Tagged With "Incarceration"

Two new tip sheets produced by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Technical Assistance and Strategic Dissemination Center in cooperation with the National Resource Center for Children and Families of the Incarcerated provide strategies for maintaining the bond between children and an incarcerated parent. Supporting Relationships Between Children and Their Incarcerated Parents Children who experience the incarceration of a parent, may experience trauma comparable to the loss of a parent...

Read this article by Siobhan Montgomery O'Keefe, with the center for Poverty Research at UC Davis. Incarceration in the United States has a serious impact on families and on children. Incarcerated adults have children at nearly the same rates as the non-incarcerated population, and children living in families with an incarcerated parent are more likely to experience certain hardships. https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/po st/incarceration-and-childhood -disadvantage?ut...

In 2019, more than $40 million will become available to fund community-based, culturally rooted, trauma-informed services for youth in California as alternatives to arrest and incarceration. Thousands of California youth are arrested every year for low-level offenses. Youth who are arrested or incarcerated for low-level offenses are less likely to graduate high school, more likely to suffer negative health-outcomes, and more likely to have later contact with the justice system.

This webinar from Maternal Mental Health Now will be from 12pm-1pm PT on Friday, August 23, 2019. For more information and to register, please visit: https://maternalmentalhealthnow.org/incarcerated-mothers

Supporting Families Impacted by Incarceration: A Dialogue With Experts CANTASD hosted a discussion among experts and practitioners in the field to discuss the impact of parental incarceration on children and families. The result was a 7-page report, Supporting Families Impacted by Incarceration: A Dialogue With Experts, that identifies needed resources and tools to support children and families impacted by incarceration, as well as the workforce. It also offers a practical framework of key...