Our Work

Co-create change to better support incarcerated mothers and their children to break cycles of disadvantage and live in safety with dignity and fulfillment.

Empower the sector, through collaboration, to engage in integrated service delivery.

Co-create an evidence-base for sustainable system change and program effectiveness to drive long-term government adoption of the Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives Model.

Transform Lives Program

The Transform Lives Program (TLP) is a trial intervention program being delivered by the TCTL Centre. The program trial will work with approximately 115 mothers and their children over 3.5 years and represents a significant opportunity to support change in the lives of the families involved while establishing an evidence based for broader implementation in the future.

Program Coaches walk alongside mothers providing continuity of care until they have sufficient stability and are sufficiently empowered to continue meeting their needs.

This support is trauma-informed and includes skill-building in job readiness, financial literacy, nutrition, housing, substance abuse recovery, mental health, relationships, parenting, and system navigation. The team work closely with the not-for-profit sector as well as key agencies including corrections, child safety, youth justice, education and health. The goal is to empower mothers to establish safe, stable and fulfilling lives, to live with dignity, and to support their children’s positive development.

Transforming Corrections Hub

The Transforming Corrections Hub houses activities designed to drive and sustain improved system-wide support for incarcerated mothers and their children. Key activities include the development of training for correctional staff and the establishment of a community of practice across the criminal justice and social service sectors to empower front line staff to provide integrated service delivery for families.

Through our Systems Change Board, comprised of senior government decision makers across key agencies, we collaborate to remove barriers to information sharing and improve integrated service delivery. The activities of the Hub are geared towards generating system-wide benefits for all women who experience incarceration and their children.

Research and Evaluation

Sitting across all activities in the TCTL Centre is a comprehensive research and evaluation program, designed to build the scientifically rigorous evidence base for what works in empowering individual-level and system-level transformation. The research will inform future scaling opportunities to benefit individuals, families and society.