Relationships and Future Fatherhood Programme for Young Incarcerated Men

我们提议的项目旨在解决一系列复杂的问题，帮助年轻的被监禁男子发展积极、健康的关系，并为未来的父亲身份做准备。关系和未来父亲干预活动的目的是与青年男子合作，为他们提供所需的信息和技能，使他们能够：(1)使他们能够作出更健康的性健康和生殖健康决定；(2)促进与伴侣和未来伴侣建立积极的自愿关系；(3)使他们能够对父亲的作用和责任进行批判性思考，并在他们的生活中规划未来的父亲身份。预计这将增加年轻人的责任感和幸福感，并激励他们为孩子创造和维持一个比他们自己经历的更积极的童年。这项研究是围绕3个工作包构建的。在工作包1中：我们将使用以艺术为基础的参与性方法，在项目的整个过程中支持和积极接触来自两个监狱地点(北爱尔兰和苏格兰)的青年男子。这是为了让年轻男子的专业知识也能为干预的内容和交付提供信息。该节目的一个独特特点是，它将包括一部互动视频剧(IVD-电影)，由我们与年轻人和专业媒体制作公司共同制作。我们将共同为这部电影开发一个剧本和简短的剧本，基于年轻的被监禁男子告诉我们他们在性、关系和育儿方面的真实生活经历。这部电影将采用“停下来思考”的策略。也就是说，在不同的时间点，电影会停下来，清晰地提出一个问题或困境，邀请用户想象如果他们处于类似的情况下，他们会如何反应，并做出一些决定(互动部分)。我们还将根据年轻人提供的信息制定教学计划(工作表和活动)，作为方案的一部分，这些信息将有助于学习和小组讨论。我们的参与式做法确保该方案反映出与年轻人产生共鸣的现实生活问题。这可能有助于让健康信息变得真实，并帮助他们自己思考人际关系和父爱的重要性。在工作包2：我们将向年轻人、监狱和Barnardo的工作人员(交付合作伙伴)展示最终产品(IVD和教案)。我们会约谈他们，听取他们对该计划的意见，以确保该计划切合用途，并适合在两个监狱地点推行。研究小组与专家利益攸关方小组合作，将进一步发展干预措施的长期可持续性，该小组包括监狱管理局、司法和卫生部以及其他囚犯健康和改造倡导者的代表。然后，我们将回到年轻人、监狱和Barnardo的工作人员那里，检查他们是否对干预感到满意，并评估(根据进展规则)该计划现在可以进行试点试验。我们的调查结果将确定干预措施在监狱范围内是否相关、可接受和可实施。在工作方案3中：我们将通过与审判方法和监狱专家一起详细研究如何最好地评估干预措施的效力，为这一方案的下一阶段评估做准备。我们将共同开发一个逻辑模型和适当的研究设计，以推动我们的干预措施进行有效性测试。因此，在这项研究结束时，我们将为社会上被边缘化的年轻男性群体制定一个创新计划，准备在英国两个监狱地点进行可行性和试点试验。

Our proposed project seeks to address a range of complex issues that will help young incarcerated men develop positive, healthy relationships, and prepare for future fatherhood. The aim of the Relationships and Future Fatherhood intervention is to work with the young men to provide them with the information and skills they need that will: i) empower them to make healthier sexual and reproductive health decisions; ii) promote positive consensual relationships with partners and future partners; and iii) enable critical reflection upon the roles and responsibilities of fatherhood, and to plan future fatherhood in their lives. It is anticipated this will increase the young men's sense of responsibility and well-being, and motivate them to create and maintain for their children, a more positive childhood, in relation to fathering, than they themselves experienced. This study is built around 3 work packages. In Work package 1: We will use arts-based participatory methods to support and positively engage with young men from 2 prison sites (Northern Ireland & Scotland) over the life of the project. This is so the young men's expertise can also inform the intervention content and delivery. One of the unique characteristics of the programme is that it will include an interactive video drama (IVD - film), which we will make together with the young men and a professional media production company. We will all work together to develop a script and short scenarios for the film, based on what the young incarcerated men tell us in relation to their real life experiences around sex, relationship and parenting. The film will use a 'stop-and-think' strategy. That is, at various points the film will stop and articulate a question or dilemma that invites the user to imagine how they would react, and to make some decisions, if they were in a similar situation (the interactive component). We will also develop lesson plans (worksheets and activities) from the information the young men provide that will aid learning and group discussions as part of the programme. Our participatory approach ensures that the programme reflects real-life issues that resonate with the young men. This may help make the health messages real and help them think for themselves about the importance of relationships and fatherhood.In Work Package 2: We will show the final products (IVD & Lesson Plans) to the young men and to prison and Barnardo's staff (delivery partners) in each site. We will interview them to gain their feedback on the programme to ensure it is fit-for-purpose and suitable to deliver in the two prison sites. The research team, in collaboration with the expert stakeholders group that includes representation from the Prison Services, Departments of Justice & Health, and other advocates for prisoner health and rehabilitation, will further develop the longer term sustainability of the intervention. We will then go back to the young men, prison and Barnardo's staff to check if they are happy with the intervention and assess (against progression rules) that the program is now feasible to progress to a pilot trial. The results of our inquiries will establish if the intervention is relevant, acceptable and implementable in the prison context. In Work Package 3: We will prepare for the next stage evaluation of this programme, by working through details, with trial methodology and prison experts, on how best to assess the effectiveness of the intervention. Together, we will develop a Logic Model and appropriate Research Design to take our intervention forward for effectiveness testing. So, at the end of this study we will have developed an innovative programme for a marginalised group of young men in society which will be ready to test in a feasibility and pilot trial in 2 UK prison sites.