Coming Home from Prison: Family Matters (IEJ Seminar)

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During her presentation, Dr. Creasie Finney Hairston, Professor and Dean of the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago, provides an overview of how families experience and manage community reentry. Based primarily on research conducted with men returning home from prison and their wives and girlfriends, the presentation describes the impact of incarceration and community reentry on family relationships. Families as sources of support, conflict and domestic violence, parent-child relationships, and parole practices and expectations are among the topics covered. Comments were provided by Stephen Gavazzi (Professor of Human Development and Family Science, Ohio State University); Kim Hettel (Family Reentry Project Manager, Ohio Governor's Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives); and Rachael Woldoff (Assistant Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University).

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    Coming Home from Prison: Family Matters
    (Institute for Excellence in Justice, 2008-06-06) Hairston, Creasie Finney
    Based primarily on research conducted with men returning home from prison and their wives and girlfriends, Dr. Creasie Finney Hairston (UIC) provides an overview of how families experience and manage community reentry. The presentation describes the impact of incarceration and community reentry on family relationships. Families as sources of support, conflict and domestic violence, parent-child relationships, and parole practices and expectations are among the topics covered. Comments are provided by Stephen Gavazzi (OSU); Kim Hettel (GOFBCI); and Rachael Woldoff (WVU).
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    Family Involvement During Incarceration and Reentry
    (Institute for Excellence in Justice, 2008-06) Pettway, Coretta
    This Best Practices Tool-Kit aims to systematically identify empirical evidence regarding strategies, programs and practices geared towards involving offenders’ families during incarceration and reentry. It highlights practices and program strategies that are proven, promising or exemplary best practices and provides references for more extensive reading. The objective of this tool kit is to provide information that will better inform policymakers, practitioners and researchers on maintaining and strengthening appropriate family relationships during incarceration and community reintegration.
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    Incarcerated Parents and Parenting Programs
    (Institute for Excellence in Justice, 2007-09) Harris, Millie; Pettway, Coretta
    This Best Practices Tool-Kit aims to systematically identify empirical evidence regarding prison programs and practices for incarcerated parents and their children. It highlights several practices and program strategies that are proven, promising or exemplary best practices and provides references for more extensive reading, if desired. The objective of the tool kit is to offer a sound evidence base that will better inform policymakers, practitioners and researchers on prison programs and practices geared toward building the parental skills of incarcerated parents.