1. Effects of Children with incarcerated parents
By: LaToya Mamon
SWK 633 Advocacy Project
November 13, 2017

2. The Incarcerated Parent and Child Relationship
Key Social problem
The Incarcerated Parent and Child Relationship

3. POOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Key social problem
POVERTY/
TOXIC STRESS
POOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
AGGRESSION
DEPRESSION
Trauma
SUBSTANCE ABUSE

4. Community agency Department of Children and Family Services
Hope House (Washington)
The Children of Incarcerated Parents Project (Oregon)

5. Policy concerns
The amount of contact children have with their incarcerated parents
Coping Skills
Living Arrangements
Parent-Child Relationship

6. Current Evidence-Trauma of incarceration
More than 1.7 million children in the United States with an Incarcerated parents
One in 43 (2.3 percent) American children has parent incarcerated in state or federal prison
Approximately 10 million -one in eight- of the nations children have experienced parental incarceration in some point in their life.
22% of the children of state inmates and 16% of the children of federal inmates are under five years old.

7. goals and specific changes
The Importance of Family
Reunite Families
Set up a program within the prisons (PCP)- Program for Caring Parents
Funding (Community, Fundraisers, Churches)
Screenings (Convictions)
Parenting Program
Specific Classes (Offender Reentry Programming)

8. Objectives/recommendations goals/NASW Speaks
To maintain communication among children, caregivers, and incarcerated parents
To encourage parents and caregivers to seek services for the child
To improve the parent child relationship by providing quality education programs
Facilitate a child’s ability to maintain regular contact between an incarcerated parent and minor child
Educate caregivers about services available for important health checks
Develop a core curriculum that is approved education programs

9. Stakeholders The Matlock Family (Shreveport, La)
St. Peter Baptist Church (Benevolent Offering)
Women on the Mission Group (Fundraisers)
The Parent
The Child

10. Tools to change Parenting Programs Building skills
Faith Based Programs
Big Sister’s Program

11. Social problem stance/newspaper article
Media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and etc)
Community Awareness such as Rallies, Brochures
Church Congregations
Are Relationships with our Children really that Important?

12. Impact
Practice
The lives of your clients
Social and Economic Justice
Parental Reunification for the parent and child to FORM or MAINTAIN a strong attachment

13. References
Arditti, J. A. (2012). Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers. New York: NYU Press.
Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2015) Child Welfare practice with families affected by parental incarceration. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Children’s Bureau.
Children of Incarcerated Parents task force. (2011).
Glaze, E. Lauren & Maruschak, M. Laura (2010). Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report.
Mamon, Latoya. (2017) Annotated Bibliography. Effects of Children with Incarcerated parents
Synder, Z. K. (2012). Keeping Families Together. The Importance of Maintaining Mother-child Contact for Incarcerated Women. Women & Criminal Justice, 19(1), doi: /