Children of L.I.F.E. video clips

Children of Incarcerated Parents
	Impacts of parental incarceration
	Magnitude of problem
	Current Research
Enhanced Visitation Programs
	Impacts of enhanced visitation
	What is the 4-H LIFE Program?
Impacts of Original 4-H LIFE Program
	Overview of evaluation process
	Program Logic Model (PDF)
	Focus Group Protocol
	Focus Group Results
	Life Skills Report
	Life Skills Survey
	Video clips of fathers
Related Resources and Links 4-H LIFE Home

L.I.F.E. Program Video Clips
"The situation in the visiting room is very structured and restricted...."
"In the 4-H program we're able to hug, and just talk on a human-to-human relationship - a father-to-child relationship..."
"The 4-H program gives us an opportunity to spend . . . quality time with our kids..."
"The LIFE program here at Potosi Correctional center includes a 4-H club where the kids can meet with their dads..."
"That's what I like about 4-H. No matter what the setting is, the parents can learn as much as the kids can learn, and they can learn together...."
"It's a much more relaxed atmosphere. You can see fathers and sons and fathers and daughters doing the typical things that they do out on the street..."
"It's given me the opportunity to relate to my grandkids and my kids on a basis that I never had before..."
"We take photographs...and create a history together as parent and child..."
Prison Dads Video Clips
	"...To share some moments together. You know, a letter, that's nice, but it just doesn't express it..."

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.