to support veterans who have had involvement with the criminal justice system. Here's what you need to know about this program:

1. Support for Veterans: Healthier Heroes extends its support to veterans who have encountered legal challenges or are currently within the criminal justice system. This assistance is crucial in helping veterans rebuild their lives and reintegrate into society.

2. Peer Mentoring Approach: The program utilizes a peer mentoring model, where veterans with lived experience provide guidance and support to their peers who may be facing similar challenges. Peer mentors can relate to the unique experiences and issues that veterans in the criminal justice system encounter.

3. Rebuilding Lives: Healthier Heroes is dedicated to helping veterans and their families overcome barriers that may be limiting various aspects of their lives. This includes addressing issues related to employment, personal growth, and overall well-being.

4. Experienced Leadership: Healthier Heroes is led by a husband and wife team, including Andrew, the Managing Director and an ex-Colour Sergeant with 16 years of service in the infantry. Their deep understanding of military life and experiences equips them to provide effective support.

5. Community Engagement: Healthier Heroes has received recognition and awards for its services within the community. They have successfully conducted leadership development and Military Resilience Programmes in schools, colleges, and businesses in the North West region.

6. Positive Impact: Since its establishment in 2018, Healthier Heroes has made a positive impact on veterans and their families within the Armed Forces community. They are committed to offering valuable support and resources to those who have served their country.

The Peer Mentoring Programme by Healthier Heroes exemplifies their dedication to helping veterans navigate challenges and create a brighter future. By leveraging the power of peer support and their own experiences, they strive to make a meaningful difference in the lives of veterans involved with the criminal justice system.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduced myself. My name is Andrew Powell I am the CEO and co-Founder and owner of Healthier Heroes CIC with my Wife Rio Powell who is the COO. I have 16 years military service with the Queens Lancashire regiment then latterly the Duke of Lancaster’s regiment, which is where I ended my service in 2013. 

Healthier Heroes CIC provides support to ex-service personnel, their families and carers who are struggling with an array of complex requirements and support, as well as members of the NHS and other blue light services. The support offered to our service users includes housing, education, employment, tackling isolation and health and wellbeing. Partnering with statutory and other third sector organisations we ensure our service users receive the support they need using a collaboration approach. From consultation through to delivery our service users drive us. We pride ourselves on co-designing all our delivery programmes in joint consultation with our beneficiaries. 

We have been working with Many community groups and organisations within the north west for a number of years, with great and amazing success. We are very proud and very excited to be able to provide our services to support the wider armed forces community and blue light services across Lancashire. The charity has been set up and supported by people with lived experience of complex needs (including homelessness, mental health issues and substance misuse), so that clients have a space in which they will feel understood.

We are running a programme called UNITE INSPIRE BELIEVE which aims to tackle the complex needs of those in need. We opened our state of the art HQ, We opened Bancroft house in Burnley in December 2020, as we are now able to support the armed forces community across the north West. We are very excited to be able to house Homeless and venerable Veterans as well as those who have left the criminal Justice system, that may also be in need of support to help. This will help to stop the cycle of reoffending while providing 24-hour care and support to those that will be accommodated with us. Bancroft house offers accommodation with 21 double on suite rooms, as well as providing three move on properties that supports 8 veterans helping them to transition back into the community. Whilst also providing the wider community outreach support service to veterans and their families across the North west.