Reconnect

Supporting People, Meeting Needs, and Building Better Lives

The Reconnect service is a consent based service and aims to help offenders and people on remand on release from prison who have health needs in one or more of five domains:

• GP Registration
• Dentistry
• Physical Health
• Mental Health
• Substance Misuse

Every referral is assessed to ensure that any risk can be managed appropriately within the service.

Our team works with individuals from 12 weeks prior to their release from prison, and up to six months afterwards, including targeted support on the day of release where possible.

Reconnect understands that being released from prison can be highly stressful for the individual, whether they have been on remand or serving a custodial sentence, and aims to take a trauma-informed approach to offering support.

We aim to help individuals to re-engage with community-based health and support services and enhance wellbeing, to reduce social exclusion, and to reduce their health-related offending behaviours. This is done by offering individualised support, advocacy, signposting, and peer mentoring. This is achieved through close partnership working with The Probation Service, drug and alcohol services, secondary mental health services, GP’s, dentistry and a wide variety of other community organisations.

It is a non-clinical service which offers support to individuals being released from prison back to Devon and Cornwall. Referrals can be submitted up to 12 weeks pre-release or 28 days post-release.

Contact us

Please click here to download the latest version of our referral form.

For clinical queries and referrals, please get in touch on: dpt.reconnect@nhs.net