Life After Change
Your past matters. So does what you do next.
Life After Change provides support, resources and guidance for people rebuilding their lives after behaviour-change programmes, relationships and difficult life changes.
Accountability. Change. A future. We do not minimise domestic abuse, excuse harmful behaviour or undermine legitimate safeguarding decisions.
In immediate danger? Call 999. Experiencing domestic abuse? The National Domestic Abuse Helpline is 0808 2000 247 (Refuge, 24/7).
Why we exist
Change shouldn’t end when the programme does.
Behaviour-change programmes can help people recognise harmful behaviour, take responsibility for the harm they have caused, and begin the work of changing it. That work matters, and it is often the hardest thing a person has ever done.
But maintaining change is a much longer process than any programme. The weeks, months and years afterwards are where new patterns are tested — in parenting, in relationships, in stressful moments, and in the way people respond when things go wrong.
Life After Change exists to support what happens afterwards: sustained accountability, continued learning and honest reflection, alongside the professional systems that exist to keep people safe.
What we offer
Practical, safeguarding-led support
Our position
We don’t erase the past. We build on what happens next.
Life After Change does not certify that anybody is safe. We do not erase, minimise or re-write previous behaviour, and we do not challenge legitimate safeguarding decisions made by courts, children’s services or other professionals.
We are not a men’s-rights organisation and we do not campaign against safeguarding systems. Where there is a conflict between an individual’s wishes and the safety of a victim, survivor or child, safety comes first — always.
What we support is the long, unglamorous work that follows a programme.
- 1Accountability
- 2Change
- 3Evidence
- 4Safer Futures
The Change Community
A moderated space for people doing the work
We aim to provide a supportive, members-only peer-support forum. Members use display names rather than their legal names, community spaces will be moderated when available, and clear community rules protect victims, survivors and children.
Our Founder
Michael Everett's story
Life After Change was founded by Michael Everett, a father and campaigner with lived experience of confronting past behaviour and making a serious, sustained commitment to change.
Through his own journey, Michael discovered how little support exists for people trying to rebuild after taking responsibility and doing the work to change. His experience of the family-court system highlighted how assessments often focus heavily on historic information, sometimes repeating the same concerns for more than a decade, while sustained behavioural change goes unrecognised.
Michael created Life After Change so people living with these consequences would not have to face them alone. His vision is for a society that protects victims, expects accountability, and still leaves room for genuine, evidenced change.
“If someone genuinely accepts responsibility and demonstrates lasting change, should there be a fair and responsible path forward?”
Michael Everett, Founder
Where to go next
Find the support that fits your situation
Get support
Routes into peer support, specialist organisations and practical tools.
Fathers After Change
Support for safer parenting, family court and children’s services.
For professionals
Information and referral routes for safeguarding and family-court professionals.
Resources
A growing library of guides for maintaining change.
Safeguarding
How we keep people safe and how to raise a concern.
Support our work
Help make lasting change possible for more people.