Children of Incarcerated Parents

Founded in 2008, The Garden of Hope Community Development Corporation (The Garden of Hope) serves a vital role in the health and sustainability of the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office programming for incarcerated parents and their families. The Garden of Hope is a local faith-based organization that provides services, programs, and resources ...

Program Description To achieve the reunification of families and reduced recidivism among previously incarcerated parents, Second Chances provides a host of parenting and therapy supports for incarcerated parents, custodial parents, and children throughout the period of incarceration. It is a multi-pronged program that consists of parenting classes with a letter writing ...

The Need Within the United States’ population of roughly 2.1 million incarcerated individuals, 54 percent are fathers who have one or more children under the age of 18.1 This phenomenon remains true in Norfolk, Virginia, where the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office’s Second Chances program is located. Given that a notable portion of ...

Zhao, Q., Cepeda, A., Chou, C., & Valdez, A. (2020). Maternal incarceration trajectories and the intergenerational transmission of imprisonment: A nationwide study. Children and Youth Services Review, 118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105461 Crain, C. M. (n.d.). Children of Offenders and the Cycle of Intergenerational Incarceration. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved from https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/documents/gokids_Crain.pdf Foley, J., ...

Research study on Mental Management Mindful Movements Training: Smith, H. P., Ferdik, F., Turner, A. L., & Radcliffe, S. (2022). An evaluation of a yoga program designed for correctional administrators and officers. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 61(1), 37-60. doi:10.1080/10509674.2021.2017385  Other publications on or from Connecting for Success: Getting the Most Out of Parent-Teacher ...

Throughout the course of its six-year existence, Connecting for Success implemented several support services to incarcerated parents and young people who have or have had incarcerated parents that have shown positive outcomes. Among the supports that staff deem most successful are the 72-hour stability plan, the Anger Management Mindful Movements ...

The services offered through Connecting for Success are possible due to an ongoing, productive collaboration between the Dorchester County Health Department and the Dorchester Department of Corrections (DDC). Leadership at the DDC facility, where incarcerated fathers and corrections officers now receive yoga and psychoeducation instruction, agreed to accommodate Connecting for ...

Connecting for Success, which takes a multi-generational approach to addressing intergenerational incarceration, launched with the help of local funding in 2016, and in 2018 the program received federal funding as a Second Chance Act grantee of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). The ...