Brief
Understanding the community and family challenges that create conditions that disproportionately subject some youth to the juvenile justice system is critical to developing community-based interventions that offer a holistic approach to both preventing youth justice system involvement and setting justice-system-involved youth on a more positive path.
Most children benefit from maintaining healthy relationships with their parents, and this remains true when a parent is incarcerated. Yet caregivers of children whose parents are in prison or jail face unique emotional, financial, and logistical challenges, and these challenges can impact children and families. This tip sheet aims to support caregivers as they help children whose parents are incarcerated.
Brief
This brief provides an overview of the evidence supporting the interrelatedness of employment, healthy relationships, family well-being, and recidivism. It also gives the perspectives of expert program practitioners who are successfully integrating programming related to employment, prison reentry, healthy relationships, and responsible fatherhood. (Author abstract)