This document discusses the issue of incarcerated parents and their children in the United States. It provides statistics showing that over 2.7 million children in the US have an incarcerated parent. Children with incarcerated parents are more likely to experience problems like delinquency, low academic achievement, emotional and behavioral issues. The document outlines a student group's strategy to create awareness and raise funds for scholarships for children of incarcerated parents. It summarizes their efforts to start a school club, plan a 5K walk, and donate funds raised to an organization called ScholarCHiPs.
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Presentation by Dori Rivkin, Senior Research Scholar and Research Team Leader, Family Group, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Israel's leading center for applied social research.
Presented online to Haruv Virtual Summer Series, Wednesday, June 24, 2020.
Noni K. Gaylord-Harden, Ph.D. - “Shifting the Narrative on Development in You...youth_nex
Noni K. Gaylord-Harden - Associate Professor of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 1 - "Culturally-Grounded Approaches to Positive Youth Development"
Cultural beliefs, traditions, and pride can play an integral role in promoting positive development for youth from ethnic minority backgrounds. In this panel, we will hear about connections between cultural values and healthy development for American Indian youth, culturally-linked coping strategies among African American teens, and the benefits of emphasizing cultural pride in natural mentoring relationships.
"It works!" "I don't believe there are downsides to spanking!", "Spanking is not hitting and certainly not abuse!" , "It is a normal and necessary part of parenting in my community!". These arguments and many others are commonly used by parents to defend their use of spanking as a discipline technique. While many parents are continuing to spank their children, researchers are starting to reveal meta-analyses that conflict with the ideas behind the arguments in favor of spanking. This 90-minute webinar will provide service professionals with an in-depth look at spanking, the research behind it, and its effects on children's development.
Are children with disabilities more likely to experience abuse and neglect? I...mjbinstitute
Presentation by Dori Rivkin, Senior Research Scholar and Research Team Leader, Family Group, the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Israel's leading center for applied social research.
Presented online to Haruv Virtual Summer Series, Wednesday, June 24, 2020.
Noni K. Gaylord-Harden, Ph.D. - “Shifting the Narrative on Development in You...youth_nex
Noni K. Gaylord-Harden - Associate Professor of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 1 - "Culturally-Grounded Approaches to Positive Youth Development"
Cultural beliefs, traditions, and pride can play an integral role in promoting positive development for youth from ethnic minority backgrounds. In this panel, we will hear about connections between cultural values and healthy development for American Indian youth, culturally-linked coping strategies among African American teens, and the benefits of emphasizing cultural pride in natural mentoring relationships.
"It works!" "I don't believe there are downsides to spanking!", "Spanking is not hitting and certainly not abuse!" , "It is a normal and necessary part of parenting in my community!". These arguments and many others are commonly used by parents to defend their use of spanking as a discipline technique. While many parents are continuing to spank their children, researchers are starting to reveal meta-analyses that conflict with the ideas behind the arguments in favor of spanking. This 90-minute webinar will provide service professionals with an in-depth look at spanking, the research behind it, and its effects on children's development.
Presentation given at Holly Ridge Elementary school to audience of fathers interested in signing up for the Watch Dog Dads program to increase father involvement in the schools.
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Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 4 - "Youth of Color as Agents of Change"
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability
that includes deficits in:
• Social Communication
• Social Interaction
• Repetitive Behaviors
Introduces affected parts of the brain, awareness, prevalence, and characteristics.
Presentation given at Holly Ridge Elementary school to audience of fathers interested in signing up for the Watch Dog Dads program to increase father involvement in the schools.
Your Candid Friend is a national level Tele-counseling service that promises to guide the Adolescents in India in the right direction by exposing them to an option of counseling by certified and well informed counselors across the country.
Adilka Pimentel and Darian X - Make the Road NYyouth_nex
Part of the Youth-Nex Conference: Youth of Color Matter: Reducing Inequalities Through Positive Youth Development #YoCM15
Panel 4 - "Youth of Color as Agents of Change"
We are turning to the real experts for this session – civically and culturally-minded youth. Teens from Make the Road New York (MRNY) and Whatever It Takes (WIT) will speak truth to power in discussions of challenges and opportunities in their communities.
MRNY youth will discuss how they have organized around issues like police accountability, and teens from WIT will share their entrepreneurial approaches to addressing discrimination.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability
that includes deficits in:
• Social Communication
• Social Interaction
• Repetitive Behaviors
Introduces affected parts of the brain, awareness, prevalence, and characteristics.
Reading With Dad: Serving Incarcerated Parents and Families- Information on a partnership piloted by the Grafton-Midview Public Library with the Grafton Reintegration Center and Grafton Correctional Institution presented at the 2015 Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth.
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"The Economic Case for Investments in Young Children"
A presentation to the 25th Anniversary Speak Out for Kids Luncheon in St. Louis, MO - held by Citizens for Missouri's Children on 10/29/09.
We all have hidden biases (both favorable and unfavorable) that influence our behavior. How do we become aware of our biases? How can we show respect to the students/families from diverse cultures that we serve? Kazue McGregor teaches about Cultural Competency. Cultural competency is the ability to effectively deliver services to meet our client’s social, cultural, and sometimes linguistic needs and show families that you truly care.
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"The Economic Case for Investments in Young Children"
Rob Grunewald's presentation to the Speak Out for Kids Luncheon in St. Louis, MO on October 29, 2009.
In order to have citizens capable of creating peace in the world, we need stable families that instill values and capacities for peacebuilding. Marriage and the family serve a unique and essential purpose for optimum human development. Research is showing that straying from that purpose weakens the family, increasing disadvantages for the next generation and the future. Clarifying the value of the family will help us strengthen this essential building block of peace.
2. Statistics from the Sentencing Project on the
United States revealed that in January 2016, there
were more than 2.2 million people imprisoned in
the U.S.
TEXAS RANKED HIGHEST WITH A
RATE OF 171,249 (Thomas)
OVERCRIMINALIZED SOCIETY
3. Collateral Damages
"According to the Sentencing Project, in 2009, an estimated 1.7
million children in the U.S. Had an incarcerated parent.” (Rollins)
4. In ONLY 4 Years… That number has
increased to…
OVER 2.7 MILLION
5. National Ripple Effect
national stats on children and incarcerated parents
More than 2.7 million children in the U.S. have an
incarcerated parent and approximately 10 million children
have experienced parental incarceration at some point in
their lives.
One in 9 African American children (11.4%), 1 in 28
Hispanic children (3.5%), and 1 in 57 white children (1.8%)
in the United States have an incarcerated parent. (Phillips)
6. National Ripple Effect
Nationally, there are more than 120,000 incarcerated mothers
and 1.1 million incarcerated fathers who are parents with minor
children (ages 0-17). (Harrison)
A national study estimated that of parents arrested, 67% were
handcuffed in front of their children, 27% reported weapons
drawn in front of their children, 4.3% reported a physical
struggle, and 3.2% reported the use of pepper spray (Raimon).
7. National Ripple Effect
In 2004, approximately 59% of parents in a state correctional
facility and 45% of parents in a federal correctional facility
reported never having had a personal visit from their children
(Pew).
Having an incarcerated parent can increase the likelihood that a
young person becomes involved in antisocial and delinquent
behavior (ARI)
8. Invisible Prison of Shame and
Trauma
• Delinquency
• Low Grades
• Difficulty Focusing
• Failure to Graduate
• Bullying & Gang
• Impedes Ability To
Pursue The American
Dream of Upward
Mobility
• Emotional Problems
• Behavioral Problems
• Self-Harming
• Addiction
• Eating Disorders
• Low Self-esteem
• Inability to Trust
• Stigma of Guilt
(Pew Trust)
9. There is a WAY OUT…
There is Hope……A social justice orientation allows
students to make a difference in the lives of others, and
to affect positive change through advocacy and social
action.
10. In response to
overwhelming and
unmet needs:
Given the level of family
disruption we experience,
mentoring is a powerful
and positive intervention
that can provide caring,
trusting adults to those
whose parents are absent.
17. • Like us on FB (Society’s Forgotten Children
• Follow us on Twitter USTSFC
• Watch TEDx
• Like our Website
(societysforgottenchildren.weebly.com
• But more importantly you can
18. • Start a club
• Plan a fun run
• Create awareness
• Be A Difference Maker
19. Incarcerated Parents Project" Holds Kick-O
• By Creating a School Club
• Planning a 5K Walk
• Donating Funds this year
• We help ensure the academic
future of a child whose parent
is incarcerated.
20. References
1 Comment from The World’s Children’s Prize Foundation at the 2004 World’s Children’s Prize award ceremony.
2 Phillips, S.D., Errantly, A., Keeler, G.P., Costello, J.E., An gold, A., Johnston, D., et al. (2006). Disentangling the risks: Parent criminal
justice
involvement and children’s exposure to family risks. Criminology and Public Policy, 5, 677–702.
3 Raimon, M., Lee, A., & Genty, P. (2009). Sometimes Good Intentions Yield Bad Results: ASFA’s Effect on Incarcerated Parents and Their
Children.
4 Hairston, C.F. (2007). Focus on the children with incarcerated parents: A overview of the research literature. Annie E. Casey Foundation.
5 The Pew Charitable Trusts: Pew Center on the States. (2010). Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility. Washington,
DC: Author.
6 Correctional Association of New York. (2009). Women in Prison Fact Sheet. New York, New York: Women in Prison Project.
7 Pew Charitable Trusts. (2010).
8 Phillips, S. D. (1998). Programming for children of female offenders. Proceedings from 4th National Head Start Research Conference.
Washington, DC.
9 Appendix Table 10, p. 18, in Glaze, L., & Maruschak, L. (2010). Parents in prison and their children. Bureau of Justice Statistics.