The Directory of Programs Serving Children and Families of the Incarcerated is an update of the Directory of 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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- Washington, DC
Montana
The Family Tree Center
Website: https://familytreecenterbillings.org/families-impacted-by-incarceration/
Email address: info@familytreecenter.org
Phone number: (406) 252-9799
Address: 2520 5th Avenue South
Billings, MT,59101-4342
To support, strengthen and educate children and families in ways that enhance their growth and well-being: to stop the hurt before it happens.
Montana Department of Corrections CAMPP MT
Website: www.mt.gov
Is this name identical to the parent organization name? no
Email: Terryl.Gochanour@mt.gov
Phone number: 406-416-6465
Address: 350 Conley Lake Road Deer Lodge, Montana 59722 United States
Parent organization: Montana Department of Corrections
CAMPP MT which stands for Connecting Adults and Minors through Positive Parenting in an innovative approach to breaking the cycle of incarceration through building strong connections between incarcerated fathers and minor children. We utilize evidence-based parenting programming, supervised visits, and partnerships with state and community agencies to help create positive family connections.
Nebraska
Parenting Program
Area Served: Nebraska
Parent Organization: Nebraska Department of Corrections
Telephone: 402-362-3317
Address: 1107 Recharge Road
York, NE 68467
E-mail: mary.alley@nebraska.gov
Website: https://corrections.nebraska.gov/parenting-5-12
Secondary Office: 1107 Recharge Road, York, NE 68467
Established: 1974
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We provide parenting education. We also provide a nursery, day visits, and overnight visits for children.
ReConnect – Family Matters SOS
Area Served: Omaha, Nebraska
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 402-934-4933
Address: 1941 So. 42nd St Suite 502
Omaha, NE 68105
United States
E-mail: reconnectsuccess@gmail.com
Website: https://reconnectsuccess.com
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2012
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
A family reunification program that was developed to break the cycle of inter generational incarceration by preserving the parent child relationship during the incarceration of one or both parents. The program aims to grow the parenting capacity of the incarcerated parent while also helping the child overcome the impact of parent incarceration on the child’s development and well being. The program services range from providing resources to facilitate greater communication, helping parents to learn how to parent from prison, support to help reduce the child’s risk factors as a result of having a parent incarcerated and reentry support to help the incarcerated parent to transition more successfully from incarceration to the community that fosters a continuation of the family reunification efforts.
Nevada
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Nevada
Area Served: Reno, Sparks, Sun Valley, Carson City, Minden, and Gardnerville, Nevada
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 775-352-3202
Address: 495 Apple St. Ste. 104
Reno, NV 89502
E-mail: contact@bbbsnn.org
Website: www.bbbsnn.org
Secondary Office: 813 N. Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701
Established: 2001
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We are a FREE mentoring program. We pair children ages 6 to 18 (or 4 to 18 if the child has a parent in prison) with a volunteer mentor (“Big”). The Big and the child, who we call “Little” get together once a week for about 2 to 4 hours to do free or low-cost activities. The one-to-one relationship creates positive outcomes for the child.
New Hampshire
Family Connections Center
Parent Organization: New Hampshire Department of Corrections
Area Served: New Hampshire
Address: PO Box 14
Concord, NH 03301
E-mail: FccConcord@nhdoc.state.nh.us
Website: http://www.nh.gov/nhdoc/fcc/
Phone: 603-271-2255
Volunteer Opportunities? Yes
The Family Connections Center(FCC) is located in all three NH State Prisons and minimum security units. The FCC provides parenting education, healthy relationship classes, parenting support groups, recording books on CD’s and life skills seminars for incarcerated mothers and fathers. The FCC creates opportunities for incarcerated parents to have healthy contacts with their children through internet video visits, Family Fun Days and the Children of Incarcerated Parents (CIP) summer camp program. At CIP Camp, the children of the FCC participants are able to spend two weeks at a summer camp for free and come into the prison to spend one or two days with their mom or dad playing games, sharing meals and making a life-sized mural titled: A Perfect Day with Dad/Mom.
New Jersey
Photo Patch Foundation
Website: https://photopatch.org/
Email: info[@]ffwd.org
Phone number: 1-800-668-6868
Photo Patch Foundation endeavors to demystify what children of incarcerated parents face and need, as there is often a disconnect between what people suspect and reality.
Prison Ministry of the Diocese of Newark
200 Highfield Lane, Nutley, NJ 07110
Telephone: 973-235-1177
Straight and Narrow, Inc.
Area Served: New Jersey
Parent Organization: Primary Prevention Program
Telephone: 973-345-6000
Address: 396 Straight St
Paterson, NJ
E-mail:info@straightandnarrowinc.org
Website: http://www.straightandnarrowinc.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1954
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Parenting Classes for Men in Residential Drug Treatment
New Mexico
Parent Reentry Programming
Parent Organization: PB&J Family Services
Area Served: New Mexico
Address: 1101 Lopez Rd. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87105
E-mail: info@pbjfamilyservices.org
Website: http://pbjfamilyservices.org/
Phone: 505-877-7060
Established: 1972
Volunteer Opportunities: yes
PB&J Family Services has a 25 year history creating trusting relationships with incarcerated parents and their families. Services are provided to parents within correctional facilities, to children and caretakers within the community, and post-release support through home visiting, therapeutic bonding-attachment programs, weekly support groups, and a workforce development center.
Wings for L.I.F.E. (Life-skills Imparted to Families through Education)
Parent Organization: Roswell W.F.L., Inc.
Area Served: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Address: 2270 D Wyoming Blvd NE #130 Albuquerque, NM 87112
E-mail: AnnEdenfield@WingsForLIFEInternational.org
Website: www.WingsForLIFEInternational.org
Phone: 505-291-6412
505-291-6412 cell
Established: 2007
Volunteer Opportunities? Yes
Life-skills, substance abuse/recovery, educational topics and parenting at both adult and juvenile detention centers. After-school program for children.
New York
Photo Patch Foundation
Photo Patch Foundation endeavors to demystify what children of incarcerated parents face and need, as there is often a disconnect between what people suspect and reality. Traumatized by the sudden separation when their incarcerated parents are taken away, children of all ages are at risk. Our Mobile App, built by JJ, is the only mobile application with a high focus on helping kids send photos and letters to parents in prison…for FREE! We raise money online and in the community so that we can pay the cost of sending THOUSANDS of letters every year!
Fathers Count/Re-Entry Plus
Area Served: Westchester County, New York
Parent Organization: Family Services of Westchester
Telephone: 914-937-2320
Address: One Gateway Plaza, 4th Floor
Port Chester, NY 10573
E-mail: None
Website: www.fsw.org
Secondary Office: 20 South Broadway, 3rd Floor, Yonkers, NY 10701
Established: 2006
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Providing Employment Skills and Parenting Skills to fathers ages 18 and older who are or were involved in the Criminal Justice System.
The Gang Diversion, Reentry And Absent Fathers Intervention Centers, Inc
Area Served: Regional
Parent Organization: DBA: The GRAAFICS Program
Telephone: 718-694-8357
Address:
209 West 29th Street- Suite:266, New York City, NY 10002
E-mail: graafics.program@gmail.com
Website: www.GRAAFICS.org
Established: 2003
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The GRAAFICS Program is a four-tier social emotional, culturally responsive, trauma informed, prevention and intervention program that offers evidence based behavior redirection and life skills services to school based youth and adult populations throughout the nation.
Hour Children, Inc.
Area Served: the greater New York area including Westchester County and Long Island
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 718-433-4274
Address: Hour Children
36-11 12th Street
Long Island City, NY 11106
E-mail: info@hourchildren.org
Website: www.hourchildren.org
Contact: Sister Tesa Fitzgerald
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1992
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Hour Children is a non-sectarian, not-for-profit agency located in Long Island City (Queens County) that has been solely focused, throughout our 25-year history, on providing practical, comprehensive services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their families. Founded in 1986 and incorporated in 1992, Hour Children has evolved from its modest beginnings as a program that provided care to children of women incarcerated at Bedford Hills and Taconic Correctional Facilities, to a leading provider of prison- and community-based programs that support these fragile women and their families as they work to transform their lives and achieve self-sufficiency. Community-based programs include: transitional and permanent supportive housing; a comprehensive employment training and placement program; case management and therapeutic services; pre- and post-release adult mentoring; mentoring for children with incarcerated parents; child care that includes a fully-licensed daycare center and an after-school program that free women so that they can go to work or school, three thrift shops; and a community food pantry. In-prison programming (varies by locale) include: transportation and visitation services; parenting education; mental health support for women, children and families; a Teen Program; advocacy; and a residential Nursery unit.
Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
Area Served: Nassau County
Telephone: 516-747-2606
Address: 207 Hillside Avenue Williston Park, NY
Email: recover@licadd.org
Website: https://licadd.org/
Established: 1953
Volunteer Opportunities? Yes
BUDDY (Building Unique, Dynamic & Diverse Youth) brings together the Long Island Council of Churches (LICC) and the Mentoring Partnership of Long Island (MPLI) who have teamed-up to launch and sustain a mentoring program for children in Nassau County whose mothers are incarcerated. Our main goal is to break the cycle and ensure that Nassau’s most at-risk kids get the help they need to be successful.
Osborne Association
Area Served: New York
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 718-707-2684
Address: 809 Westchester Avenue
Bronx, NY 10455
E-mail: kimora@osborneny.org
Website: https://www.osborneny.org/programs.cfm?programID=23
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1931
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We provide a broad range of treatment, education, and vocational services to currently or formerly incarcerated individuals, their children and other family members.
Prison Families of New York, Inc.
Area Served: New York (primarily)
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 518-453-6659
Address: 40 North Main Avenue
Albany, NY 12203
E-mail: alison.coleman@rcda.orghttp://prisonfamiliesofnewyork.org/
Website: prisonministry.net/PFNY
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1983
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We “teach prison” to families; train those who work with children and families of prisoners; work on New York State policy development and advocacy; hold support groups; have a interactive website.
North Carolina
Harriet’s House
Area Served: State of North Carolina
Parent Organization: Passage Home, Inc.
Telephone: 919-834-0666, ext. 235
Address: PO Box 10347, 712 West Johnson St
Raleigh, NC 27605
E-mail: www.passagehome.org
Website: www.passagehome.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1995
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Harriet’s House provides transitional housing for up to 24 months with Case management services to women leaving the prison system. Primary goal of the program is to re-unite mothers with their child/children while participants in the program are striving for self-sufficiency. This community re-entry program is totally voluntary and referrals are made by the prison Social Workers.
Offender Family Services
Area Served: National
Parent Organization: NC Department of Correction, Division of Prisons
Telephone: 919-838-3629
Address: 840 W. Morgan St., 4280 MSC Raleigh, NC
E-mail: wmn01@doc.state.nc.us
Website: www.doc.state.nc.us/familyservices/
Secondary Office: 831 W. Morgan St. 4260 MSC, Raleigh, NC
Established: 1998
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Liaison for offender families with the NC Department of Corrections.Provides psychosocial support, crisis intervention, information and referral, transition services, and information and education of the criminal justice system.
Our Children’s Place
Area Served: State of North Carolina
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 919-843-2670
Address: P.O. Box 1086
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
E-mail: ourchildrensplace@gmail.com
Website: www.ourchildrensplace.com
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2004
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Our Children’s Place (OCP) is a planned residential facility which will allow North Carolina infants and preschoolers to live with their mothers while the women serve out their sentences for non-violent offenses.During their stay at OCP, the women will receive a wide array of treatment and services to support their successful parenting and reentry into the community.The children will receive the highest quality child care and developmental services.
MATCH
Area Served: Women at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women and their children wherever they are living.
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 919-8284767
Address: P. O. Box 14469
Raleigh, NC 27620
E-mail: director@prisonmatch.org
Website: https://www.ncdps.gov/adult-corrections/prisons/prison-facilities/nc-correctional-institution-for-women
Secondary Office: 1034 Bragg St., Raleigh, NC 27610
Established: 1992
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Strengthen the bond of incarcerated mothers with their children through parenting education and ongoing visits in a child-friendly homelike setting.
SKIP (Support for Kids of Incarcerated Parents)
Area Served: Guilford County, NC
Parent Organization: Tristan’s Quest, Inc.
Telephone: 336-547-7461
Address: 115-A South Walnut Circle
Greensboro, NC 27409
E-mail: amylynn@tristansquest.com
Website: www.tristansquest.com
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2006
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
SKIP provides in-school support groups for children of incarcerated parents.In these support groups, children learn that they are not alone in this situation, talk about different feelings and emotions associated with having a parent in jail or prison, and form or strengthen a relationship with that incarcerated parent through weekly letter-writing.
The Matthew 25 Center
Area Served: Southeastern North Carolina
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 910-259-7133
Address: 1196 Penderlea Highway
Burgaw, NC 28425
E-mail: mathew25@bizec.rr.com
Website: http://matthew25center.org/
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2002
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: No
The Matthew 25 Center ministers to families with incarcerated loved ones in southeast NC.We offer free local housing during visits, counseling, information, and unconditional acceptance. The Center also provides local support for prison ministry teams when they come into our area.
North Dakota
Ohio
Family of Promises Program
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- Year Established: 2008
- Scope of Service: Lake County, Ohio
- Official Website: https://ccdocle.org/families-of-promise
- Contact Person: Senta Kline
- (440)352-6191 Ext. 18
- 8 North State Street, Suite 455 Painesville, Ohio 44077 United States
We provide services to families who have at least one parent incarcerated. The goal of the program is to reduce barriers for the families and offer support to the children who have an incarcerated parent. The program is housed in the Catholic Charities Agency of Lake County, Ohio, however it is not a religious program.
Unlocking Futures
Area Served: Ohio
Telephone: 859-654-0284
Address: PO Box 25
Brice, OH 43109
E-mail: info@unlockingfamilyfutures.com
Web site: https://unlockingfamilyfutures.org/
Contact: Ashia Bruton
Established: 2015
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We offer mentoring for children who have an incarcerated parent, monetary hardship funds to the caregiver, prison transportation, food assistance, gift cards for food/gas for those visiting a loved one in a federal prison system, as well as referral services for the parent upon their release.
Oklahoma
New Hope Oklahoma
Area Served: Oklahoma with a focus on the greater Tulsa area.
Telephone: (918)-359-9024
Address: 4122 W 55th Pl. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74107 United States
Email: admin@newhopeoklahoma.org
Website: https://newhopeoklahoma.org/
Established: 1992
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
New Hope Oklahoma is a Tulsa-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to children with parents in prison. Our programs consist of summer camps, after-school programs, weekend retreats, family gatherings, and case management services. All programs are offered at no cost to qualifying families.
Passport to the Future
Area Served: Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha Counties in Southeast Oklahoma
Parent Organization: Little Dixie Community Action Agency, Inc.
Telephone: 580-298-2921
Address: 603 S.W. “B” Street
Antlers, OK 74523
E-mail: dlong@littledixie.org
Website: www.littledixie.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1968
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Passport to the Future is a Mentoring Program for children ages 4-18 who have an incarcerated parent.Little Dixie CAA is a non profit Community Action Agency.
Oregon
Parenting Inside Out
Area Served: Parenting Inside Out: National. Direct Service/Programs: Oregon
Parent Organization: Pathfinders of Oregon
Telephone: 503-977-6399
Address: 7800 SW Barbur Blvd., Suite 2
Portland, OR 97219
E-mail: mclark@thepathfindernetwork.org
Website: https://www.nwfs.org/community-engagement/parenting-inside-out.html
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2004
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Our mission is to improve outcomes for children whose parents are involved in the criminal justice system. Direct service programs and systems change efforts are implemented throughout Oregon. CJA markets curriculum and training opportunities for Parenting Inside Out, our population-specific parenting curriculum, nationally.
The Family Preservation Project
Area Served: Oregon: Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Parent Organization: YWCA of Greater Portland
Telephone: 503-294-7494
Address: PO Box 4587 Portland, OR 97208
E-mail: jessicak@ywcapdx.org
Website: https://www.ywcapdx.org/what-we-do/family-preservation-project/
Secondary Office: Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Established: 2003
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The Family Preservation Project (FPP) promotes individual and system level change to reduce the collateral consequences of parental incarceration on children, families, and the community. FPP achieves this through direct service programs that operate inside Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF) in Wilsonville, Oregon. They include: Intensive Family Reunification Program, Family Resource Center, Monthly Speaker Series.
Pennsylvania
Ambassadors For Hope
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- Year Established: 2011
- Scope of Service: Lancaster County, PA
- Official Website: http://www.ambassadorsforhope.com/
- Contact Person: Bob Cooper
- 717-584-6110
- 8 South George Street
- Millersville, PA 17551
- United States
Ambassadors for Hope is a community benefit network of agency representatives and others whose sole purpose is strengthening families impacted by incarceration in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Ambassadors for Hope mission is to provide information about resources available to strengthen families impacted by incarceration. Ambassadors for Hope identifies needs and advocates solutions for the children of incarcerated parents by Educating and mobilizing the community, Empowering affected families, Influencing public policy. We are committed to the children, caregivers, families, and communities affected by the issue of a parent being incarcerated.
Butler County Reentry Initiative
Area Served: Butler County Ohio, primarily Middletown
Parent Organization: 3 R Development
Telephone: 513-424-8284
Address: 1105 Fourteenth Avenue
Middletown, OH 45044
E-mail: 3rdevelopment@sbcglobal.net
Website: None
Secondary Office: 505 Garfield Street, Middletown, OH 0
Established: 1998
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Case Management for re-entrants, referrals to wrap-around services, peer counseling for individuals and family members.
Wesley Family Services
Area Served: Pennsylvania – Primarily the Western Region
Parent Organization: Family Services of Western Pennsylvania
Telephone: 412-820-2050
Address: 3230 William Pitt Way Pittsburgh, PA 15238
E-mail: fswp@fswp.org
Website: www.wfspa.org
Secondary Office: 6401 Penn Avenue, 2nd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Established: 1980
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes Provides transportation and visitation support to families of those incarcerated in Pennsylvania State Correctional Institutions.
Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
Parent Organization: Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
Area Served: Eastern Pennsylvania
Address: P.O. Box 27540 Philadelphia, PA 19118
E-mail: info@gsep.org
Website: http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/our_partners/initiatives/gsbb.asp
Phone: 888-564-2030
Established: 2010
Volunteer Opportunities? Yes
We bring daughters of incarcerated mothers to the correctional facility twice monthly for enhanced visits in the form of a Girl Scout troop meeting.
Inmate Family Services
Area Served: Pennsylvania (some programs specific to Philadelphia)
Parent Organization: Pennsylvania Prison Society
Telephone: 215-564-6005, ext. 100
Address: 245 North Broad St., Suite 300
Philadelphia, PA 19007
E-mail: geninfo@prisonsociety.org
Website: www.prisonsociety.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1787
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Services include:12 week support group for children of incarcerated parents; parenting classes inside prison; transportation to Pennsylvania state prisons; video visitation to some PA state prisons; advocacy on behalf of Children’s Bill of Rights and other issues regarding the impact of incarceration on people in prison and their families.
Lydia’s Place, Inc.
Area Served: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 412-391-1013
Address: 710 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2100
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
E-mail: vicki@lydiasplace.org
Website: https://renewalinc.com/programs-services/lydias-place/
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1993
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The mission of Lydia’s Place, Inc. is to help women in prison and their children rebuild their lives. To this end we provide services in the Allegheny County Jail and in the Pittsburgh community.
MOMobile Riverside
Area Served: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Parent Organization: Maternity Care Coalition
Telephone: 215-685-7281
Address: 2000 Hamilton St.
Philadelphia, PA 19130
E-mail: riverside@maternitycarecoalition.org
Website: maternitycarecoalition.org/momobile/#momobile-at-riverside
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2006
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: No
MOMobile Advocates partner with women during their incarceration to prepare them for or help them return to motherhood. Staff members assist each woman in the program with her re-entry and connection to family and community when she is released.
U.S Dream Academy
Area Served: Philadelphia
Telephone: (215) 339-1090
Address: 1599 Wharton Street Philadelphia, PA 19146-3196
Website: www.usdreamacademy.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1998
Youth Support Program
Area Served: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Parent Organization: Compass Mark
Telephone: 717-299-2831
Address: 630 Janet Avenue
Lancaster, PA 17601
E-mail: info@compassmark.org
Website: www.compassmark.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1966
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Prevention, Early Intervention and Educational Support Groups for high risk children, adolescents and families. Also training of key points of intervention.
Rhode Island
Amachi Program
Area Served: State of Rhode Island
Parent Organization: Big Sisters of Rhode Island
Telephone: 401-921-2434
Address: 1540 Pontiac Avenue
Cranston, RI 2920
E-mail: mwalker@amachimentoring.org
Website: https://www.amachimentoring.org/
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2004
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Mentoring Children of Prisoners programming for girls only between the ages of 4 to 18.Pair girls with a female mentor for at least one year; weekly or bi-weekly visits in the community.
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (RISE)
Area Served: Rhode Island
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 401-421-2010
Address: 17 Gordon Avenue, Suite 004
Providence, RI 2905
E-mail: santaya@riseonline.org
Website: www.riseonline.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1998
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
RISE provides scholarships and community-based mentoring to children of incarcerated parents.
South Carolina
Department of Young Offender Services
Area Served: State of South Carolina
Parent Organization: Division of Young Offender Services
Telephone: 803-896-1774
Address: 4444 Broad River Road
Columbia, SC 29210
E-mail: doc.state.sc.us
Website: www.doc.sc.gov/programs/yoprs.jsp
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1998
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Our Division provides programs and services for female and female youthful offenders ages 17-29.
Silent Victims of Crime
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- Official Website : https://www.silentvictimsofcrime.org/
- Year established: 1996
- Scope of Service: FL and SC
- Contact Person: Paulette Pfeiffer
- svc@SilentVictimsOfCrime.org
- 3054695205
- 5825 SW 68th Street
- Ste 300
- Miami, FL 33143
- United States
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- Leadership Program: We bring together children and young adults to act as a team during monthly excursions.Camps: Our South Carolina camps started in 2002. We provide an educational focus, and a sense of social responsibility, in partnership with the Call Me MISTER program from Clemson University.CARE Court: Court-Assisted Re-Entry (CARE). We assist returning citizens with successful re-entry into the community by creating a stable, constructive, and joyful interaction with their children and their family. Incarcerated “Parent” Visitation: Maintains the connection between the child and the incarcerated parent by coordinating visits and a summer camp to correctional facilities in South Carolina and Florida. Caregiver Support: Coordination of wrap-around services, including mental health assistance, morale building, and conflict resolution.
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South Dakota
Family Connection
Area Served: Sioux Falls, SD
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 605-357-0777
Address: PO Box 100Sioux Falls, SD 57101
E-mail: info@sdfamilyconnection.org
Website: www.sdfamilyconnection.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1995
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Family Connection provides a place for people traveling to Sioux Falls, SD when visiting someone incarcerated at the Sioux Falls penitentiary. Family Connection provides programming to children in the Sioux Falls school district with incarcerated family members.
Tennessee
Amachi Knoxville
Area Served: Knox County, Tennessee
Parent Organization: Knoxville Leadership Foundation
Telephone: 865-524-2774
Address: 901 East Summit Hill Drive, Suite 300
Knoxville, TN 37915
E-mail: questions@klf.org
Website: http://www.klf.org/index.php/programs/amachi/
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2004
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Amachi Knoxville is an innovative mentoring program designed to match caring people of faith with children ages 4-17 who are impacted by incarceration.Amachi mentors are expected to meet a minimum of one hour a week for one year in a community based, one-on-one mentoring relationship.Mentors are screened and trained prior to being matched with a child, based on mutual interests and preferences.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee – Amachi
Area Served: Middle Tennessee
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 615-329-9191
Address: 1704 Charlotte Avenue, Suite 130
Nashville, TN 37203
E-mail: info@bbbsmt.org
Website: www.mentorakid.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1969
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
We provide mentoring services for children living in a single family household.
Youth & Family Outreach / Family Reconciliation Center
Area Served: Tennessee
Parent Organization: Family Reconciliation Center
Telephone: 615-292-6371
Address: P.O. Box 90827
Nashville, TN 37209
E-mail: reconciliation84@gmail.com
Website: https://www.familyreconciliationcenter.org/
Contact: Malinda Davenport-Crisp, PhD, LPC/MHSP
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1984
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Family Reconciliation Center is a nonprofit organization supporting youth and families impacted by incarceration through family reunification programs, at-risk youth outreach, our Guesthouse, resources/referrals, and therapeutic interventions.
Texas
Against the Odds (ATO) Mentoring Program
Area Served: Dallas, Texas
Parent Organization: SouthFair Community Development Corporation
Telephone: 214-421-1373
Address: 2610 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75215
E-mail: atomentoring@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.southfaircdc.org
Secondary Office: P. O. Box 150353, Dallas, TX 75315
Established:
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities? Yes
Against the Odds Mentoring Program empowers the children with incarcerated parents to maximize their potential by providing academic, social and moral enrichment through supportive adult to child relationships that emphasize well being and advancement. Our program focuses on three key factors: 1. Encouraging the child (ages 4-18); 2. Strengthening the family; and 3. Enhancing the community.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lonestar
Area Served: State
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 1-888-887-2447
Address: 450 East John Carpenter Frwy Irving, TX 75062
E-mail: 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.
Cherish Our Children Inc.
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- Year established: 1993
- Service Area: Houston
- Official Website: http://www.cherishourchildren.org
- Contact Person : Ken Wells
- 17138369147
- kenw@cherishourchildren.org
- 448 W. 19th St., Box 647 Houston, TX 77008
United States
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- Cherish Our Children Inc is a Houston-based 501(c)(3) organization and our premier program, No More Victims, works with children of incarcerated parents in Houston schools. COCI’s NMV program is summed up by its motto, “Get Educated, Not Incarcerated.” In 2018, NMV worked with 100 teens at Worthing, Sterling and Furr High Schools, three of the poorest performing schools in the Houston Independent School District. Over its 20+ year history, NMV has helped more than 1,600 teens graduate, develop the confidence and self-sufficiency needed to find and retain employment, and most importantly, to avoid incarceration themselves. The student sessions are based on a peer-support approach that stresses honesty, responsibility/ accountability, and communication. Educational support includes mentoring and tutoring activities to improve students’ academic success, as well as teaching how to resolve conflicts, participate in creative problem-solving exercises, and acquire the facility to function within multiple settings using appropriate vocabulary and delivery. Students are taught their responsibilities as productive, law-abiding citizens and are given an outlet for discussion and support from their peers in the program. Furthermore, NMV works to promote mental health, self-confidence and self-sufficiency in teens who are in constant need of reassurance that they have worth and can succeed, despite an environment lacking in support systems and positive role models.
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DePelchin Children’s Center
Area Served: Greater Houston Area
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 713-730-2335
Address: 4950 Memorial Dr
Houston, TX 77007
E-mail: info@depelchin.org
Website: www.depelchin.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1892
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
DePelchin Children’s Center provides counseling services for children with depression, emotional or behavioral problems, attention-deficit disorders, traumatic stress and autism spectrum disorders. Services provided include psychological and/or psychiatric assessments, therapeutic counseling sessions with children and their families, group counseling, and parent education classes and support groups.
Enterprising Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
Area Served: Central Texas women housed in or can be transfered to Gatesville units.
Parent Organization: Girl Scouts of Central Texas
Telephone: 512-453-7391
Address: 12012 Par Thirty-five Circle
Austin, TX 78753
E-mail: www.gsctx.org
Website: www.gsctx.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1998
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The Enterprising Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (EGSBB) seeks to break the cycle of intergenerational crime. The program allows incarcerated mothers and their daughters to spend positive time together at prison-based Girl Scout meetings and to be provided critical pre and post release services that will increase the likelihood that these families can remain together rather than suffer the trauma of repeated prison confinement.
MATCH/PATCH Program
Area Served: Bexar County, Texas
Parent Organization: Bexar County Sheriff’s Office & Adult Detention Center
Telephone: 210-335-6330
Address: 200 N. Comal St.
San Antonio, TX 78242
E-mail: matchpatch@bexar.org
Website: https://www.thebexarcountyjail.com/info-for-inmates/matchpatch-program/
Secondary Office: None
Established:
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
To modify behavior of incarcerated parents with parenting & life skills training; to strengthen the parent-child relationship during incarceration, to lesson the trauma of separation for the children.
National Prisoner’s Family Conference
Area Served: El Paso, Texas
Parent Organization: Community Solutions of El Paso
Telephone: 915-861-7733
Address: 2200 N Yarbrough B 245El Paso, TX 79925
Email: info@prisonersfamilyconference.org
Website: www.prisonersfamilyconference.org
Secondary Office:Established: 2009
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The National Prisoner’s Family Conference is a three day forum providing keynote presentations, workshops, exhibits, advocacy sessions and networking for all concerned with the prison family. Topics relate largely to building and maintain healthy relationships during and following a loved one’s incarceration. Knowledgeable and experienced presenters from across the country share programs and experiences beneficial to prison family members, as well as those serving prisoners and their families in fields such as criminal justice, counseling, academia, mental health, ministry and other.
Seedling’s
Area Served: Travis, Hays, and Williamson Counties, Texas
Parent Organization: Seedling Foundation
Telephone: 512-323-6371
Address: 2800 S. 1H 35, Suite 170
Austin, TX 78704
E-mail: info@seedlingfoundation.org
Website: https://seedlingmentors.org/
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2006
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Seedling’s Promise is a one-on-one school-based mentoring program for children, ages 5-18, who have an incarcerated parent.Emphasis is placed on long-term mentor relationships.
Texas Inmate Families Association
Area Served: Amarillo, Central Austin, Beaumont, Conroe, Corpus Christi, Dallas Central, Fort Worth, Houston, Humble, Killeen/Harker Heights, McAllen, Nacogdoches/Lufkin, Paris, Pearland/Houston, San Antonio, North San Antonio, Tyler, and Waco.
Telephone: (512) 371-0900
Address: P.O. Box 300220 Austin, Texas 78703-0004
Email:tifa@tifa.org
Website: tifa.org
Secondary Office:Established: 1996
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
TIFA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy. TIFA also provides parole workshops as well as online resources for our members. The Children of Incarcerated Parents Caregiver Guides (Volume 1 and 2) free to the public.
The International Prisoners Family Conference
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- Year established 2009
- Official Website: https://prisonersfamilyconference.org/
- Scope of Service: International
- Contact Person: Carolyn Esparza
- info@prisonerfamilyconference.org
- 9158617733
- Prisoners Family Conference
PO Box 385
Spring Branch, Texas 78070
United States
U.S Dream Academy
Area Served: Houston
Telephone: 713-490-6432
Address: 3919 Ward Street Houston, TX 77021
Website: www.usdreamacademy.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1998
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 is 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
We The Village
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- Year established: 2018
- Service Area: Dallas-Ft. Worth
- Official Website: http://www.we-thevillage.org
- Contact Person: Kay Brown-Patrick
- tpatrick@we-thevillage.org
- 469-431-0246
- PO Box 764993 Dallas, TX 75376-4993
- United States
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OUR GOALS:
To identify children of inmates ages 6-18 in need of support and link them with appropriate resources, organizations, and services. Our programs include mentoring, counseling, college readiness, entrepreneurship, social skills, and more..
Provide assistance to caregivers by connecting them with resources that can help with financials, employment and other concerns.
To increase the likelihood of successful reunification with incarcerated parents by supporting communication with parents while they are incarcerated.
Utah
U.S Dream Academy
Area Served: Salt Lake City
Telephone:(801) 973-9494
Address: 1155 S. Glendale Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84104
Website: www.usdreamacademy.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1998
Vermont
Community H.S. of Vermont
Area Served: Newport, Vermont
Parent Organization: Department of Corrections
Telephone: 802-951-5037
Address: 103 South Main Street Waterbury, VT 05671-1001
E-mail: charity.baker@state.vt.us
Website: https://www.chsvt.org/
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2005
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The Mission of the Community High School of Vermont is to provide an accredited, coordinated and personalized education that assists students in their academic, social and vocational successes. Working with KIDS-A-PART program. We teach Parenting and Nurturing Fathers and present Shaken Baby Syndrome workshops
Kids-A-Part
Area Served: State of Vermont
Parent Organization: Vermont Children’s Aid Society
Telephone: 802-859-3227
Address: 79 Weaver St, PO Box 127
Winooski, VT 5404
E-mail: mainadmn@vtcas.org
Website: www.lundvt.org/kids-a-part.html
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2006
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Kids-A-Part (Kids apart from a parent and a part of our communities) is a program for children and families impacted by incarceration.We offer parenting services in correctional facilities and services to children and caregivers in the community.Through direct service, advocacy and education, Kids-A-Part draws from the Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights to improve the well being of Children impacted by incarceration.
Virginia
Assisting Families of Inmates
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- Year Established: 1978
- Scope of Service: Virginia
- Official Website: https://afoi.org
- Contact Person: Patrick Link
- patrick.link@afoi.org
- 804-643-2401
- 1 North Fifth Street
Suite 416 Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States
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Jordan’s Quest, Inc.
Area Served: Richmond City, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Petersburg, Prince George, Hopewell, Dinwiddie Colonial Heights, Chester, Sussex (and surrounding Towns)
Parent Organization: Parent Educator/Consultant
Telephone: 804-393-0110
Address: P.O. Box 2043
Mechanicsville, VA 23116
E-mail: cjordan@jordansquest.com
Website: www.jordansquest.com
Secondary Office: P.O. Box 2043, Mechanicsville, VA 23116
Established:
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: No
We offer parenting workshops, co-parenting class for child custody and support (court mandated). Provide parenting resource information to parents. Will work with parent in their home.
K.I.P. Care
Area Served: Norfolk, VA
Parent Organization: Garden of Hope- Second Chances
Telephone: 757-452-3988
Address: 810 Union Street First Floor Mezzanine
Norfolk, VA 23510
E-mail: tmjones1206@gmail.com
Website: www.gardenofhopecdc.org
Contact: Tenisha Jones
Established: 2002
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The K.I.P. Care Program takes a holistic approach providing services for the parents, the caregivers and the child(ren). We work to enhance academic achievement by providing both individual and group tutorial sessions. In addition the children participate in community service projects, and monthly workshops. Parents and caregivers also attend workshops and seminars to assist with transitioning and meeting the needs of the children.
Mentoring Children of Prisoners
Area Served: Hampton Roads, Virginia
Parent Organization: Seton Youth Shelters
Telephone: 757-963-5795
Address: 3333 Virginia Beach Blvd., Suite 28,
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
E-mail: jredding@setonyouthshelters.org
Website: setonyouthshelters.org
Other Offices: Girls Shelter – 465 Kings Grant Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23452; Boys Shelter – 642 N. Lynnhaven Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23452
Established: 1985
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
The Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program matches a youth, ages 4-18, with a trained adult mentor, who meets with the youth on a weekly basis. Mentors and mentees engage in recreational, educational, or cultural activities. Seton Youth Shelters provides emergency shelters, street outreach, and counseling for youth, free of charge.
Mentoring Children of Prisoners
Area Served: Harrisonburg City and Rockingham County, Virginia
Parent Organization: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County
Telephone: 540-433-8886
Address: 225 N High St, Harrisonburg, VA 22802
E-mail: info@bbbshr.org
Website: www.bbbshr.org
Established: 1976
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
BBBSHR provides volunteer mentors to interested children, including children who have an incarcerated parent. The staff received training from the Family Corrections Network.
Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged
Area Served: State of Virginia
Parent Organization: R.I.H.D.
Telephone: 804-426-4426
Address: RIHD c/oWMUMC, 1720 Mechanicsville Turnpike
Richmond, VA 23223
E-mail: InMateResource@yahoo.com
Website: www.rihd.org
Secondary Office: None
Established:
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Nonprofit, all volunteer organization dedicated to reducing crime and reducing recidivism through programs that promote education for youth at risk; prisoner and former prisoner self-rehabilitation.
The Messages Project
Area Served: State of Virginia
Telephone: None
Address: PO Box 8325 9711?8th View St. Suite 11? Norfolk, VA 23503
E-mail: list@themessagesproject.org
Website: https://themessagesproject.org/?
Established: 1999
Volunteer/Internship 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.
Virginia C.U.R.E. K.I.D.S.
Area Served: Richmond VA
Parent Organization: Virginia C.U.R.E.
Telephone: 804-562-7414
Address: 3922 Squire Hill Court Richmond, VA 23234
Email: Hudson4vacure@aol.com
Website: www.vacurekids.webs.com
Secondary Office: 3421 Spring Drive Alexandria United States
Secondary Phone: 703-765-7010
Established: 2008
Volunteer Opportunities?: Yes
We offer services and resources to children with an incarcerated parent and their families.
Washington
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound
Area Served: King, Pierce, Jefferson, Kitsap and Clallam Counties.
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 206-763-9060
Address: 1600 S. Graham St
Seattle, WA 98108
E-mail: info@bbbsps.org
Website: www.bbbsps.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1957
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound is committed to providing a caring adult mentor to any child who needs or wants one.BBBSPS offers both community-based and school-based mentoring programs and supports one-on-one mentoring relationships for thousands of local youth.
Families on the Outside
Area Served: Vancouver, WA, and Portland, OR
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: 360-904-7302
Address: Families on the Outside
9208 NE Hwy 99, Ste. 107 #50
Vancouver, WA 98665
E-mail: sheri@familiesontheoutside.org
Website: https://wfspa.org/service/families-outside/
Contact: Sidney Carter
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2013
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Non-profit organization for families of incarcerated, equipping them with knowledge and life skills needed to face their struggles by holding faith-based support groups, seminars, and events. Our hope is to reduce the 70% statistic of children following the same footsteps leading them to incarceration by staying with them to adulthood.
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Madison-Area Urban Ministry
Area Served: Dane County, Wisconsin
Telephone: 608-256-0906
Address: 2300 South Park Street, Suite 2022
Madison, WI 53713
E-mail: None
Website: www.emum.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2004
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
Through MUM, there are many programs for those who incarcerated or recently released and their children. These programs help connect families while incarcerated and support those who are recently released with emotional support, a job search, and much more.
The Wisconsin CARES Network, Inc.
Area Served: Wisconsin
Telephone: 920-573-0166
Address: P.O.Box 154 Oshkosh, WI 54903
E-mail: wisconsincaresnetwork@gmail.com
Website: https://thewisconsincaresnetwork.wordpress.com
Contact: Patti Bryant
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2016
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
This is a developing resource network to assist children of incarcerated parents through support groups, resources and tools for success in life skills and education. The organization also intends to offer supports for caregivers and family of those incarcated as well as formerly incarcerated with the process of reintegration.
Wyoming
Washington, D.C.
ScholarCHIPS
Area Served: DC, Maryland and Virginia
Parent Organization: None
Telephone: None
Address: ScholarCHIPS, Inc.
P.O. Box 56404
Washington, DC 20040
E-mail: scholarchipsfund@gmail.com
Website: www.scholarchipsfund.com
Contact: ScholarCHIPS Board Chair
Secondary Office: None
Established: 2010
Volunteer/Internship Opportunities?: Yes
ScholarCHIPS provides college scholarships, mentorship and a support network for children of incarcerated parents, inspiring them to complete their college education.
U.S Dream Academy
Area Served: Washington
Telephone: (202) 645-3470
Address: 3264 Stanton Road, S.E. Washington D.C. 20032
Website: www.usdreamacademy.org
Secondary Office: None
Established: 1998