Living Interactive Family Education Program

LIFE program participants

Parental incarceration can lead to
negative impacts on children.

Enhanced visitation programs
can help children overcome
these negative impacts.

The 4-H LIFE Program has
positive impacts on children.

What is the 4-H LIFE Program?

How do enhanced visitation programs help?

What are the negative impacts on children?

How many children have incarcerated parents?

How was impact of the 4-H LIFE Program evaluated?

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4-H LIFE Home

The purpose of this web-based display is to describe the impacts of the original 4-H LIFE Program on the children who participate. The 4-H LIFE Program offers the children of incarcerated parents the chance to visit with their parents in an enhanced environment.

Tammy Gillespie, director of the 4-H LIFE Program, can be reached at 573-882-3316 or gillespiet@missouri.edu.

The original 4-H LIFE project evaluators provided the research and design for this web display.
Dr. Elizabeth Dunn and J. Gordon Arbuckle.

Video footage by William Helvey, Ag. & Extension Information Center, Lincoln University, and
Bob Nash, Mineral Area TCRC Coordinator. Photography by Tammy Gillespie, Lynna Lawson,
Rick Secoy, and Rob Wilkerson. Graphics and web development by Jeanne Bintzer.

This program is supported by the University of Missouri Extension and the
Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Initiative.

University of Missouri Extension does not discriminate on the basis
of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age,
disability or status as a Vietnam-era veteran in employment or programs.