This page provides a continually-updated list of tools, guides, and resources to assist teachers, school staff, youth, parents, and youth-serving organizations in caring for and supporting children who have an incarcerated parent.

Building Financial Capability: A Planning Guide for Integrated Services

A new interactive guide from ACF helps community-based and youth-serving organizations integrate financial capability services into existing programs.

IdentityTheft.gov

IdentityTheft.gov is a new website, developed by the FTC, that can help people report and recover from identity theft. This resource can help users understand the critical steps to take if identity theft occurs and includes printable checklists and sample letters. IdentityTheft.gov also features information on child identity theft and ...

Recovering from Identity Theft

In 2014, the Federal Trade Commission received more than 330,000 complaints related to identity theft. IdentityTheft.gov can help people understand which critical steps to take first.

Youth Violence Protective Factors

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control convened a panel of experts in the fields of youth development, violence prevention, and analytic methods to discuss protective influences against youth violence and how these can shape prevention efforts. Work from this panel is featured ...

When a Parent Is Incarcerated

Developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and featured on the Children's Bureau's website, this guide provides information to public child welfare agencies and caseworkers on working with incarcerated parents and their children. Goals of the primer include familiarizing child welfare professionals with the impact of incarceration and providing information ...

Tips for Parents, Teachers, and Other Caregivers for Talking with Children Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events

This presentation, developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, discusses typical responses that children and youth of specific ages may display after experiencing a traumatic event, as well as how parents, caregivers, and teachers can support recovery for young people of all ages. ...

The Adoption and Safe Families Act: Barriers to Reunification between Children and Incarcerated Parents

This information packet, developed by the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections and featured on the Children's Bureau website, addresses how certain provisions of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) create barriers to reunification for incarcerated mothers. The packet also includes information about amendments that some states have ...

Podcast: Teen Pregnancy Prevention for LGBTQ Youth

In a podcast featured in the latest update from the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth, Bryan Samuels, commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, and Andrew Barnett, executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League, discuss the need to include ...

Video Visiting in Corrections: Benefits, Limitations, and Implementing Considerations

This guide from the National Institute of Corrections can help inform administrators working in correctional settings about the benefits and challenges of using “video visiting,” in which incarcerated individuals communicate with family members via video conferencing technology or virtual software programs. The guide includes three chapters that address: (1) reasons ...

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