The Shine Women's Mentoring Service supports women across Scotland to make real and positive changes to their lives following involvement with the justice system.

In this episode, we're looking at the Shining On service with mentor, Corina and volunteer, Tammy. Shining On is an extension to Shine which is delivered by volunteers and provides practical and emotional support to women after their involvement with Shine.

The Shine Women's Mentoring Service supports women across Scotland in making real and positive changes to their lives following involvement with the justice system.

In this episode, we're talking about the overall management of Shine with its National Partnership manager, Haydn Pasi.

As part of its ten-year anniversary, Shine commissioned an independent research company to undertake an extensive evaluation into the performance, impact, outcomes and future development of the service.

In preparing their report, The Lines Between interviewed women directly supported by the service as well as mentors and stakeholders from other voluntary and statutory organisations engaging with Shine.

In this episode, we speak to Mike Nicholson, Senior Researcher with The Lines Between, to hear about some of the findings and observations resulting from their evaluation.

You can also read the report in full on our website at shinementoring.org.

The Shine women’s mentoring service supports women across Scotland in making real and positive changes to their lives following involvement with the justice system.

Although she received a custodial sentence, Karen was released following a long period of remand and was supported by Shine on her release. In this episode, Karen reflects on her experience, fears and hopes as she chats with Maureen who supported her through the experience.

In this episode of the Shine Podcast, Robert speaks with Sammy, one of Shine's Prison-based Champions and hears how the role helps prepare women for release from prison, and the support that follows.

The Shine women’s mentoring service supports women across Scotland in making real and positive changes to their lives following involvement with the justice system.

In this episode, we hear from Layla and her journey with Shine. Here, she chats with her mentor Abi about the support she received when facing a court appearance – and possible prison sentence – to looking forward to rehab, a new home, and new opportunities.

Welcome to this special podcast to recognise International Restorative Justice Week 2022.

For this edition, we speak to Gemma Fraser, Head of Restorative Justice and Recovery at Community Justice Scotland.

The Shine women’s mentoring service supports women across Scotland in making real and positive changes to their lives following involvement with the justice system.

In this episode, Adele Hill, Co-Chief Executive of Access to Industry – one of the partner organisations delivering the Shine service – gives her observations of how Shine has developed over its 10 years. Involved at the very beginning of the project, Adele has first-hand experience of the impact Shine has made in supporting women in Scotland.

Some terms and acronyms are used during the podcast. To help the listener, these references are:

• PSP: Public/Social Partnership. A strategic partnership between public and voluntary sector organisations; used as the model for delivery of Shine.
• CMS: Case Management System. Digital service used to record individual’s details and record progress through the service.
• TSO: Throughcare Support Officer. A (usually) prison service employee tasked with assisting people transition from life in prison, back to the community.
• Outcomes Star: An analytics tool used to assess service impact on a number of defined areas where women may need support and improvement to live more stable, independent lives.