Sesame Workshop Materials for Children with Incarcerated Parents Strengthen Children’s Positive Feelings about their Families
Sesame Workshop developed multimedia educational materials to support young children with incarcerated parents, including videos about visiting and a song performed by the muppets called…
Supported remote video visits as a supplement to in-person visits for children with incarcerated parents
My colleagues and I recently published an article describing an intervention that we started in 2020, called the Enhanced Visits Model (EVM). The intervention provides…
New book about how young children cope when a parent is incarcerated
When Are You Coming Home? How Young Children Cope When a Parent Goes to Jail helps answer questions about how young ones fare when a parent is…
PBS University Place focusing on children with incarcerated parents
Wisconsin Public Television’s Wednesday Night at the Lab recorded one of my talks about supporting children with incarcerated parents and their families. It will be…
See Us, Support Us 2022!
October 2022 marks the eighth year of See Us, Support Us, a month of national awareness-raising launched by the Osborne Association about the 1 in…
Black incarcerated fathers’ connections with their children
Thomas, A., Wirth, J. C., Poehlmann-Tynan, J., & Pate Jr, D. J. (2022). “When She Says Daddy”: Black Fathers’ Recidivism following Reentry from Jail. International…
Youth who experience parental arrest for alcohol- or drug-related charges show more behavior problems
● Elizabeth Johnson, Beth Planalp, and Julie Poehlmann recently published an analysis of data from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (based on…
See Us, Support Us Month: Honoring Children with Incarcerated Parents
Along with a nationwide coalition, including the Osborne Association, We Got Us Now, Arizona State University’s Center for Child Wellbeing, FWD.us and many other local and national organizations,…
New Book on Incarcerated Mothers and their Children
This new book focuses on children with incarcerated mothers, a growing and vulnerable population. It presents five studies, along with an introduction and summary. The…
Young Children Show High Levels of Physiological Stress after Witnessing Paternal Arrest
My colleagues and I studied 41 families with young children who had a father in jail in jurisdictions that had not implemented model policies regarding…
New study on resilience in children with incarcerated parents in 5 countries
The Conversation: Here’s what research says about the value of in-person visits
https://theconversation.com/65-000-pennsylvania-kids-have-a-parent-in-prison-or-jail-heres-what-research-says-about-the-value-of-in-person-visits-262185
Parents incarcerated in jail prefer contact visits with their children
This research was presented at the 2024 annual conference of the National Council on Family Relations in Bellevue, Washington by University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral students…
BRIDGE-Building Resources for Instructors to Develop Guidance for Educating Justice-Impacted Children
We are leading a new study titled BRIDGE-Building Resources for Instructors to Develop Guidance for Educating Justice-Impacted Children to explore how early childhood educators support justice-impacted…
Learn about the “Right to Hug” Court Cases in Michigan
https://www.right2hug.org Read about the Right to Hug court case in the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/the-jails-that-forbid-children-from-visiting-their-parents
New study: How parental incarceration relates to youth health vulnerabilities in the ABCD study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827324001034