Project

LEADCOR project aims the reduction of occupational stress through leadership development in the prison context. LEADCOR project will enhance the leadership competencies of staff aiming to promote a safe and prejudice-free learning environment for these diverse and vulnerable groups of learners.

Furthermore, it seeks to contribute to the mitigation of the tensions between prison key stakeholders (i.e.: management, prison staff, inmates and inmates’ families), enabling considerable savings in personnel budgets by reducing early retirements and absenteeism, while improving the quality of work with inmates and, ultimately, enhancing opportunities for rehabilitation.

Services

Where

Belgium
Germany
Portugal
Romania

Funding

Erasmus+ KA2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices Strategic partnerships for adult education

Objectives

Increase awareness of the importance of leadership and the negative impacts of occupational stress in the daily life of prisons.

Develop transversal skills for prison staff, such as leadership and management competencies that can positively impact the reduction of stress.

Mitigate tensions among management and staff, between staff, among staff and their families, and between staff and inmates (through stress reduction).

Enhance positively the health of prison staff members.

Expected outcomes

Have a significant impact on transversal skills development for prison staff, especially those leadership and management competencies that can positively impact the reduction of stress.

Increase the preparedness of prison staff to work in teams and different prison contexts and environments.

Improved understanding about detecting “red flags” of violent radicalisation and about the prevention and detection mechanisms currently in place in some European countries.

Promote the well-being and mental health of prison staff, since this will enable considerable savings in personnel budgets by reducing early retirements and absenteeism, while improving the quality of work with inmates and, ultimately, enhancing opportunities for rehabilitation.

Increase the preparedness of prison staff to work in teams and different prison contexts and environments.