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Author: Krupat, Tanya

Title: A Call to Action: A report of the New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents The Osborne Association Safeguarding New York’s Children of Incarcerated Parents

Summary: New York is home to an estimated 105,000 children of incarcerated parents; hundreds of thousands more have experienced their parent’s criminal justice involvement at some point in their lives. Yet some have called this an “orphan issue” as it belongs to no single agency or oversight body and there remains a great deal we do not know about the scope and impact of a parent’s incarceration on children. In the summer of 2010, a public/private coalition began a strategic planning process to address the practice and policy concerns facing New York’s children and families impacted by incarceration. This effort was built on the momentum of two existing and active interdisciplinary groups – the Osborne Association’s New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents (NY Initiative) and the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet Subcommittee on Children of Incarcerated Parents. The six-month planning effort included a series of five topical discussion meetings drawing on the expertise of people in the field (in both public and nonprofit agencies), and culminated in a one-day summit on November 15, 2010. The goal of the Summit, whose heading was “A Call to Action,” was to draw attention to the needs of children whose parents are in the criminal justice system and to develop recommendations for how the systems that touch their lives can minimize trauma and harm, and support their resiliency and success. The Summit was co-sponsored by the Diane Abbey Center for Children and Families at New York Law School and brought together more than 240 people representing 100 different agencies and organizations, as well as individuals directly affected by parental incarceration. The Summit opened with a panel of young people who have experienced parental incarceration, followed by a panel of commissioners of four state and local agencies. Underscoring the importance of including young people in discussions of policies and practices that affect them, the youth and commissioners then sat on the stage together to answer questions from the audience. This report builds on the planning process leading up to the Summit, and the actual Summit itself. As the Summit title stated, the purpose of this report is action. It is intended to be a tool that assists policymakers, practitioners, government agency staff, advocates, and families to enact positive changes to benefit the lives of New York’s children.

Details: New York: New York Inititive for Children of Incarcerated Parents, The Osborne Association, 2011. 88p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 4, 2011 at: http://www.osborneny.org/NYCIP/ACalltoActionNYCIP.Osborne2011.pdf

Year: 2011

Country: United States

URL: http://www.osborneny.org/NYCIP/ACalltoActionNYCIP.Osborne2011.pdf

Shelf Number: 122308

Keywords:
Children of Prisoners (New York)
Families of Inmates