CCF to help implement UN project to promote prisoners’ mental and skill welfare

Crime Check Foundation (CCF) has been selected to implement a project to promote the psychosocial welfare of prison inmates in some selected prisons.

CCF will work with three other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to help provide psychosocial and mental health support to prisoners and prison staff.

The project is dubbed “Improving Access to Psychosocial Support and Arts Therapy in Prisons in Ghana.”

The project will be implemented considering the importance of society in rehabilitating and reintegrating prisoners in line with the United Nations’ commitment to strengthen and partner with Civil Society Organizations.

It is part of efforts to strengthen compliance with the United Nations Standards Minimum Rules (Nelson Mandela rules) for the treatment of Prisoners by the Ghana Prisons Service.

It is a three-year prison reform project by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with the Ghana Prisons Service and funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement of the U.S. State Department.

Crime Check Foundation and its partners are to implement the project with each organization taking different thematic areas.

CCF in its capacity, will help increase psychosocial support to prisoners through psychotherapy by providing psychologists and psychiatrists treatment.

This will be carried out through arts therapy, including theatre and writing schemes for prisoners, together with Universities.

Rudolph Nandi