Your Honour Can I Tell You My Story?

Andi Brierley's story is a challenging one, charting his progress through care, prison, and social rejection to becoming a youth justice specialist. It shows how small things can make a difference and contains insights for professionals, students, and others interested in young people in trouble.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 17 April 2019
Publisher: Waterside Press

The difficult journey of a young individual's progress through care, prison, and social rejection to becoming a youth justice specialist is vividly depicted in this captivating story. It outlines the failures to connect with and modify the author's chaotic early life, characterized by frequent moves, changing schools, fragmented parenting, and limited role models. Surrounded by crime, drugs, and perplexing adults, Andi Brierley found himself trapped in a cycle of incarceration, first in a young offender institution and then in prison. There, he developed survival instincts by thinking like a prisoner, which made his eventual release more challenging for himself and those around him. However, his determination to change propelled him forward, and others began to recognize the potential in his past. This book showcases how small actions can have a significant impact and offers valuable insights for professionals, students, and anyone interested in understanding and assisting young people who find themselves in trouble. It serves as an important addition to Waterside's collection of inspiring turnaround stories, which includes works such as Alan Weaver's So You Think You Know Me?, Ben Ashcroft's Fifty-one Moves, and Justin Rollins' The Lost Boyz.

Weight: 476g
Dimension: 158 x 234 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781909976641