Conducting Focus Groups in the Prison

Conducting Focus Groups in the Prison – Pazardzhik

Thursday, 25 June 2015 08:27 |

Focus Group with the workers in the Prison was conducted on 24 June 2015 in Prison – Pazardzhik. This was within Project “Studying the Training Needs of Workers in Prison for Applying Specialized Resocializing Programmes for Individuals with Psychiatric Disorders and Individuals with Low Intellectual Capacity”. The event is part of the survey of the training needs of workers in the prisons in Bulgaria for applying specialized resocializing programmes for individuals with psychiatric disorders and individuals with low intellectual capacity.

Twelve workers from the prison and two experts-facilitators from Fund IGA took part in the Focus Group.

It was conducted according to methods specially developed for it. The participants were introduced to the basic goals and activities of the project and shared their points of view on all questions related to their needs of training. Part of the Focus Group was the conduction of a discussion on two main topics: the existing systems for training in prisons as well as the need for additional knowledge and skills for work with individuals with psychiatric disorders and the existing evaluations and programmes for work with individuals with low intellectual capacity. The participants made suggestions for future trainings and specific topics to be included in them. Focus Groups will be conducted in all prisons in the country. After they finish in August a general report will be made.

The Project has been funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 under Programme BG15 “Corrective services including non-custodial sanctions”.