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01/28/2012

The InsideOut Dad™ Guide to Family Ties - helping dads create and maintain connections with their family

 

The following is an announcement from Christopher A. Brown, Executive Vice President, National Fatherhood Initiative:

 

I am pleased to announce the release of an innovative product for incarcerated fathers called The InsideOut Dad™ Guide to Family Ties.  The focus of the guide is on helping dads create and maintain connections with their family which research has shown to be one of the most critical factors in reducing the risk of recidivism.  NFI created this product with input from practitioners-corrections staff and volunteers who deliver NFI and other programs to incarcerated dads.  

 

This self-paced resource is ideal for incarcerated and re-entering fathers housed in short-stay facilities (such as county jails and half-way houses) that don't lend themselves to running a lengthier group-basedprogram.  It can also be used in longer-stay facilities that don't offer a group-based fatherhood program or with fathers as they wait to get into a program.  Use it as a stand-alone resource or as a compliment to NFI's group-based, evidence-based InsideOut Dad™ program.  Please visit http://www.fatherhood.org/iod-guide for more information on the guide (including a sample of its content) and to order it.

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    Here is a sample of what we are working on at the moment:

    We are working with the San Francisco Jail and a group of community and public agency partners known as the One Family Working group on an enhanced contact visiting and parenting support initiative in the San Francisco jail that is rolling out by offering contact visiting in the unite that houses women and has the ultimate aim of offering supported family visiting to every child with an eligible mother or father in the county jail.

    We are working with the police to develop a training based on a citywide joint protocol that fosters collaboration between the child welfare department and the police to ensure the immediate safety and long-term stability of children whose parents are arrested.

    We are exploring how an understanding of the impact of incarceration on families can help inform sentencing.

    We are developing training on the impact of arrest and incarceration on children and youth at various stages of their development, including a training resource bank for public agencies and community groups that interact with these children.

    We support a youth-led organization of young people whose parents are incarcerated, who present to the public about their experience and how to improve services to them and others in the same situation, and who are developing curricula for teachers, social workers, and others who work with children of the incarcerated.

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    We are working with The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Family to Family Initiative and the San Francisco Human Services Agency to improve supports and services for families involved with both the child welfare department and the prison/jail system. Activities include increased visitation by children in the child welfare system for their parents in the jail and prison, improving an internal data collection system, creating policy and practice language within their child welfare worker handbook, and developing a toolkit for social workers.

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