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Community integration
To integrate offenders into the general community and desist from crime
- Assist inmates to adjust to community-based orders to maintain community safety.
- Empower inmates to maintain family contact and relationships where it is safe to do so.
- Assist families of inmates in relation to issues that arise as a result of incarceration e.g. child care and contact issues, illness and death in custody etc.
- Assist with pre-release activities for inmates to reintegrate to the community and desist from crime
- Facilitate access to pre-release planning activities including community service providers. These include but are not limited to community health, disability, education and training, employment, social security agencies and immigration agencies
- Assist offenders identified as having a mental health impairment to access appropriate service agencies
- Assist to offenders identified as having a cognitive, sensory or physical disability including aged and frail, to access appropriate service agencies
- Assist offenders with challenging behaviors who pose a security threat to others to promote community safety
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We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Nations Peoples of NSW and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
Informed by lessons of the past, Department of Communities and Justice is improving how we work with Aboriginal people and communities. We listen and learn from the knowledge, strength and resilience of Stolen Generations Survivors, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal communities.
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