Mentoring & Justice

We pair children and teenagers with ADHD with mentors who grew up with ADHD themselves and managed to navigate life successfully in the longer term. These mentors provide understanding, practical strategies, and living proof that a different path can lead somewhere good.

Students in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) receive mentoring from successful ADHD adults who "took the long way around." These mentors use their lived experience of coming through the negative paths into positive ones, providing hope and a relatable roadmap for students currently outside mainstream education.

Similar to our PRU mentoring, this service provides direct guidance to youth offenders to help them understand their choices and find a pivot toward positive path carving, from people who genuinely understand what it is like growing up with ADHD.

This service helps prisoners understand the connection between their ADHD traits and their life choices. We help them find purpose and accept their different ways of thinking, recognising that other paths may be carved to help themselves and reduce re-offending.

We provide education and training to prison staff to help them understand and manage the ADHD individuals in their care more effectively. Better understanding leads to better outcomes for everyone in the system.

We provide representation and expert testimony in court, attending to explain how ADHD traits such as impulsivity, vengefulness from rumination, and emotional management issues may act as mitigating factors in criminal behaviour and life trajectories. This is about providing an explanation, not using ADHD as an excuse or justification.