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FAMILIES OUTSIDE THE ONLY VOICE FOR FAMILIES AFFECTED BY IMPRISONMENT IN SCOTLAND
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Freephone Number :
0500 83 93 83 Monday - Friday : 1pm - 5pm Answerphone if not available |
Scottish Company No. 236539
Charity No. SCO25366
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Families Outside is a Scottish charity which helps hundreds of families each year through the Scottish Prisoners' Family Helpline. Through research, training and partnership work, Families Outside aims to raise awareness of the needs of families affected by imprisonment so that they can get the information and support they need to cope.
Families Outside has a new address - 13 Great King St, Edinburgh, EH3 6QW
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The imprisonment of a relative can have a huge impact on their family:
- Risk to housing tenure
- Financial pressures;
- Problems in caring for children and the impact on the 13,500 children who lose a parent to imprisonment each year;
- Anxiety, distress and health problems;
- Rejection and stigma by neighbours and the community.
Families affected by imprisonment face a process of grief and readjustment throughout the course of arrest, trial, imprisonment and release proceedings.
Families find it difficult to get the information and support they need to make them feel in control during periods of crisis and stress.
Hear the Voices of the Families Affected by Imprisonment
Conference 2006 - Playing Our Part
This audio file contains reflections on the experience of having a substance misusing member of the family go to prison.
- Low Quality playing_our_part_24kbps_m.mp3 | 4.1meg
- High Quality playing_our_part_64kbps_s.mp3 | 10.9meg
To read each of the family members' words, please download the Adobe pdf transcript.
Conference 2004 - Adjusting, adjusting, readjusting
This audio file contains the voices of families talking about their journey through the experience of having relative in prison.
- Low Quality journey_24kbps_m.mp3 | 0.4meg
- High Quality journey_64kbps_s.mp3 | 1.2meg
Click one of the links to play the audio file, or you can right-click and select 'Save As...' to download to your computer.