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Professional resources

Articles, curriculum, guidebooks and reports those who work with families impacted by incarceration.

• Activities to Promote Racial and Cultural Awareness
  article by Barbara Biles with the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory part of PBS series called “Precious Children."
   

• Building Strong Families
  University of Missouri Extension - A thirteen-topic curriculum which helps families build strengths, face challenges and make choices using hands-on activities.

• Center for Community Alternatives
  Resources dealing with incarceration

• Children, Families and the Criminal Justice System (PDF)
  A research brief from University of Illinois at Chicago

• Children of Incarcerated Parents: Cumulative Risk & Children's Living Arrangements (PDF)
  Columbia University School of Social Work and University of Michigan, written by Elizabeth Inez Johnson & Jane Waldfogel.

• Children of Incarcerated Parents (PDF)
  California Research Bureau, written by Charlene Wear Simmons.

• Children of Incarcerated Parents (PDF)
  Report by Virginia Commission on Youth.

• Children of Incarcerated Parents Fact Sheet (PDF)
  Fact sheet from Family & Corrections Network

• Children With Incarcerated Parents
  A wealth of materials from the Annie E. Casey Foundation
   

• E-Answers
  Online resource of information and research from land grant universities across the United States.

• Ella Mazel's "And Don't Call Me a Racist"
  A treasury of quotes on the past, present, and future of the color line in America.

• Every Door Closed: Fact Sheet Series
  A collection of eight Agenda Action Fact Sheets on barriers facing parents with criminal records by National Institute of Corrections.

• Family to Family Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care
  A wealth of materials (videos and PDFs) from the Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Food and Nutrition Information Center
  Nutrition and health resources sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

• Foster Care in Missouri (PDF)
  Center for Family Policy and Research.

• Going to Work with a Criminal REcord: Lessons from the Fathers at Work Initiative by Dee Wallace and Laura Wyckoff, 2008 (PDF)
  Offers lessons for workforce organizations in helping men released from prison find jobs, including how to build relationships with employers, parole officers, and child support agencies. Includes résumé tips, interview scenarios, and other tools.
  

• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (PDF)
  North Carolina Family and Consumer Sciences report.

• Helping Inmate Moms Keep in Touch
  Florida Department of Corrections

• Incarcerated Parents and Their Children
  Special Report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, written by Christopher Mumola

• Invisible Victims: The Children of Women in Prison (PDF)
  Voices for Children, Canada

• Literacy Behind Prison Walls
  National Adult Literacy Survey; National Center for Education Statics

• Literacy Resources
  A list of national and Missouri literacy resources

• Marriage Resources
  Utah Marriage.  Research-based ideas for dating and marriage preparation, facts about marriage and more.

• Making Ends Meet
  University of Missouri Poverty at Issue.  A PowerPoint presentation to help local leaders discover what it takes to make ends meet.

• Meth and Oral Health (PDF)
  Information about methamphetamine (meth) use and its effect on oral health.

• National Mental Health Information Center
  Children's mental health information from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

• Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children
  US Dept of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report

• Partnerships Between Corrections and Child Welfare, Collaboration for Change, Part Two (PDF)
  Describes ways that the criminal justice system and the child welfare system can work together to improve and strengthen family and community bonds from the Annie E. Cssey Foundation

• Poverty Quiz
  Test your knowledge about poverty in Missouri.

• Sample Memorandum of Agreement
  MS State University Extension

• State of Recidivism - The Revolving Door of America's Prisons (PDF)
  Pew Center on the States, Public Safety Performance Project, April 2011

• Tackling the Tough Skills
  A fun, innovative and highly interactive life skills curriculum that helps hard-to-reach adults or teens prepare for success in work and life.

• U.S. Census Bureau Fact Finder
  A searchable site providing population and housing statistics on state, county and city/town levels.

• Waiting for Mommy (PDF)
  Giving a voice to the hidden victims of imprisonment by
  Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System, Canada

Last Revised 11-Apr-12