“In Kenya they have a greeting, and that greeting is, ‘How are the children?’’’ said Pastor Patricia Sealy during a panel on day one of the inaugural National Children of Incarcerated Parents conference in Phoenix.
If the children are well, then all is well, Seely explained. For those at the conference, the concern is that the children could be well if the American criminal justice system made efforts to be family focused.
Attracting around 300 attendees from all over the U.S. and a handful of other countries, the conference brings together advocates and providers from across the social services sector. The issue was once the subject of a significant mentoring push by the federal government, and late in his last term, President Barack Obama called attention to it when he became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison.
[For more on this story by Christie Renick, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...rents-underway/30593]
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