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…
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Much can be done to improve the visitation and experience of children and their caregivers when visiting an incarcerated parent.
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…
When children witness police violence against their parents
Photo caption: Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes speaks at a rally for Jacob Blake, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Morry Gash/AP Photo When children…