Foreverfamily is an Atlanta-based organization founded in 1987 by attorney and activist Sandra Barnhill to serve the children of incarcerated parents, helping those children maintain regular ...

Garrett Baker demonstrates how the children of imprisoned parents — particularly ... worthy as success as people raised in a household without the trauma of an incarcerated parent.” Formally grounded ...

Federal data indicates that one eighth of all children in homes investigated by child welfare authorities have a parent who was recently arrested. A smaller but significant percentage of currently ...

Her young daughter was taken from her, like so many other children whose parents become incarcerated. While she was enrolled in diversion, she was not offered wraparound services, financial ...

Financial aid resources are also available for students with incarcerated parents. The National Children of the Incarcerated Scholarship Program, part of the Creative Corrections Education ...

Tammy Franklin said she knows all too well how much children feel the loss of an incarcerated parent during the holidays. Formerly incarcerated, Franklin said she connected with her children ...

Over 2.7 million American children currently have a parent who is incarcerated. Meanwhile, an increasing number of picture books have been published that represent the experiences of children with ...

More than 50,000 befriending sessions have been held with children of incarcerated parents or former offenders in the past 10 years. In prison, case workers carry out one-on-one visits with the ...