Children of Incarcerated Parents 3rd National Conference Virtual Conference Program

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April 14, 21 & 28, 2021

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Virtual Conference Information

Advancing Child Well-Being Locally, Nationally, and Globally.

Director’s Welcome Message Welcome to the 3rd National Children of Incarcerated Parents Conference. Our planning committee chose the theme for this year’s conference From Awareness to Action to highlight the urgency to put in place established practices and programs, promote policy reform and advocate to better the lives of children and families of the incarcerated.

Over the next three Wednesday’s practitioners, advocates, researchers and those with lived experience will share best practices and evidence-based programs, the challenges and successes of policy reform, and strategies for advocacy Judy Krysik, MSW, PhD and support. The goal is to share, dialogue and increase Director, ASU Center for Child Well-Being responsiveness to children and families. The conference coincides with child abuse prevention month, and it is our vision that the well-being of children, from before they are born through transition age youth, is considered in every aspect of parental incarceration, from pre-incarceration arrest through post incarceration re-entry.

We are extremely pleased to honor as this year’s Champions for Child Well-Being two individuals who have been with us since our first national conference, and who have supported the conference through their presentations and participation on the planning committee. They are Ebony Underwood, Founder of We Got Us Now, and Ann Adalist-Estrin, Director, National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University Camden. These are two phenomenal women who have each made and continue to make enormous positive impact. Please attend their sessions and congratulate them.

A huge welcome to Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (2021). Dr. Miller will be delivering the conference keynote April 21. Dr. Miller reminds us of the toll that incarceration can take on individuals and families long after one’s sentence has been served.

New to this year’s conference is the See Us Support Us (SUSU) Art Contest.

Be sure to stay with us on April 28th for the winners to be announced in the SUSU Social Hour.

Special thanks to Kelly Edmonson, Angela Ruffalo and Theresa Moore who handled the conference logistics on behalf of the Center for Child Well-Being. Thank you to our generous sponsors, including the ASU School of Social Work and our Community Advisory Board, for their support of this event.

Thank you for attending this year’s virtual conference. We hope that you will take time to enjoy the exhibits, expand your networks, and be better equipped for action. If there is any way we can make your experience better, don’t hesitate to let us know. We hope you will join us throughout the year for our monthly Lunch and Learn webinars, and next April for the 4th National Children of Incarcerated Parents Conference.

Sincerely, Judy Krysik

Thank you to our ASU administrators

Dr. James Herbert Williams Director, School of Social Work Arizona State University

James Herbert Williams research and scholarship focuses on K-12 academic performance, youth violence, delinquency prevention, adolescent substance use, race and gender differences, and mental health service needs and utilization patterns in urban schools.

Prior to joining ASU, he served as Professor, Dean, Distinguished Emil M. Sunley Endowed Chair, and Milton Morris Endowed Chair at the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work. He previously served at ASU as Foundation Professor of Youth and Diversity in the School of Social Work.

His funded research has included grants from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human

Development; the National Institute of Mental Health; the Danforth Foundation; the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease; and the departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services. Among his publications, Dr. Williams’ research and scholarship have focused on K-12 academic performance, youth violence, delinquency prevention, adolescent substance use, race and gender differences, and mental health service needs and utilization patterns in urban schools.

Williams also has published widely in the area of health promotion, disease prevention among African American women and, most recently, conflict and human security in Northern Kenya.

Dean Jonathan Koppell Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

Jonathan GS Koppell is the dean of the College of Public Service and Community Solutions and the Lattie and Elva Coor Presidential Chair in the School of Public Affairs. Dean Koppell has focused on preparing students for lives of community engagement and public service while promoting use-inspired research by faculty and research centers aimed at making our communities more prosperous, healthy and resilient. He has emphasized the transcendent focus on “public goods” that unifies the specializations of college’s four distinct schools (criminal justice, community development, public administration and policy, and social work) while

connecting the college to the broad range of relevant ASU programs.

Dean Koppell joined Arizona State University in 2D1D as director of the School of Public Affairs, from the Yale School of Management where he also directed the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written numerous opinion pieces for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other leading publications. In 2D12, he was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA).

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What will you find at CCWB? The Center for Child Well-Being combines the knowledge, expertise and resources of a large public research university with the operational capacity of state and community agencies working to serve vulnerable families and to advance solutions that would otherwise be unattainable.

Drawing on the expertise of our staff and faculty from across Arizona State University’s research enterprise, we work to increase resilience among families and to build safer and more vibrant communities for young people. Faculty researchers and students support, sustain, and improve community-based public services to children and families.

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Virtual Conference Policies

Please note that there is a strict no filming or live streaming policy for CIP 2021. Please refrain from the use of any recording in any of the sessions.

Social Media Policy Social media use is encouraged. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @CIP_Phx, @ASUChildWellBng and Instagram @ChildWellBeing to interact with us during and after the conference.

Suggested hashtags #CIP #CIP2021 #COIP #ChildrenofIncarceratedParents #Childrenwithincarceratedparents #childrenoftheincarcerated #massincarceration #SeeUsSupportUs #SUSU Virtual Conference Etiquette Please type any questions that you have for any of the presenters in the Q and A box. Please remember to mute your microphone when not speaking.

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Congratulations

Ann Adalist-Estrin

Director, National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated At Rutgers University Camden Ann Adalist-Estrin, Director of the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University/ Camden New Jersey is a renowned leader, advocate, educator, writer, speaker, and researcher in the fields of child well-being and children/families of the incarcerated.

Under Ann’s leadership, NRCCFI has provided training and consultation to government and nongovernment agencies and community programs worldwide, and in 2013 she was honored by the Obama White House as a “Champion of Change” for her work as an advocate for children and families of the incarcerated.

Ann has always been a huge supporter of the Center for Child Well-Being, and we are extremely to honored to name her one of this year’s Champions for Child Well-Being!

Words Matter #WordsMatter

We are committed to a conference framework that truly supports children and families impacted by incarceration. We encourage presenters to include content that will combat stigma by using language that does not label children, stereotype families or demonize incarcerated parents. In addition, perspectives that highlight an intergenerational cycle of crime or incarceration should be carefully crafted to accurately support the underlying causes of parental incarceration such as poverty, trauma and racism.

Think of how a child might feel when their parent is called a “criminal.” To children they are moms and dads first and forever. #WordsMatter and can signal to a child struggling with their parent’s incarceration that you are a safe space.

Creating safe spaces for children of incarcerated parents can reduce stigma and negative effects of separation from a parent. Join us in using thoughtful language when speaking of and with people with criminal justice involvement and their families.

Together we can change the narrative.

three quick tips

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Children are not targets Please refrain from using the word “target” when discussing an area of focus for Policy & Practice. Instead use “designed to support” or “will focus on the needs of.”

Thanks to The Osborne Association and The Opportunity Agenda for providing the main framework, verbiage, and content for this document.

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When referring to Native Americans, please refer to that person as a Native Person, Indigenous, or use their tribal association. Please stay away from the phrase American Indian.

When discussing incarceration we can use justice involved, justice impacted, incarcerated people, people convicted of crimes to describe individuals experiencing incarceration.

Additional thanks to Ann Adalist-Estrin, Director, National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University, Isabel Coronado, Next100, Alexandria Pech, University of Arizona, for their input and efforts.

Suggested phrasing surrounding justice related issues & the incarcerated Instead of...

Try...

Felons

People convicted of felonies

Criminals, Convicts

People convicted of crimes

Inmates

People in prison or jail

Prisoners

People who are currently incarcerated

Offenders

People who have committed offenses

Defendants

People accused of crimes

Illegal immigrants, Illegal aliens

People without documentation

Worst of the worst

People who have committed serious offenses

Violent offenders

People who have committed violent offenses

Non-violent offenders

People who have committed non-violent offenses

Ex-cons

People who have paid their debt to society

Parolees

People on parole

“Bad guys” or “crooks”

People charged with or accused of a crime

Sex offenders

People convicted of a sex crime

Juveniles

Youth or young people

Racial disparities, gaps

Obstacles to equal justice Discriminatory school justice Racial profiling Unconscious bias Resulting in unequal rates of arrest, incarceration, long sentences

Intergenerational cycle of incarceration

Intergenerational trauma or poverty, or systemic racism

Dangerous neighborhoods

Communities experiencing high levels of violence

Poor, at risk

Underserved, neglected

Minorities

BIPOC – Black, Indigenous People of Color

Homosexual, gay lifestyles

Gay, lesbian, LGBTQ people and their lives

Federal, state and local governments

Federal, state, tribal and local governments

Rape victim

Sexual assault survivor

Prostitute

Sex worker

Children at risk

Children of promise and resilience

Balancing safety and reform

Advancing safety and fairness

Victims versus offenders

Promoting healing for all who have been harmed

Punish crime

Prevent harm, promote community safety

Law and order

Accountability, rehabilitation, restoration, equal justice, due process

Tough on crime

Smart and appropriate responses

Children of INCARCERATED PARENTS

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Congratulations Ebony Underwood WE GOT US NOW, Founder/CEO

Ebony Underwood is the founder/ CEO of We Got Us Now, a national nonprofit/nonpartisan organization and movement built by, led by, and about children and young adults impacted by parental incarceration with the mission to ENGAGE, EDUCATE, ELEVATE & EMPOWER this historically invisible population. Ebony embodies what we all hope our system impacted children can grow to be; fearless warriors that turn their pain into power.

Ebony is a herald voice championing for the millions of children and young adults impacted by parental incarceration which is why we are so excited to announce her as one of this year’s Champions for Child Well-Being. Please join us in congratulating her and celebrating her incredible work!

April 14, 2021 — Practices and Programs Programs or a promising practices that positively affect children and families prior to incarceration (e.g., at arrest), during incarceration (visits and family camp, parenting, communication), or at release and re-entry.

Learn about programs and practices that are Large system programs and practices (child welfare, education, mental health, law enforcement, income support) as well as in nonprofits and service organizations that can be shared for implementation in other jurisdictions.

SESSION TIME

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8:00 am – 9:00 am

Bonding from Within: Promoting Parent Child Attachment

Alissa Stark MECE Program Area Supervisor, Kinnaman, Quatama & Coffee Creek Head Start Carmen Slothower, Teacher Coffee Creek Head Start Christy Collins, Family Advocate Coffee Creek Head Start

9:15 am – 10:15 am

Building Resilience and Amplifying Voice in Girls and Incarcerated Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Panel with Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (GSBB) Program Staff from across the United States

Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington • Panel Co-Organizer: Molly Branyan, GSBB Program Specialist • Panel Co-Organizer: Estephany Membreño, GSBB Program • Brittany Roach, Lifeskills Coordinator at Coffee Creek Corrections Facility • Chat Moderator: Amy Botula, Girl Scouts Beyond Bars Program Manager Girl Scouts of Arizona – Cactus Pine • Barb Strachan, Director of Social Impact Programs Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona • Colleen McDonald, Director of Programs Girl Scouts of Western Washington • Cheryl Martin, Volunteer Development Manager for GSBB

10:30 am – 11:30 am

11:30 pm – 12:00 pm

Friends of the Children’s Long-Term Professional Mentoring Model – Strengthening Resiliency Among Children and Families Impacted by Incarceration

Break

Carmi Brown MA, Chief Program Officer, Friends of the Children Susan Walsh PhD, Director of Research and Strategic Impact, Friends of the Children

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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating an Intervention for Children of Incarcerated Parents and Their Families: From Awareness to Action

Introduction to the Enhanced Visits Model: Working with Families and Systems Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, PhD, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Building Family Connections: Understanding ParentChild Contact Before and During Stays in Jail Pajarita Charles, MSW, MPA, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Capturing the Real-time Experiences of Families Affected by Parental Incarceration Margaret Kerr, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Convening to Explore the Power and Impact of Parenting Inside Out (PIO): A Parent Management Training Program Designed for and with Incarcerated Parents and their Familiess

Richard Hines-Norwood, PIO Program Manager and graduate of PIO, The Pathfinder Network

Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children: Separation, Loss, and Reunification

Discussant:

Leticia Longoria-Navarro, Interim Executive Director, The Pathfinder Network J. Mark Eddy, Professor and Co-author of PIO, Department of Educational Psychology and Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, Texas Center for Equity Promotion, College of Education, The University of Texas at Austin

Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, PhD, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Panelists: Longitudinal Perspectives on Mother-Child Separation Resulting from Incarceration Jane A. Siegel, PhD, Associate Dean, Rutgers University The Benefits of Doula Support for Women who are Pregnant in Prison and their Newborns Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Maternal Pre- and Post-Release Behaviors in a Residential Parenting Program (Prison Nursery) Amy E. Pace, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Maternal Imprisonment and the Timing of Children’s Foster Care Involvement Elizabeth J. Gifford, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Duke University Redefining Motherhood: Mothering in Mandated Inpatient Substance Use Treatment Lorie S. Goshin, PhD, RN, Hunter College, City University of New York

April 21, 2021 — Public Policy A look at successful policy at local, state and federal levels. Where was policy change successful, how was it achieved, and what was the effect? Sharing strategies for success. Identifying policies to promote across jurisdictions. Identifying what tactics work best for developing legislation and gaining support.

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8:00 am – 9:00 am

Children of Incarcerated Parents: Strategies for the Child, the Parent, and the Caregiver

Shari Ostrow Scher, Founder and Executive Director, Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, Inc. Cathy Anderson, Board Member, Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, Inc.rt

9:15 am – 10:15 am

Babies ‘N Brains TM: The Impact of Parental Incarceration on Early Brain Development

Jada Hunter, MSW, Deputy Director, Program Development, Children of Inmates, Inc. Shellie Solomon, PhD, President, Children of Inmates, Inc

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Champion for Child Well-Being Ann Adalist-Estrin, Director Invited Policy Session National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University Camden

11:30 pm – 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Mitigating Trauma of Law Enforcement

Lisa Thurau, Executive Director, Strategies for Youth, Inc. Samara Marion, attorney and former policy director of the Department of Police Accountability in San Francisco

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Champion for Child Well-Being Ebony Underwood including We Got Us Now Invited Policy Session: We Got Community Members & Allies Us Now: Advocacy to Policy

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Keynote Speaker – Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller, author, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller, author, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Keynote Speaker Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration “Mass incarceration has changed the social life of the city. It has filtered into the most intimate relationships and deformed the contours of American democracy, one poor (and most often) Black family at a time.”

– Reuben Jonathan Miller As a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and as a sociologist studying mass incarceration, Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller has spent years alongside prisoners, formerly incarcerated people, their families, and their friends to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work reveals is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison.

Miller’s new book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, is a portrait of the many ways mass incarceration reaches into American life, sustaining structural racism and redrawing the boundaries of our democracy. Drawing from fifteen years of research, over 250 in-depth interviews with citizens whose lives have been touched by the criminal justice system, and his own experience as the son and brother of incarcerated Black men, Miller shows how the American carceral system was not created to rehabilitate. Instead he reveals how its design keeps classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society.

“As Miller shows so powerfully, the damage done by this system has been so insidious, and so comprehensive, that certain Americans are always, in effect, doing time and, thus, to undo this crisis, and for most incarcerated Americans to truly ever be able to come ‘home,’ will mean doing a whole lot more work than we have yet done.” – Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy Each year, more than half a million American citizens are released from prison and join an ever-growing population people who live with a felony record—currently a staggering twenty million. But, as Miller forcefully illustrates, the idea that one can serve one’s time and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America’s most pernicious myths. Formerly incarcerated people returning to the outside face jobs that are off-limits, housing they are barred from occupying, family members they are forbidden to stay with, and votes they cannot cast.

Halfway Home was praised by NPR as “impressive.… Miller writes in prose that is at once powerful and engaging — and combines an abundance of data with the lived experiences of the people the numbers represent.… Halfway Home shines a light on a wide range of absurdities baked into an inherently unjust system.” The book earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal. As Publishers Weekly noted, “this bracing account makes clear just how high the deck is stacked against the formerly incarcerated.”

“Halfway Home is a vital and compelling account of the entangled legacies of racism, crime, and punishment in America.

Miller shows how the nation’s experiment with mass incarceration harms those far removed from the prison’s bars…. This persuasive and essential work weaves together moral philosophy, in-depth interviews, legal theory, and personal history, reckoning with the meaning of justice and redemption in an unjust society.” – Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted Miller walks alongside many of these people as they navigate the tightrope of a highly restrictive society often at direct odds with the requirements of their parole, relegated to a “hidden social world and an alternate legal reality.” Weaving throughout his own struggle to best support his brother navigating the criminal justice system, Miller lays plain how this “afterlife” of incarceration catches loved ones in its net as well.

An “indictment of the criminal justice system [that] should trouble the soul of the nation” (NPR), Halfway Home is a call to action that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy—and in the process get us no closer to justice or rehabilitation. Miller demands America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens – both in our policies and in our ethos.

Miller is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration. Before coming to Chicago, he was an assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan, a faculty affiliate with the Populations Studies Center, the Program for Research on Black Americans, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; a fellow at New America and the Rockefeller Foundation; and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago, he lives with his wife and children on the city’s South Side.

For more information on Reuben Jonathan Miller, please visit him on Twitter or at https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/r-miller.

April 28, 2021 — Community Advocacy How to help prepare those who are affected to tell their stories to advocate, as well as presentations that provide a roadmap for how to organize and build coalitions, and how to elevate the needs of all communities including those that are disproportionately affected –e.g., Native American, African American and Latinx populations, rural populations. Addressing ethical issues involved in advocacy, such as when is engaging children & families exploitative, how do you use the intergenerational cycle language without inducing stigma, and how do you monitor social media to gain allies and leverage support? Sharing successes so that others may replicate that success and learn from those experiences . We welcome collaborations between personally impacted, community organizers, advocacy professionals and program providers.

SESSION TIME

SESSION DESCRIPTION

PRESENTER

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Incarcerated Parents’ Explanations of the Criminal Justice System to their Children: Structural Inequality and Individual Autonomy

Sarah Jensen, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Bryce Peterson, Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute Justice Policy Center Lindsey Cramer, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute Justice Policy Center

9:15 am – 10:15 am

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Working with Incarcerated Fathers and Their Families: Resources Available Through the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse

Rush Bishop, ICF, National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse

Centering Lived Experience, Building Partnerships, Taking Action

Presenter: New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents (NYCIP)

James Worthy National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse Consultant & Community Outreach Coordinator

Moderator: Tanya Krupat, Director of the Center for Justice Across Generations, The Osborne Association Isabel Coronado, Policy Entrepreneur, The Next100 Martin Garcia, NYCIP Partner and Osborne Speakers Bureau member Anthony Funes, Youth Action Council Alumni & SUSU Youth Team Pastor Patricia Sealy, DMin, PhD, Mott Haven Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents Abigail Ramos, Policy Intern, Advocacy Workshop Facilitator, Osborne Youth Action Council

SESSION TIME

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PRESENTER

11:30 pm – 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 pm -1:00pm

Is Higher Education Doing Enough to Support Students Affected by Parental and Familial Incarceration?

1:15 pm - 3:30 pm

See Us, Support Us Allison Hollihan, Information Session and Social The Osborne Association and New York Initiative for Hour Children of Incarcerated Parents

Ayanna J. Lyons, Straight Ahead

Sunovia Scudder, SUSU Youth Team Advisor Shannon Ellis, Assistant Director of Climate & Culture, School District of Philadelphia SUSU partners

Arizona ranks 4th in incarceration rate among the states (Casey, 2017), with approximately one in nine children having one or both parents incarcerated. Parental incarceration is one of the 10 ACEs listed by the CDC that adversely impact a child’s well-being.

The ASU Center for Child Well-Being has compiled a list of fiction books featuring justice-impacted children. We need your help getting these books into the hands of the children who need them.

How can you help?

1. Whether or not you and your children are justice-impacted, read and discuss some of the books to help decrease the stigma of incarceration through empathy.

2. Spread the word! Encourage others to read books from the list and encourage them to donate.

3. Share the list with your local schools and libraries and let them know that featuring these books is important to your community.

4. To donate visit https://childwellbeing.asu.edu/CIPBooks

Numbers clearly show that education and training in prisons work. The cost to educate incarcerated individuals and help them become productive members of society is much less than the billions spent annually on incarceration.

When inmates participate in educational programs, the recidivism rate drops significantly.

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The number of logins and duration on the USDoL CareerOneStop Reentry Jobsite on incarcerated individuals' GTL tablets.

Reentry begins at entry—placing the tools needed for successful reentry in the hands of an incarcerated individual is priceless.

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The number of unique users and completions earned through GTL's Learning Management System.

GTL recognizes the difference that access to educational content and programs can make for incarcerated individuals and reducing recidivism.

GTL is a proud supporter of Second Chance Month and is focused on identifying new content that will aid in successful reentry.

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Speaker Information Ann Adalist-Estrin – Director, National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated Rutgers University Ann Adalist-Estrin, Director of the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University/ Camden New Jersey is a renowned leader, advocate, educator, writer, speaker, and researcher in the fields of child well-being and children/families of the incarcerated.

Under Ann’s leadership, NRCCFI has provided training and consultation to government and non-government agencies and community programs worldwide, and in 2013 she was honored by the Obama White House as a “Champion of Change” for her work as an advocate for children and families of the incarcerated.

Bree Anderson – We Got Us Now Actionist Bree Anderson is a native New Orleanian advocate, social entrepreneur and trauma expert, in view of parental incarceration and her story has been featured on talk shows, panels, podcasts and news articles about how mass incarceration affects children.

Her social experience led her to become a community leader by helping to eliminate race-based discrimination as a former committee member of the NAACP and actively serve as a member of Innocence Project New Orleans Young Professional Committee to defy society’s stereotype of children with incarcerated parents.

Bree has been nominated for several awards in 2019 including Champion of Change and Forbes 30 under 30, Forbes Next 1000, Jason Williams DA Transition Team, Community Advisory Group Safety & Justice committee. As well as, the Co-Founder of Daughters Beyond Incarceration, a non-profit geared towards enhancing the overall life of girls with incarcerated fathers.

Partnership. In pre-Covid 19 times, She co-taught classes in ‘’ Parenting from Afar” to women in the local detention center.

She also worked on writing the curriculum for the classes. Cathy is a retired early childhood teacher. Prior to teaching in the public schools, she taught at the Maryland School for the Deaf.

Rush Bishop – National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse Mr. Rush Bishop is a Research Data Analyst for ICF and specializes in community and stakeholder outreach and logistics coordination. In addition, Mr. Bishop has presented and exhibited at over 20 conferences, written dozens of successful conference proposals for multiple projects within ICF, provides technical support for Zoom based webinars and conferences, has direct experience with strengthening technical and community college curriculum, webbased research, website building, and survey administration. In 2018, Mr. Bishop won the Junior Innovator of Year award from the Public Sector Group, ICF’s largest group, for his efficiencies with conference coordination.

Amy Botula – Girl Scouts Beyond Bars Amy Botula is grateful for the opportunity to support GSBB and Troop 40060. After 16 years in the classroom and five years assisting multiple Portland area nonprofits, including four years of teaching yoga at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, joining GSOSW in January 2018 was the natural next step. Amy dedicates her life to the belief that all people can thrive when given access to the necessary tools.

She is proud of all the work that the girls and women of Troop 60 do every day and just as proud of the GSBB staff and volunteers.

Cathy Anderson – Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership

Molly Branyan – Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership

Cathy has been a volunteer for 7 years and a board member for 2 years with COIPP, Children of Incarcerated Parents

Molly joined Girl Scouts of Oregon and SW Washington in May 2019. Before joining the GSBB team, Molly worked

in primate conservation and most recently worked in a sanctuary caring for Gorillas. She has extensive experience in the non-profit sector working with underserved communities. Her education is in Anthropology and Primate Behavior and Ecology with additional studies and fieldwork in Human Rights and Social Justice in the Mediterranean and North Africa. She is passionate about the work GSBB does and strives to provide girls with unique, interactive, and fun experiences that promote personal growth, resiliency and empower girls to lead.

Carmi Brown – Friends of the Children Carmi Brown is the Chief Program Officer for Friends of the Children. She has worked in the human services field for over 18 years, with most of her work being in the area of child welfare. She has held multiple positions within the public and private sector and began her work with Friends of the Children as the Program Director for our Friends –Tampa Bay chapter. Carmi lives in Tampa with her husband and three children and is an active member of several community organizations such as the Tampa Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and The Greater Tampa Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Carol Burton – Jeweld Legacy Group/ Bay Area CIPP CEO and Principal, Jeweld Legacy Group/ Bay Area CIPP Pajarita Charles – School of Social Work University of Wisconsin - Madison Pajarita Charles, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of WisconsinMadison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work. Her work focuses on the development, implementation, and testing of family-focused interventions to promote positive psychosocial and behavioral health outcomes among children and families affected by the criminal justice system.

She is a co-leader of the national Promote Smart Decarceration Grand Challenge

Speaker Information network for the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. She also frequently collaborates with local and state organizations to provide expertise and guidance on issues pertinent to families impacted by the criminal justice system.

support and facilitate more frequent contact and communication between incarcerated parents and their children.

Child Maltreatment Prevention research Team. She is trained as a health services researcher and demographer.

J. Mark Eddy – The University of Texas at Austin

Lorie Goshin – Hunter College, City University of New York

Tia Clary – Rutgers School of Social Work

J. Mark Eddy, Ph.D. is clinical psychologist, prevention scientist, and Professor of Educational Psychology and Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Texas Center for Equity Promotion.

He specializes in conducting rigorous longitudinal studies of prevention and intervention programs intended to benefit children and families, and particularly those who are living in stressful circumstances.

His work centers on the conduct of randomized controlled trials of multimodal interventions implemented within systems of care and with non-profit organizations that partner with these systems.

Lorie Smith Goshin, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Hunter College in the City University of New York.

One of her first nursing jobs was taking care of children detained in a county jail. She now researches criminal justice involvement as a social determinant of health, with a particular focus on women and minor children. She has studied the mother and child effects of a prison nursery, nursing care of incarcerated pregnant people, parenting stress in women on probation and parole, and community alternatives to incarceration for women.

Christy Collins – Head Start Community Action Christy Collins holds a Bachelor’s Degree in bilingual- cross cultural elementary education from California State University, Stanislaus. She has taught preschool through 6th grade in public and private schools for 15 years in both California and Oregon. Her passions include helping people to see their full potential and learning to see the positive in all situations. Currently she is a family advocate for mothers of incarcerated children with the Community Action Head Start at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Isabel Coronado – Next100 Isabel Coronado is a policy entrepreneur at Next100 and a citizen of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. Her clan is the Wind Clan, and her tribal town affiliation is Thlopthlocco Tribal Town. At Next100, Isabel is focused on creating policy aimed at reducing the generational cycle of incarceration in Native communities.

Lindsey Cramer – The Urban Institute Lindsey Cramer is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, where her research focuses on the impact of the justice system on fathers, children, and families, as well as the correctional and community-based interventions designed to mitigate the effects of parental justice involvement.

Specifically, Cramer leads evaluations of responsible fatherhood programs and projects designed to develop and implement family-focused policies in correctional institutions at the local and state level to

Olivia Elder – FWD.us

Richard Hines-Norwood – The Pathfinder Network PIO Program Manager and graduate of PIO, The Pathfinder Network

Partnership and Engagement Associate, Families and Incarceration Allison Hollihan – The Osborne Association Shannon Ellis – School District of Philadelphia Assistant Director of Climate & Culture, School District of Philadelphia Anthony Funes – Youth Action Council Alumni & SUSU Youth Team

Martin Garcia – NYCIP Partner and Osborne Speakers Bureau member

Allison Hollihan, LMHC, is the Senior Policy Manager for the New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents (NYCIP), a special project of the Center for Justice Across Generations at the Osborne Association. She advocates for policies and practices in New York State and beyond that promote the well-being of children with parents involved in the criminal legal system. Her work is informed by her clinical background, collaborations with children and families, and the incarceration of her sister.

Elizabeth Gifford – Duke University Elizabeth J. Gifford, PhD is an associate research professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Center for Child and Family Policy and Duke Pediatrics.

She directs the Social and Economic Factors pillar of the Children’s Health and Discovery Initiative and leads the

Jessica Houser – Community Action Participant Jada Hunter – Children of Inmates. Inc. Deputy Director, Program Development Children of Inmates. Inc.

Kelly Irish – The Pathfinder Network Kelly Irish, MSW, CSWA, is the Director of Community Programs at The Pathfinder Network, where she oversees the agency’s Center for Family Success. She plays an integral role in ensuring TPN’s community programs are fully supported to deliver holistic, wraparound prevention and intervention services to systemimpacted adults, children and families in Multnomah County. With a people centered approach and vast experience working in the fields of criminal justice and social work, she has created a culture where TPN can make a lasting impact for each person who walks through the door.

Ashley Jackson – We Got Us Now Actionist

Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology and a State Specialist in Vulnerable and Underserved Children with the Division of Extension. She received her doctorate in Positive Developmental Psychology from Claremont Graduate University. Her work focuses on examining parents’ emotional experiences, with a particular focus on the factors that influence how adults perceive and experience parenting, including attachment, relationship quality, and socioeconomic status. In her outreach work through Extension, she develops and implements parent-focused programming, including a parenting podcast for fathers who are incarcerated.

Tanya Krupat – Director, Center for Justice Across Generations - The Osborne Association

Sarah Jensen – University of Wisconsin-Madison Sarah Jensen is a JD/PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies incarcerated parenthood and their children, the collateral consequences of incarceration, and evidence-based practices towards a more equitable criminal justice system. Sarah works with Dr. Julie Poehlmann-Tynan on a feasibility study to enhance visits between incarcerated parents and their children through guided visit coaching and subsidized video visiting. Prior to her research at UW-Madison, Sarah worked with justice-involved youth living with mental health conditions. Sarah received her M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.A. from Kenyon College.

Kamaal Jones – Stanford Pediatrics Pediatrics Resident at Stanford Children’s Hospital, Previous Co-Chair of the Stanford Pediatrics Advocacy Council Margaret Kerr – University of Wisconsin-Madison Margaret Kerr, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Human Development &

Ayanna Lyons – Straight Ahead Ayanna Lyons (she/her) is the Policy Advocate w/ Straight Ahead. Straight Ahead is restoring justice to communities by building a statewide decarceration movement & dismantling institutions of state violence. She has degrees in Public Relations and Philosophy from Rowan University. She orked with AmeriCorps NCCC building communities through direct service and disaster relief in the MidWest. She also worked for The Petey Greene Program, coordinating/training volunteers to tutor inside NJ prisons. Racial Inequity, Prison Abolition, & Public Policy form the foundation of Ayanna’s work. She is currently pursuing her MPA at Delaware State University.

Samara Marion – Attorney

Tony Lewis

Attorney and former policy director of the Department of Police Accountability in San Francisco

Leticia Longoria-Navarro – The Pathfinder Network

Cheryl Martin – Girl Scouts of Western Washington

Leticia Longoria-Navarro, B.A., M.S. is the Executive Director at The Pathfinder Network where she leads and supports the management, direction and strategic vision of the organization and all community and correctional programs serving justice-impacted individuals.

She is a skilled leader, practitioner, developer, trainer and evaluator working in and around the criminal justice system.

Her diverse and distinctive experiences include working inside correctional institutions, in community corrections, with nonprofit organizations and in the educational system. A child herself of incarcerated parents, she has real life experience navigating the criminal justice system to stay connected to her parents.

Cheryl Martin is the Girl Scout Beyond Bars (GSBB) Program Manager and has worked in the program for over 8 years. In her role she provides programming for girls and their justice involved parent. At the core of the program is building and maintaining the parent/child bond. Her passion for serving children of justice involved parents derived from her own life experience. Over the past 21 years, she has raised a niece, two grand-nephews and 2 grandnieces, witnessing first-hand the impact that parental incarceration has on children. She is passionate about elevating the voices of those the GSBB program serves.

Christina Martinez

Kate Luther – Pacific Lutheran University

Colleen McDonald – Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona

Associate Professor of Sociology, Department Chair of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Colleen McDonald is the Director of Staff Supported Programs whose goal is to provide equitable programming to all

Speaker Information girls throughout Southern Arizona. Her passion is promoting, understanding, and creating opportunity for people of all ages. She is particularly interested in prevention and advocacy and her hopes to spread understanding and create partnerships throughout our community.

Her experience is primarily with nonprofits and has built her career through human services, education, and grass roots organizing. Colleen received her BA in 2000 from Goddard College with a focus on Peace and Conflict Studies.

Estephany Membreño – Girl Scouts of Oregon and SW Washington Estephany is a dedicated GSBB Program Specialist. She works to inspire, support, and introduce girls to new and fun experiences. Over the last 12 years, Estephany has served on humanitarian projects both locally and internationally working with youth of all ages and on social justice projects with various communities. Estephany is proud to approach her work with compassion and a social-justice lens. She brings to GSBB strategies for being culturally inclusive by applying her lived and overall cultural competency background and equity framework. Her vision is to foster and preserve the family bond and meaningfully cultivate resilient girls.

Dr. Reuben Miller – University of Chicago/Author Dr. Miller is an Assistant Professor with University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration whose published research examines life at the intersections of race, poverty, crime control, and social welfare policy. Dr. Miller is also an author and his latest book, Halfway Home, is a culmination of 16 years of research and practice with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, their families, and the people they turn to for help.

Angelica Morales – Rutgers University-Camden

Laura Napolitano – Rutgers University Laura Napolitano is the Undergraduate Program Coordinator and an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Rutgers–Camden.

Broadly, she focuses on inequality among families using cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs. Her work investigates how the daily experiences of low- and middle-income families shape broader patterns of social stratification.

She also studies the perspectives of adolescents and young adults from less resourced families as they encounter, and overcome, structural limitations and unequal social institutions such as the criminal justice and child welfare systems.

Poehlmann-Tynan served as an advisor to Sesame Street to help develop and evaluate their Emmy-nominated initiative for young children with incarcerated parents called Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration. She is the editor of three monographs, a book, and a handbook focusing on children with incarcerated parents. Her blog can be found at www.kidswithincarceratedparents.com.

Jamie Puckett – Community Action Community Action Partner Abigail Ramos – Osborne Association

Kelsey Riordan – Friends of the Children

Amy Pace – University of Washington Dr. Amy Pace is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington.

She is also a clinically certified and licensed speech-language pathologist and director of the Child Language Research Laboratory. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Partnership for Healthy Parenting, a program aimed at supporting incarcerated mothers and their infants.

Dr. Pace’s research focuses on language acquisition, assessment, and intervention in young children. Her approach is familycentered, investigating how parent-child interaction and early learning environments promote healthy development.

Bryce Peterson – Urban Institute Justice Policy Center Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute Justice Policy Center Julie Poehlmann-Tynan – University of Wisconsin-Madison Julie Poehlmann-Tynan is the Dorothy A. O’Brien Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The goal of her research is to facilitate social justice for children and their families and to promote resilience processes while decreasing risk and trauma exposure. Dr.

Brittany Roach – Oregon DOC-Coffee Creek Correctional Facility Lead Life Skills Coordinator for Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison.

Sheri Sandoval – The Pathfinder Network I have had the privilege over the last 8 years to work with parents across the state of Oregon who have unfortunately experienced separation from their children through incarceration. As a mother and grandmother, I am a passionate supporter of the Parenting Inside Out program because it starts parents on a journey of working to understand themselves and their children and how they can play a pivotal role in helping their children reach destination adulthood with the characteristics they hope for them. In my free-time, I enjoy spending time with my family, listening to music and crafting.

Shari Scher – COIPP Shari Ostrow Scher is Founder/ Executive Director of Children of incarcerated Parents Partnership. Shari has spent 52 years as an educational leader serving as a teacher, supervisor and adjunct professor. She now works tirelessly

on behalf of children impacted by incarceration. Shari has won many awards, this year including ‘Volunteer of the Year’ for the state of Maryland, the prestigious Wertheimer Award of the Community Foundation of Frederick County, and the ‘Woman of the Year’ for Women’s Democratic League of Frederick, County. Shari has traveled the world, and loves spending time with her husband, children, grandchildren and the family dog.

families and incarcerated individuals.

She is currently principal investigator for an evaluation of reentry programs for individuals with opioid abuse disorders at a local jail.

Sunovia Scudder – See Us Support Us Youth Team

“Mrs. Slothower holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Human Development and Family Studies from Warner Pacific University. Her work with children and families spans over 20 years including the role of an Early Childhood Educator for the Teen Parent Program with the Tigard-Tualatin School District, Head Start Teacher with Neighborhood House Head Start in Portland, and as the Head Start Teacher with Community Action Head Start at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon since 2012.

Graduate of Rowan University who has been impacted by parental incarceration and has served as the 2020 SUSU youth team advisor.

Dr. Patricia Sealy – Children’s Haven: A Place of Healing & Hope, Inc.

Rebecca Shlafer – University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Dr. Shlafer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota’s Medical School.

Her research and teaching activities are focused on the intersections of mass incarceration and public health. She has led numerous research studies examining the impact of incarceration on parents and children’s health and well-being .

Jane Siegel – Rutgers UnivesrityCamden Jane Siegel is professor of criminal justice and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. She is the author of Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison (Rutgers University Press, 2011), an in-depth qualitative investigation of children of incarcerated mothers and their families.

Her research has focused on the impacts of incarceration and reentry on children,

Steffany Silsby – Community Action Partner Carmen Slothower – Community Action

Shellie Solomon – President, Children of Inmates, Inc. Alissa Stark – Community Action

police/youth interactions and reducing disproportionate minority contact. SFY trains law enforcement officers, to use developmentally appropriate, traumainformed, racially equitable practices, and works with law enforcement agencies to adopt policies and partnerships that enhance and protect children and youth.

Ebony Underwood – WE GOT US NOW Ebony Underwood is the founder/ CEO of Wegotusnow, a national nonprofit/nonpartisan organization and movement built by, led by, and about children and young adults impacted by parental incarceration with the mission to ENGAGE, EDUCATE, ELEVATE & EMPOWER this historically invisible population. Ebony embodies what we all hope our system impacted children can grow to be; fearless warriors that turn their pain into power. Ebony is a herald voice championing for the millions of children and young adults impacted by parental incarceration.

Susan Walsh – Director of Research and Strategic Impact - Friends of the Children

Lisa Thurau – Strategies for Youth

Susan Walsh focuses on the development of proof points supporting program quality improvement, long-range sustainability, and policy development to advance the mission of Friends of the Children. She oversees data and evaluation, including a longitudinal RCT and Social Innovation Fund implementation evaluation. Prior to joining Friends, Susan served as Executive Director of Committed Partners for Youth in Eugene, OR. Susan holds a B.S. degree from Georgetown University, a law degree from Villanova University, and a doctorate in special education from the University of Oregon.

Lisa Thurau is the founder and executive director of Strategies for Youth, a national nonprofit training and policy organization dedicated to improving

James Worthy – NRFC Consultant & Community Outreach Coordinator Children of Inmates, Inc.

Alissa Stark is currently the Program Area Supervisor for Community Action Head Start at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Barbara Strachan – Girl Scouts Arizona-Cactus-Pine Council Director-Social Impact Programs, Girl Scouts Arizona-Cactus-Pine Council

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