PERU’s Director, Professor Chris Fox, has become a Trustee and non-executive Director of the Coaching Inside and Out (CIAO). CIAO wants all people who’ve committed offences, or are at risk of doing so, to be offered life coaching so they can help themselves and others. It has worked with over 600 men, women and children since it was formed in 2010.

Coaching offers a different approach to rehabilitation, challenging assumptions and looking to the future, not dwelling on the past. CIAO helps clients:

• take personal responsibility for their lives and their impact on the lives of others;
• develop self-belief, inner resources and options;
• take meaningful steps to change what they want; and
• create hope.