Links for Families and Friends

 Children of Prisoners Library: Tips on Visiting a Parent in Prison
   http://www.fcnetwork.org/cpl/CPL105-VisitingMom.html

Oregon Department of Human Services: Children Visiting Incarcerated Parents
   http://www.dhs.state.or.us/caf/safety_model/procedure_manual/appendices/ch4-app/4-16.pdf

Assisting Families of Inmates: Visiting Tips
   http://www.afoi.org/strategies/visiting.html and http://www.afoi.org/strategies/preparing.html

Assisting Families of Inmates: Coping Strategies
   http://www.afoi.org/strategies/coping.html

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Parenting Issues During Incarceration
   http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/prison2home02/Hairston.htm

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Services to Children and Families of Prisoners
   http://www.childwelfare.gov/famcentered/overview/approaches/prisoners.cfm

Forever Family: Surround Children with the Love of Family!
   http://www.foreverfam.org/index.php

Project W.H.A.T. (We're Here And Talking) for teens!
   http://www.communityworkswest.org/index.php/project-what

Corrections Foundation: Florida project donating books for children visiting incarcerated parents
   http://www.correctionsfoundation.org/news/08022007.html

National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated
   http://fcnetwork.org/

Telephone Campaign for Equitable Charges
   http://www.eTcCampaign.com/etc/

Online Support Forums: Daily Strength
   http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Families-of-Prisoners/support-group

Online Support Forums: Prison Talk
   http://www.prisontalk.com/

Prison Talk: Support group for parents with children in prison
   http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=75

Arkansas

   Arkansas Voices

http://www.arkansasvoices.org/

California

   Center Force

http://www.centerforce.org/

   Friends Outside

http://www.friendsoutside.org/

   San Francisco: Children of Incarcerated Parents

http://www.sfcipp.org/

Delaware

   Link of Love

http://www.linkoflove.org/

Georgia
   Fairness for Prisoners' Families

http://www.fairness4families.org/

Missouri

   Chillicothe Correctional Center - Program for children and their incarcerated moms

http://www.chillicothepatch.org/

New York

   NY City: Family and Justice

http://www.familyjustice.org/

   NY State: The Osborne Association

http://www.osborneny.org/index.cfm

Oregon
   Oregon Dept. of Corrections - Children of Incarcerated Parents Project

http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/TRANS/PROGMS/oam_children.shtml

Virginia

   Assisting Families of the Incarcerated

http://www.afoi.org/

Technical Assistance to create direct services for children and families
   http://www.arkansasvoices.org/technical

Forever Family: Surround Children with the love of Family - start a program in your area
   http://www.foreverfam.org/natrep.php

Family Justice Institute
   http://www.familyjustice.org/

Prison Activist Resource Center
   http://www.prisonactivist.org/

Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants / C.U.R.E.
   http://www.curenational.org

Justice Works grassroots criminal justice reform organization
   http://justiceworks.info/default.aspx

American Civil Liberties Union: Key Issues
   http://www.aclu-wa.org/issues/criminal-justice

Families Against Mandatory Minimums FAMM
   http://www.famm.org/

The Sentencing Project
   http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/index.cfm

Action Plan for Federal Policy Makers concerning Children of Incarcerated parents
   http://reentrypolicy.org/jc_publications/federa_action_plan_
   /Children_Incarcerated_Parents_v8.pdf