SAVN - Børn og pårørende til indsatte

What SAVN - Børn og pårørende til indsatte does

SAVN - Børn og pårørende til indsatte is a Danish nonprofit association (pårørendeforening) founded in 2005 and registered with CVR 29086141 that provides counseling, peer support, residential programs, and therapeutic services to children, partners, parents, and siblings of incarcerated persons across Denmark. The organisation is headquartered at Bygmestervej 10, København NV, led by Sekretariatsleder Elisabeth Toft Rasmussen, and targets an estimated beneficiary population of roughly 4,000 children per year (5-6% of a Danish child cohort) whose parents face imprisonment. SAVN delivers services nationwide, including inside nearly all Danish prisons and major arrest houses on behalf of Kriminalforsorgen.

SAVN's service portfolio spans direct support, residential programs, therapeutic groups, and media. Direct-support channels include a confidential telephone line (28 80 60 00, weekdays 10-15), anonymous online chat counseling launched March 2025, email support, and closed/vetted Facebook peer-support groups. Residential programming comprises approximately 10 family weekend stays (familieophold) per year rotating across three Danish venues — Klithuset in Dronningmølle, Jørgensø Kolonien in Otterup, and RAST Katrinedal in Bryrup — plus parent retreats (forældreophold) and youth weekend trips operated via the savnungdom.dk sub-brand. Therapeutic interventions include børnegrupper (10-session structured group therapy for children aged 7-11 and 12-14, led by psychologists and family therapists) and forældregrupper (6-9 session in-prison parental groups delivered 3x/year at seven main facilities and 2x/year in nearly all other Danish prisons). The supporting infrastructure is conventional rather than proprietary: a Squarespace-hosted website (savn.dk), a podcast distribution footprint (SAVN Lyd) across Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music/Audible, Deezer, and Podcast Addict, and a published materials library. Telephone counseling received RD Akkreditering 2025-2029 from RådgivningsDanmark.

SAVN generates no commercial fee revenue from beneficiaries — all services are provided free of charge, with travel reimbursement for family stays. Operating income is derived from a mixed public-private funding model: an annual Danish government operating subsidy (driftstilskud) increased from 1.9M DKK to 4.5M DKK per year under the May 2025 strafreform, supplemented by project-based grants from Danish foundations including Augustinus Fonden (200K DKK), Ole Kirk's Fond (sustaining børnegrupper), Lauritzen Fonden (50K DKK plus venue access at Klithuset), Den sociale fond (84K DKK), and GOFUS (50K DKK for a forthcoming children's book).

Name

SAVN - Børn og pårørende til indsatte

Legal name

SAVN - Børn og pårørende til indsatte (CVR: 29086141)

Website

https://savn.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SAVN is a Danish nonprofit association providing free telephone, chat, and email counseling, residential family retreats, in-prison parental groups, and therapeutic children's groups to relatives of incarcerated persons across Denmark, funded by an annual government operating grant and Danish foundation grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Family Social Services / Nonprofit Support for Relatives of Inmates

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Protection Services (GBV, Child Protection, Safeguarding) (BPADAHAF)

Keywords

• Family counseling services
• Relatives support programs
• Children therapeutic groups
• In-prison parental services
• Nonprofit counseling

Headquarters

HQ city

Hundslund

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Danish government operating grant: Annual operating subsidy (driftstilskud) from the Danish state for SAVN's counseling and support work for relatives. The government's May 2025 criminal-reform proposal more than doubles the annual operating grant from 1.9 million DKK to 4.5 million DKK, reflecting recognition that "relatives are part of a criminal reform for the first time." Recurring public funding tied to policy.
2. Foundation grants and donations: One-off and project-based donations from Danish foundations supporting specific programs. Documented grants include Augustinus Fonden (200,000 DKK for four family stays + an annual planning/training day), Ole Kirk's Fond (supporting børnegrupper and the upcoming Aalborg and Sjælland groups), Lauritzen Fonden (50,000 DKK plus free use of Klithuset), Den sociale fond (84,000 DKK for two youth weekend stays), GOFUS / former top footballers (50,000 DKK for a children's book), Erik Thunes Legat, and Carl August og Jenny Andersens Fond.
3. Free services to beneficiaries (no fee): SAVN does not charge relatives for any service — telephone counseling, chat counseling, weekend family stays, youth retreats, parental groups, børnegrupper, and materials are all provided free of charge. SAVN operates as a non-profit (forening) registered with CVR 29086141; there is no commercial fee revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels7 records

Core offering

SAVN is a Danish nonprofit association (pårørendeforening) that provides free, confidential counseling and support services to children, partners, parents and other relatives of incarcerated persons across Denmark. Its portfolio includes telephone and anonymous chat counseling, residential weekend retreats for families and parents, age-banded therapeutic children's groups (børnegrupper), youth weekend trips, in-prison parental groups (forældregrupper) delivered on behalf of Kriminalforsorgen, professional counseling for fagpersoner, moderated closed Facebook peer-support groups, and the SAVN Lyd podcast series. All services are provided at no charge to beneficiaries.

Product overview

SAVN - Børn og pårørende til indsatte operates as a Danish nonprofit pårørendeforening (relatives' association) rather than a single unified software product; its offering is a portfolio of support services and a Squarespace-hosted informational website (savn.dk). The core services include Telefonrådgivning (phone counseling) and Chatrådgivning (chat counseling) as the primary direct-support channels, complemented by residential programs (Familieophold, Forældreophold, Weekendture for unge), therapeutic Børnegrupper (children's groups), in-prison Forældregrupper for indsatte run on behalf of Kriminalforsorgen, Faglig rådgivning for professionals, the SAVN Lyd podcast/video library, peer-support Lukkede Facebookgrupper, and a Materialer og litteratur resource library. The website (savn.dk) ties these offerings together by providing information, sign-up forms, an FAQ, news, and access to podcasts and materials.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SAVN Ungdom: Youth-focused sub-brand of SAVN, providing weekend trips and support for young people aged 13-18 with a parent or sibling in prison. Operates its own website at savnungdom.dk.
• SAVN LYD

Products and services

• Telefonrådgivning (Phone counseling) Confidential telephone counseling line for pårørende (relatives of inmates) and fagpersoner (professionals), open weekdays 10:00-15:00 at 28 80 60 00. SMS callback available via 28 76 60 00. Anonymous calling from blocked numbers supported. Free of charge.
• Chatrådgivning (Chat counseling) Anonymous browser-based chat counseling for relatives and professionals affected by imprisonment. Conversation disappears when the browser is closed. Users may optionally provide anonymous statistical data. Free of charge.
• Familieophold (Family weekend stays)

Named customers11 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered strategic — operational mandate holder, local delivery partner, awareness/educational content partner, forum host and co-panelist at folkemødet, forum host at folkemødet, co-panelist at policy events, co-panelist / moderator partner and awareness partner.

• Danmarks Fængsler / Kriminalforsorgen (Danish Prison and Probation Service)strategic — operational mandate holderStrategic or Co-development PartnerSAVN delivers forældregrupper (parental groups for incarcerated parents) on behalf of Danmarks Fængsler. The program runs three times a year at Vestre Fængsel, Blegdamsvejens Arrest, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense, Helsingør and Kolding arrest facilities, and twice yearly in all other Danish prisons (excluding Herstedvester and Nørre Snede). Each cycle brings 6-8 incarcerated parents together for 6-9 sessions led by family therapists/psychologists.
• Kirkens Korshær Horsenslocal delivery partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-runs a confidential youth group (frirum) for ages 14-20 in Horsens with a family member in prison; sessions at Fugholm 1, Tuesdays 16.30-19.00, free of charge. Coordinated by Kirkens Korshær's Kirstine Madsen; SAVN contributes content expertise and a young peer (Tobias) who himself has a relative in prison.
• Erbil Kaya (Forsvarsadvokat)awareness/educational content partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerOne of Denmark's most prominent defense attorneys; co-produced a three-part "Spørg forsvarsadvokaten" Q&A video series with SAVN, answering questions sourced from SAVN's Facebook/Instagram followers about visiting rules, defense lawyer types, etc. Also a panelist at SAVN's Folkemødet 2023 debate.
• Det Kriminalpræventive Råd (Danish Crime Prevention Council)forum host and co-panelist at folkemødetGTM or Marketing PartnerHosted SAVN's 2025 Folkemødet debate "Børn uden ret til familieliv — mens mor og far er i fængsel" and "Skaber statens gældsinddrivelsesmetoder ny kriminalitet?" in their tent (A8). Council chair Erik Christensen joined SAVN's panel.
• Kriminalforsorgen (Danish Prison and Probation Service) — Folkemødet tent partnerforum host at folkemødetGTM or Marketing PartnerHosted SAVN's 2025 Folkemødet debate "Debat: Straffer vi børn for forældrenes fængsling?" in their tent (A19), with Kriminalforsorgen director Ina Eliasen on the panel; also SAVN's 2023 debate in their tent.
• Justitia (think tank)co-panelist at policy eventsGTM or Marketing PartnerThink-tank represented by chefkonsulent Christoffer Badse at SAVN's 2025 Folkemødet panel; Justitia has identified Nordic-comparison improvements for relatives' rights referenced in SAVN's coverage.
• Børn & Samfundco-panelist / moderator partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerFounded by Cecilia Decara, who moderated SAVN's 2025 Folkemødet debate and serves on the panel alongside SAVN's sekretariatsleder Elisabeth Toft Rasmussen.
• Camilla Arlien (documentary director)awareness partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerDirector of the CPH:DOX documentary "HVIS JEG DØR I DAG" about Jannik and his relatives. SAVN's sekretariatsleder Elisabeth Toft Rasmussen publicly endorsed and recommended the film — a visibility partnership around a screening tied to SAVN's mission.
• DR (Danmarks Radio)awareness partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerPublic broadcaster seeking families with children of inmates for a new program series examining the situation and what helps; DR shared a call via savn.dk (6 November) to recruit participants.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Kirkens Korshær (Salvation Army Denmark): Large Danish faith-based social-services NGO providing shelter, counseling and outreach. Already a SAVN delivery partner in Horsens; broadly comparable as a Danish social-services nonprofit with overlapping beneficiary populations.
• KFUK's Sociale Arbejde: Danish social-services organization providing counseling and residential programs for vulnerable families and youth. Comparable nonprofit service model (counseling, residential stays, casework) but operating across a wider set of vulnerable populations.
• Børns Vilkår: Denmark's largest children's welfare NGO operating the BørneTelefonen helpline. Comparable Danish social-service nonprofit scale and child-welfare mission, but broader scope and no specific inmate-relative focus.
• Red Barnet (Save the Children Denmark): Large Danish children's rights and welfare NGO within the global Save the Children network. Comparable as a major Danish child-advocacy nonprofit but with substantially broader scope than SAVN's inmates'-relatives niche.

Direct peers

• Children Heard and Seen: UK charity specifically supporting children and families affected by imprisonment, providing 1:1 support, group programs and advocacy. Closest international analogue to SAVN's mission and beneficiary population.
• Families Outside: Scotland-wide charity delivering information, support and advocacy to families affected by imprisonment. Directly comparable service mix (helpline, family support, policy voice) and beneficiary focus on relatives of prisoners.
• Action for Prisoners' Families: UK charity providing information, peer support and advocacy for prisoners' families, including children. Operates a helpline and family days analogous to SAVN's telefonrådgivning and familieophold.

Regional players

• Stiftelsen WayBack: Norwegian foundation supporting children and families of incarcerated parents, including prison visitation support and family programs. Closest Nordic peer with a directly comparable mission in a different national jurisdiction.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/groups/SAVN.lukket.gruppe

Compliance2 records

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Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

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