My triggers and action plan for the future

• This activity is just one part of a range of resources addressing the needs of young people who have been involved, or who are at risk of being involved, in cruelty to animals. Our online assessment tool Developing a suitable intervention programme (Word 17KB) will help you create individualised intervention programmes from these resources.
• There are three activities from The incident section that should be completed beforehand: Revisiting the incident, What triggers cruelty? and Consequences of my actions.
• In this activity, the young person explores how they can avoid reoffending by managing some of the triggers identified in the activity Revisiting the incident. They complete an action plan to help them avoid reoffending and think about positive goals for themselves.

The young person:

• increases their awareness of the strategies they can use to manage their own trigger factors and prevent reoffending
• examines how the incident might have evolved differently, if these strategies had been used at the time of the incident
• creates an action plan to help them avoid offending behaviour in the future
• records any positive future goals.