Results & Feedback
Supporting People
Our Work with Prisoners
In our work with people we use a range of assessment tools to help us measure progress in all of our workstreams. In our recent pilot with prisoners we used a PCL-5 assessment tool where respondents were asked to rate how affected they have been by each of 20 items in the past month on a 5 point scale ranging from 0-4. 0= not at all 4 = extremely. A score of 3 or more indicates you may have post-traumatic stress disorder which can be determined by a clinician where appropriate. Following the Dignifi intervention on follow-up assessment on the PCL-5 there was a marked decrease in scores.
The average number of trauma symptoms experienced in the last month went from 15 to 5.
It is on the severity of symptoms that the most difference can be seen with the average on severity of symptom falling to 8 out of 80 from 43 and original score of 43.
In response to the question: How do you feel you have come on since you started Dignifi’s Recovery Programme? We get comments like:
Our Work in the Community
The work we have delivered in the community has been evaluated ongoing. The first evaluation of people 12 months after completion can be found here. DIGNIFI PROBATION EVALUATION REPORT
Feedback from our partners in Probation:
“The service delivered by Dignifi has been excellent in terms of input and exploration of the trauma the young man has experienced. This has helped [client] understand his feelings and responses to life’s challenges and raise awareness of his lost childhood. This feeds into his risk management as he has more understanding of his risky behaviour and being able to talk about this in a safe environment has been invaluable”.
Dignifi also gave my service user the skills to recognise triggers to their own anger and how this impacted on their behaviour not just towards themselves but to others – relating this to their index offence. This in turn offered up more insight into the service user’s offending behaviour in the past and how this was related to their own early experiences of trauma and issues around forming positive lasting relationships in their adult life. This work has been backed up by [Dignifi] teaching strategies and techniques to the service user to deal with the triggers to their anxiety and emotional trauma in a different way – helping them turn around negative thought processes into positive thought patterns which can then impact more widely into their emotional life and daily experiences”.