SHiFT was set up in 2019, with an objective to demonstrate and embed opportunities for more impactful and cost-effective approaches to breaking cycles of offending and supporting behaviour change in children and young people, alongside driving wholesale system change in how society perceives and supports the children we work with.
At the heart of everything SHiFT is and does is Breaking Cycles, a dynamic and evidenced approach to enabling change created and pioneered by SHiFT's Trustee and Co-founder, Sophie Humphreys OBE.
Using the Breaking Cycles approach, SHiFT wants every child and young person caught up in, or at risk of, crime, to have one intensive, high-quality, trusting, and persistent professional relationship through which most of their needs are met: a flexible, tailored, and tenacious relationship through which professionals do whatever it takes to set children and young people up for the safe and bright futures they deserve.
