Only Connect UK
Samantha Nguyen is an experienced professional in the field of criminology and community support, currently serving as Caseworker Team Manager at Only Connect UK since August 2022, where Samantha has also held roles as Senior Caseworker and Caseworker. Prior to this, Samantha worked as a Probation Service Officer at Their Majesty's Prison and Probation Service from June 2021 to August 2022, and as an Offender Resettlement Officer at Penrose from March 2021 to June 2021. Samantha's academic background includes a Master of Arts in Criminology from Wilfrid Laurier University, where involvement as both a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant was notable, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Criminal Justice from Nipissing University. Additional experience includes various roles in teaching assistance and community support, demonstrating a strong commitment to social and rehabilitative services.
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Only Connect UK
Only Connect is London's creative criminal justice charity. Our vision is a more connected society where we all choose a crime free life. The focus of our work is innovation to reduce re-offending. We work with Londoners aged 16+ with recent experience of the criminal justice system, equipping them with the necessary skills, attributes and positive networks to develop and pursue their life goals without harm. We believe in the idea of 'Handshake, not Handout'. This means our Members are enabled to design and deliver solutions to their own problems, and problems faced by other Members and their peers across London. We aim to equip a generation of people with the resilience and skills to address the challenges they face, and become positive agents for change in their communities – ‘assets’ not ‘liabilities’ for London. We achieve impact in two ways. Firstly, we work in four Londons prisons and across youth justice services in the capital. We worked with nearly 300 people in custody during 2016. Secondly, we provide ex-offenders with Membership of one of our centres in central and west London. Members are able to access creative projects, build new skills and positive relationships, and grow their confidence. Our Membership model offers one single, seamless relationship from custody to community and into education, training and employment (ETE). In 2016 we worked with 147 Members, progressing 63 into ETE.