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Foreverfamily is an Atlanta-based organization founded in 1987 by the attorney and activist Sandra Barnhill to serve the children of incarcerated parents, helping those children maintain regular ...
Children with a parent in prison face a higher risk of social, economic, educational and behavioral challenges. There’s much ...
A District-based nonprofit that helps college-bound students of incarcerated parents reach their education goals is getting us uplifted. Currently 2.7 million American children have a parent who ...
An opportunity to support children whose parents can't be around because they are behind bars is on the calendar in Houston.
During the five-day Sun Rise, children of incarcerated parents had a chance to explore the arts as a tool for healing trauma. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA) From gymnastics to science, there are camps for ...
Commentary Life Changing: Mentoring Children With an Incarcerated Parent As a board member for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward County—and a former Big Brother—I recognize the substantial ...
Giving parents a voice “Making Reading Memories” is one of several The Literacy Link initiatives aimed at addressing relationships between incarcerated parents and their children.
Broward public school students created a nonprofit to support children with incarcerated parents after their father was imprisoned for insider trading.
In 2017, St. Clair County Jail completely banned people from visiting their incarcerated loved ones, forcing families to pay steep fees for low-quality phone and video calls. Children and parents ...
A 2015 report from Child Trends estimated that there were 5 million American children who’d had a parent imprisoned at some point in their lives.
WASHINGTON — A District-based nonprofit that helps college-bound students of incarcerated parents reach their education goals is getting us uplifted. Currently 2.7 million American children have ...
In total, incarcerated parents reported about 1.25 million minor children, meaning “the number of people in state prison almost exactly mirrors the number of impacted minor children.” ...