Ouders van Tegendraadse Jeugd is a parenting support programme consisting of interventions and support materials for parents of young offenders or those at risk of offending, and professionally trained workers. Halt has worked with this programme for some time now.
The aim of the programme is to make the preventive approach of juvenile crime more effective and consequently reduce the number of first time offenders and to curb re-offending.
Target Group
Parents of juveniles at an increased risk of offending are the target group. These are parents either of children who have not or not yet come into contact with the police, but who, due to a chain of risk factors, are more likely to commit crimes or parents of actual young offenders.
Discussions with the parents focus on the kind of support they want and what the professional worker deems suitable.
The programme consists of five parenting support interventions that differ in intensity, objectives, target groups and methods.
Parents are supposed to improve their parenting skills as a result of which their children will no longer commit offences.
