Developing an Evidence-Based Application to Improve Wellbeing and Reduce Incidents of Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons (PID902)

3.30pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour

Major Sponsor Presentation

Unilink Software are committed to helping corrections organisations drive positive social change within prisons and create more humane and enabling environments. Our company social purpose is to develop a toolkit of resources to help prisons work more smartly and use data insights to promote a culture of wellbeing and support. Our hope is that prisons can use our software and become safer and better places to encourage rehabilitation and recovery.
 
Unilink’s AIM is an analytical tool that provides operational prison staff an alternative lens to consider prisoner wellbeing and safety across their prison population. This innovative web application, based on a proof of concept used in Serco Prisons, is aligned to the evidence base for prison suicide and self-injurious behaviours and has evolved into a multiagency collaboration with other prison operators (G4S & Sodexo).

AIM analyses data collected from prisoner’s self-service interactions: dynamic factors such as visits, phone use, shop, work, education or other purposeful activities, data collected from various prisoner questionnaires and proven static factors identified from empirical research (i.e. age or previous self-harm). Any deviation in an individual’s daily routine is identified and represented on a scale from low to high through intuitive traffic light indicators with red signalling a need for intervention.
 
The data is presented in configurable dashboards showing population trends, targeted lists of those at heightened risk, filters to pivot between isolation or wellbeing aspects as well as graphs of prisoners’ behaviours longitudinally across their prison stay including anniversaries or key trigger dates.