ReVive prison program helping women break cycle of addiction and crime
ABCIn a large recycling facility in Sydney's west, Cindy Dumbrell – dressed in a helmet, mask and high-vis – is leading a team through a waste sorting machine. Natalie Davies works directly with candidates as Bingo's Indigenous employment manager, it's a role she describes as "like a big sister, little sister". Eddy Hazem is Yalagan's national group training manager and said offering offenders long-term employment and end-to-end support was critical in stopping "them falling back into bad habits again". "We make sure they're upskilled, they're assigned support … whether its housing, whether it's getting their drivers licence … because for the majority of these candidates it's a very hard transition." "Just being able to say I love you every day is awesome after ten years of pretty much nothing, broken promises from my behalf … yeah it's just deadly," she said.
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