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Children in Out-of-Home Care With Incarcerated Parents
Resources and information about working with children in or at risk of entering out-of-home care whose parents are incarcerated, including State and local examples.
Children With Parents in Prison: Child Welfare Policy, Program, and Practice Issues
Child Welfare League of America
Child Welfare, 77(5), 1998
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Explores the challenges facing the child welfare system in working with a growing population of children whose parents are incarcerated.
Children of Prisoners Library
Family and Corrections Network (2003)
Information sheets designed for people serving children of prisoners and their caregivers.
Information Packet: Babies Born to Incarcerated Mothers (PDF - 126 KB)
National Resource Center for Foster Care & Permanency Planning (2004)
Asserts that mothers who are able to parent should receive additional support services and specialized reunification plans.
Special Focus on Incarcerated Parents
Family Support America
America's Family Support Magazine, 22(3), 2003
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Focuses on incarcerated parents and describes some successful models for supporting families.
Transition Issues for Children of Incarcerated Parents (PDF - 481 KB)
Johnston
The Source, 13(2), 2004
Information about early and repeated parent-child separation, intervening with children of prisoners, and parent-child reunification.
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State and local examples
Hard Data on Hard Times: An Empirical Analysis of Maternal Incarceration, Foster Care, and Visitation (PDF - 163 KB)
Vera Institute of Justice (2004)
Uses foster care data from New York City's Administration for Children's Services and criminal history data from New York State's Division of Criminal Justice Services to examine the criminal histories of mothers of children who first entered foster care in fiscal year 1997.
Mitigating the Ill Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Women in Prison and Their Children
WATCH
Child Welfare, 81(6), 2002
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Suggests Minnesota law be modified to exempt parents in prison from the termination time line and recognize the value of attachments between children and their incarcerated mothers.
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