Category: For Parents & Caregivers
NCFR Family Policy Report: How Parental Incarceration Harms Children
A new family policy report from the National Council on Family Relations, written by sociologists Sarah Wakefield and Chris Wildeman, focuses on children with incarcerated parents. It includes excellent suggestions for what can be...
New Book Focuses on Interventions for Children with Incarcerated Parents
This new volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of how parental incarceration affects children and what can be done to help them. Contributors to this book bring a wide array of tools for studying the children...
Supporting Kids of Incarcerated Parents
Read the story that the Center for Healthy Minds wrote about supporting children with incarcerated parents
Video shares new findings about intervention for children with incarcerated parents
In this video, I describe the results of a new study focusing on the evaluation of Sesame Street’s Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration materials on children with jailed parents. The study was a joint...
New Podcast about Children with Incarcerated Parents from the Institute for Research on Poverty
In this podcast episode, child psychologist Julie Poehlmann-Tynan of the University of Wisconsin–Madison talks about a new study on attachment in children who have an incarcerated father and discusses some of the factors that may lead...
Early signs of children’s behavior problems
A new study shows that toddler “dysregulation” can lead to significant behavior problems when children are six years old. The children in the study were born preterm (at or before 36 weeks gestation, which...
How to Be a Better Mum in Jail
Listen to the BBC news report on “How to be a better mum in jail” featuring an interview with Prof. Rebecca Shlafer about her doula project with incarcerated pregnant women. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055267t
Encouraging Responsible Fatherhood
A new report from the Urban Institute summarizes 6 programs for fathers with a history of incarceration. The following organizations and programs were included in the report: Kanawha Institute for Social Research and Action, Inc....