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Arbeitgemeinschaft (AG) Resohelp des Diakonischen Werks, Stadtverband Hannover e.V.

B - IMPACT ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

Legal/financial exclusion
Positive impacts
(Ex-)prisoners are extensively informed on their legal situation as well as financial claims, and empowered to submit their claims, apply for jobs, thus step-by-step (re-) assuming full responsibility for their legal and financial situation.

Creation/conservation of local employment
Positive impacts
By giving job service counselling and support for delinquents and ex-prisoners on the one hand, and by hiring their own staff, Resohelp makes a small but significant contribution towards creation/conservation of local employment. At Resohelp, there are currently 3.33 positions for social workers and one position of a professional practical trainee.

Adaptation to new realities
Positive impacts
Resohelp's work helps society understand the issues behind the (ex-)prisoners' legal and financial situations, at the same time supporting the latter while adjusting to today's fast-moving realities.

Cross sectoral working
Positive impacts
Resohelp acts as an interface between the clients and different institutions or persons (e.g. the Public Prosecution Service, the Job Center / Employment Agency, landlords, and many other charities), thus increasing their area of impact. This cross-sectoral work is being ensured by the fact that Resohelp has been founded as a Working Partnership (Arbeitsgemeinschaft) of 8 institutions: the Diakonisches Werk – Local Committee Hannover e. V., the Caritas Association of Hannover e. V., the City of Hannover, Department of Social Affairs, the Prisoner Welfare Association of Hannover, the Head of the Correctional Facility of the City of Hannover, the Catholic Church Office of the Correctional Facility of the City of Hannover, the Association of City Churches of Hannover, and the Job Center of Hannover Region.

Enablement of social enterpreneurship
Impacts not known

Amenities for local people
Neutral impacts
Helping delinquents and former prisoners reintegrate within their social communities, Resohelp brings benefits not only to the target group, who gradually achieve social rehabilitation, but also to the communities themselves.

Educational opportunities
Positive impacts
Resohelp's work makes a good contribution to help (ex-)prisoners and offenders develop their social skills, including self-esteem, self-responsability and self-care, but also taking on social responsibility.

Crisis response
Positive impacts
In times of crisis, supporting vulnerable social groups becomes essential. By their decades of experience as well as by their long-standing partners, the Working Partnership Resohelp holds all the instruments necessary for supporting the target group from being excluded from community life and from society.

Local financial environment for soc ent
Neutral impacts

Local policy environment for soc ent
Neutral impacts

National financial environment for soc ent
Impacts not known

National policy environment for soc ent
Impacts not known

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