San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership Blog

Original Performance By Formerly Incarcerated Young Women: Moving Forward, Traveling On

"Moving Forward, Traveling On" are transformational stories of formerly incarcerated young women reclaiming their joy, finding their way, and staying on the path towards safety and self sufficiency.

 

There will be San Francisco performances:

Thursday, May 24 and Friday, May 25 beginning at 7:00 pm

at Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street in San Francisco

 

Tickets are $10, and can be purchased here.

Come Celebrate Young Families Day at the Center for Young Women's Development!

 Save the Dates!

June 3, 2012 - Young Families Day

June 14, 2012 - Sisters Rising Graduation

Find out more here

Come Join Project Avary's "Celebrating Crowning Achievements"

 

Come Join Project Avary

"Celebrating Crowning Achievements"

June 4th, 2012

Since 1999 Project Avary has been improving life outcomes for at-risk children with a parent in prison. Each year over 100 Bay Area children receive guidance, family support, and social and life skills training especially designed to meet their needs. Children are encouraged to remain involved for up to ten years.   You can help Project Avary break cycles of violence and incarceration.   Monday, June 4th, 2012 6:30pm-9:30pm at the Historic Great American Music Hall 859 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco   Evening to include dinner, wine and silent auction   Onstage interview with Miss America 2012, Laura Kaeppeller by Phil Bronstein about her experiences as the child of a formerly incarcerated parent   Musical performance featuring Moonalice with special guest Peter Rowan   Event MC, Local TV and Radio Personality Celeste Perry   Sponsorships are available. For questions or more information call 415-382-8799.

To purchase tickets to this event please click here

   

An Announcement From Oakland Fund For Children And Youth

Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY) is forming working groups/ task forces to provide input and guidance to our strategic planning process, and would like your participation and involvement!

OFCY will host four Strategic Planning Working Groups, organized to identify priority needs and strategies to be incorporated into our new strategic plan and to be implemented through the upcoming 2013-2016 funding cycle.
 
The strategic plan will guide the implementation of the four goals of OFCY's authorizing legislation, and our working groups will be organized to identify and prioritize current service needs, gaps and promising strategies to address OFCY’s goals:

Support the healthy development of young children;

Help children and youth succeed in school and graduate high school;

Prevent and reduce violence, crime, and gang involvement among young people;

Prepare young people for healthy and productive adulthood.
 
To help us organize these groups we are asking for you to complete a brief online survey. Please complete this survey in the next two weeks: we are planning to contact interested respondents by April 20^th to set up meetings for May and June 2012. Click here to begin the survey.
 
For more information on our strategic planning visit here.
 

 
 

Child Abuse Council Of Santa Clara's 30th Annual Child Abuse Council Symposium

Child Abuse Council of Santa Clara County is cordially inviting all of you to their 30th Child Abuse Council Annual Symposium on Friday, April 20th, 2012 at Santa Clara Marriott Hotel between 8: 15 am and 5:00 pm.

 Please support their symposium by spread the words about this wonderful learning event for parents and professionals including educators, social workers, attorneys, physicians, nurses, therapists, and anyone who supports the prevention of child abuse. To find out more about the event and register please click on the link below, thanks and hope you can make it!

Upcoming workshop with the Northern California Training Academy - Working with Incarcerated Parents

This two-day workshop provides social workers, resource families and other service providers with essential skills for responding to the needs of children of parents who are in prison.

September 21: Day one will focus on both social workers' perceptions and potential resistance to working with incarcerated parents. Participants will learn specific tools for facilitating a visit between an incarcerated parent and his/her child. Workshop will he held at International House, 10 College Park, Davis, CA

October 20: Day two includes a field trip to Folsom State Prison. Participants MUST attend the first session to attend this field trip. Following the morning visit to the prison, participants will debrief the visit and discuss tools needed to facilitate a visit between a child and an incarcerated parent.

More info here.

 

From Arrest to Homecoming—Addressing the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents

The following event is happening in just a few days!

The National Reentry Resource Center Webinar: "From Arrest to Homecoming—Addressing the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents"

The National Reentry Resource Center are hosting a free webinar on September 1^st to discuss the challenges faced by children of incarcerated parents. This webinar will cover the emotional and physical needs of children of incarcerated parents and the complex family dynamics among children, incarcerated parents, and caregivers. Presenters will share practical tips and sample resources developed by experienced service providers. This webinar, facilitated by Margaret diZerega, Family Justice program director at the Vera Institute of Justice, will feature presentations by Dee Ann Newell, Executive Director, Arkansas Voices for Children Left Behind and SFCIPP's Yali Lincroft, Independent Consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation and First Focus.

This webinar, supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, will be held at 2:00 P.M. (E.T.) on Wednesday, September 1, 2010.

A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. Register here. 

 

Applications Are Being Accepted For The 2010 National Family Caregiving Awards Program

Deadline for this is May 7, 2010.

The National Alliance for Caregiving and MetLife Foundation are pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the 2010 National Family Caregiving Awards Program. The request for applications is available online.  

Established in 1996, The National Alliance for Caregiving is a non-profit coalition of national organizations focusing on issues of family caregiving. Alliance members include grassroots organizations, professional associations, service organizations, disease-specific organizations, a government agency, and corporations. The Alliance was created to conduct research, do policy analysis, develop national programs and increase public awareness of family caregiving issues. Recognizing that family caregivers provide important societal and financial contributions toward maintaining the well-being of those they care for, the Alliance's mission is to be the objective national resource on family caregiving with the goal of improving the quality of life for families and care recipients.

Responding to the Needs of Children and Families of the Incarcerated in Health and Mental Health Settings

There are many questions regarding the existing conditions and health outcomes for children of incarcerated parents. The question of whether unaddressed health conditions both physical and emotional, create additional risks that can negate the protective factors provided by mentoring and other supportive programming ultimately leading to negative life outcomes is of great concern. There also many questions related to how health and mental health care providers can best support parent/caregivers and parent-child relationships for children with parents in prison or jail.

On May 5 beginning at 3:00 pm Easter, Family and Corrections Network will offer "Responding to the Needs of Children and Families of the Incarcerated in Health and Mental Health Settings," their next telephone traing in the "Systems Serving Children and Families of the Incarcerated" series. 

For the first time ever, Health and Mental Health Professionals will engage with those directly impacted by parental incarceration to address current thinking and recommend responses that will inform practice and policy in health care and in other community services for children and families of the incarcerated.

Registration or more information is here.

See You There

Gender and Incarceration in California

This annual symposium brings together scholars, community members, and policy makers around issues of gender and poverty in California. The theme for 2010 is gender and incarceration. Discussion will focus on reproductive rights for women in prison, the consequences of parents’ incarceration for children and families, styles of masculinity promoted by prison culture, and sexual violence.

Friday, April 23rd, 9am-5:30pm

Historic City Hall at Bistro 33, 226 “F” Street in Davis

SFCIPP’s Nell Bernstein will be there, and offering a focus on Family Impact Statement and issues affecting children when parents return home (among other things.)

Also speaking will be:

Cynthia Chandler, Director, Justice Now. Ruthie Gilmore, Professor, American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California. Valerie Jenness, Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine. Lori Sexton, PhD student, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine. Lateefah Simon, Executive Director, Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. Heidi Strupp, Advocacy Coordinator, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Wendy Still, Chief Adult Probation Officer, City and County of San Francisco.

More info is here.