L.I.F.E. The 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  LIFE Program has
positive impacts on children.

What is the 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 LIFE Program evaluated?

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LIFE program participants

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

For additional information contact:
Lynna J. Lawson, 4-H Youth Specialist
1 N. Washington Street, Farmington, Missouri 63640
Phone: 573-756-4539   Fax: 573-756-0412
Email: lawsonl@missouri.edu 

Director of the Family and Community Resource Program
Tammy Gillespie, 573-882-3316; gillespiet@missouri.edu

The project evaluators provided the research and design for this web display:
Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, dunne@missouri.edu
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 Outreach and Extension Outreach
Development Fund and the Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Initiative.


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