The Directory of Programs Serving Children and Families of the Incarcerated is an update of the Directory Programs Serving Families of Adult Offenders, dated October 2001. This revised directory lists programs in the United States and around the world that offer services specifically for children and families of adult offenders.
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Programs Offering National Services
Alliance for Children and Families
Area Served: U.S. & Canada
Parent Organization: Alliance for Children and Families
Telephone: 1-800-221-3726
Address: 11700 W. Lake Park Dr.
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Email: info@alliance1.org
Website: www.alliance1.org
Established: 1911
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: No
The Alliance for Children and Families, a national membership association, provides services to nonprofit child and family serving and economic empowerment organizations. Motivated by a vision of a healthy society and strong communities, we work to strengthen America’s nonprofit sector and through advocacy assure the sector’s continued independence. The Alliance, formed by the 1998 merger of Family Service America and the National Association of Homes and Services for Children, helps member agency leaders successfully meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges by drawing upon its more than 90 years of leadership in the human services community.
Angel Tree
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: Prison Fellowship
Telephone: 800-552-6435, 800-55-ANGEL
Address: 44180 Riverside Parkway
Lansdowne, VA 20176
Email: angeltree@pfm.org
Website: http://www.prisonfellowship.org/about/angel-tree/
Established: 1982
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Provide Christmas gifts and the gospel message to children on behalf of their incarcerated parents in partnership with local churches. Programs throughout the year include summer camping and mentoring.
Big Brothers Big Sisters National Office
Area Served: National
Address: 230 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 567-7000
Fax: (215) 567-0394
Email: actioncenter@bbbs.org
Website: https://www.bbbs.org
Established: 1927
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We are a one-to-one mentoring organization for children.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Telephone: 1-888-887-2447
Address: 450 East John Carpenter Frwy
Irving, TX 75062
Email: bbbstx@bbbstx.org
Website: https://www.bbbstx.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1927
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We are a one-to-one mentoring organization for children.
Children of Incarcerated Parents Mentoring
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: Notre Dame Mission Volunteers-AmeriCorps
Telephone: 410-532-6864
Address: 403 Markland Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21212
Email: natloffice@ndmva.org
Website: www.ndmva.org
Secondary Office: 403 Markland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21212
Established: 1992
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Notre Dame – AmeriCorps’s CHIP program provides one-on-one mentoring for children affected by parental incarceration.NDA also partners with area schools and social service agencies to provide educational support for youth and adults.
Family Services
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: Aleph Institute
Telephone: 305-864-5553
Address: 9540 Collins Avenue, P.O. Box 547127
Surfside, FL 33154
Email: receptionist@aleph-institute.org
Website: www.aleph-institute.org
Established: 1981
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We assist the Jewish families and children of those currently incarcerated. We connect them with local community support, assist with travel expenses to visit the inmate and set up support between the families of those incarcerated.
Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: Girl Scouts of USA
Telephone: (800) GSUSA 4 U (800-478-7248) or (212) 852-8000
Address: 420 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Email: misc@girlscouts.org
Website: http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/our_partners/initiatives/gsbb.asp
Established: 1992
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The goals of the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (GSBB) program are to lessen the impact of parental separation due to incarceration, to foster the personal and social development of girls and their mothers, and to provide girls with the opportunity to participate with their parents in the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. Parents and their daughters take an active leadership role in the planning and implementation of Girl Scout program activities and also participate in facilitated discussions about family life, conflict resolution, and the prevention of violence and drug abuse. After release, parents and daughters can continue to participate in troop meetings in their communities, making Girl Scouting a consistent presence in their lives.
Hope House
Area Served: National with a special focus on the DC Metro Area
Telephone: 301-408-1452
Address: PO Box 60682
Washington, DC 20039
Email: cfennelly@aol.com
Website: www.hopehousedc.org
Established: 1998
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Hope House has three main goals: (1) to strengthen families and in particular, the relational bonds between children and their fathers imprisoned far from home; (2) to reduce the isolation, stigma, shame and risk these families experience when fathers and husbands are imprisoned; and (3) to raise public awareness about this most at-risk population.
KidsMates Inc.
Area served: National
Parent Organization: KidsMates Inc.
Address: 21218 St Andrews Blvd, #720 Boca Raton FL 33433 United States
Email: info@kidsmates.org
Website: www.kidsmates.org
Established: 2017
Volunteer/ internship Opportunities: Yes
KidsMates Inc. is a national non-profit organization co-founded by children of incarcerated parents. KidsMates Inc.’s advocacy raises awareness about the silent American epidemic of parental incarceration and its lifelong negative impacts to affected children. The organization implements initiatives aimed at improving outcomes, fostering resilience, and empowering children of incarcerated parents. Visit their website to find out more.
INDIA VISION FOUNDATION
Website: https://indiavisionfoundation.org
Address: 56 Uday Park (Basement), New Delhi-110049
Phone number: +91 011-47100700 / 702 / 705
Email: communication@indiavisionfoundation.org.in
Established: August 1,1994
Institute on Violence, Abuse, & Trauma
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: NoneTelephone: 858-527-1860
Address: 10065 Old Grove Road, Suite 101
San Diego, CA 92131
Email: forensics@alliant.edu
Website: http://ivatcenters.org/
Established: 2005
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Professional services offered at IVAT include conducting child custody evaluations, psychological testing, forensic evaluations, and conducting treatment of a variety of emotional and behavioral problems. Additional direct services available through IVAT include individual, family, re-unification, and group therapy; supervised visitation; and parenting skills classes. Therapy is provided to people with a variety of different problems in our comprehensive program. All services are provided on a sliding fee scale.
The Messages Project
Area Served: National
Address: PO Box 8325 9711
8th View St. Suite 11
Norfolk, VA 23503
E-mail: list@themessagesproject.org
Website: https://themessagesproject.org/
Phone: No Phone
Established: 1999
Volunteer Opportunities? Yes
The Messages Project is focused on the children left behind when a parent is incarcerated prisons in Virginia, Nebraska, and Missouri several times a year to create videotapes or DVDs from incarcerated parents to their children. The recordings are mailed home to children and families, often with a book that was read as part of the message.
National Parents and Families Network
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: NIPFN
Telephone: 717-943-2492
Address: P.O. Box 6745
Harrisburg, PA 17112
Website: https://www.nationalfamilysupportnetwork.org/standards-of-quality
Email: Cstuartconsult@aol.com
Established: 2004
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
1. Responsible Parenting Training and Consulting 2. Re-Entry, Recidivism Training and Consulting 4. Community Engagement Training and Consulting. 5. Curriculum Writing and Consulting 6. Counseling and Consulting on Children of Incarcerated Parents. 7. Lecturing and Workshops on issues of Incarceration as it pertains to the family unit and society as a whole. 8. Consulting and Training on how to work with the prison and correctional system. 9. Consulting and Training on Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents.
Parenting & Family Healing
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: Bethesda Family Services Foundation
Telephone: 570-523-0605
Address: 88 Bull Run Crossing, Suite 1
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Email: staff@bfsf.org
Website: www.bfsf.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1995
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Provide parenting and family healing to incarcerated individuals; train counselors, educators, and others in Relational Healing and Peer Governance Models.
Prisoner Visitation and Support
Area Served: National
Telephone: 215-241-7117
Address: 1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Email: pvs@afsc.org
Website: www.prisonervisitation.org
Established: 1968
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
PVS is the only nationwide, interfaith visitation program given access by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Defense to visit all federal and military prisoners. We have 300 volunteers across the U.S. who regularly visit at over 90 federal and military prisons
PrisonMail.org
Area Served: National/International
Telephone: 814-742-7500
Address: PO Box 1602
Altoona, PA 16603
Email: info@prisonmail.org
Website: www.prisonmail.org
Established: 2004
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: No
PrisonMail simplifies communication and encourages constant correspondence between prisoners and their families and loved ones. It uses the convenience of the internet to allow those with incarcerated loved ones to send messages on a regular basis.
National CURE
Area Served: National
Address: PO Box 2310
Washington, DC 20013
Email: cure@curenational.org
Website: www.curenational.org
Phone: 202-789-2126
Established: 1972
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: No
International CURE organizes people incarcerated and their loved ones to bring about prison reform. These reforms will reduce crime.
U.S. Dream Academy
Area Served: National
Telephone: 410-772-7143
Address: 10400 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 300
Columbia, MD 21044
Email: info@usdreamacademy.org
Website: www.usdreamacademy.org
Established: 1998
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Provides children in grades 3 through 8 daily after-school programming that includes on-line academic enrichment, which is the cornerstone of the Skill-building component, Dream building, and Character building. Homework assistance and one to one mentoring are also provided. Programs currently in Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; East Orange, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Orlando, FL; Houston, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Memphis, TN; Los Angeles, CA; Indianapolis, IN
Volunteers of America
Area Served: National
Telephone: 703-341-5000
Address: 1660 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Website: http://www.voa.org/Get-Help/National-Network-of-Services/Corrections
Established: 2002
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
It provides literacy and family strengthening programming for incarcerated parents and their children. Parents take a class then read and record books. The recordings are given to the children along with a book bag, personal tape player and other supplies.
WE GOT US NOW
Area served: National
Parent Organization: We got us now
Telephone: 9173304222
Address: 63 Hamilton Terrace Suite 36, New York, New York 10031, United States
Email: Ebony@wegotusnow.org
Website: https://www.wegotusnow.org
Established: 2017
Volunteer/ internship Opportunities: Yes
We Got Us Now is a national nonpartisan organization built by, led by and about children and young adults impacted by parental incarceration with the mission to ENGAGE, EDUCATE, ELEVATE & EMPOWER our historically invisible population through the use of digital narratives, safe + inclusive spaces & advocacy led campaigns to ensure our voices are at the forefront of strategic initiatives, practices and policies that will help to keep our families connected, create fair sentencing and end mass incarceration.
Wings Ministry & Wings for L.I.F.E.
Area Served: National – International
Telephone: 505-291-6412
Address: 2270 D Wyoming Blvd NE #130
Albuquerque, NM 87112
Email: AnnEdenfield@WingsMinistry.org
Website: www.WingsMinistry.org
Established: 1995
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Wings Ministry – Christ’s unconditional love shared with all families of prisoners. Wings for L.I.F.E. – Life-skills Imparted to Families through Education