3rd October 2003 EUROCHIPS, in tandem with KIDS VIP in the U.K., organized a study day/seminar for prison directors and personnel from various European countries entitled “Maintaining family ties: Identifying training needs and methods,” on 2 October 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland The aim was to foster an exchange of ideas on maintaining family ties for … Read more
15th September 2003 A documentary film about a child in the Netherlands whose father is imprisoned in Venezuela , “En Terecht! Mijn vader woont in Venezuela” (And Rightly So! My father lives in Venezuela ), premiered in the Netherlands on September 13 and was aired on Dutch television on October 26. Directed by Rene Roelofs … Read more
13th August 2003 The Family and Corrections Network in the United States now has a new on-line information source for people serving children of prisoners and their caregivers: the Children of Prisoners Library, written by Ann Adalist-Estrin, is available atwww.fcnetwork.org. Information sheets can be downloaded, duplicated and distributed free of charge.
15th July 2003 Eurochips is organizing a consensus meeting on mothers living with their infants/children in prison, to be held in Brussels on January 16-17 for the purposes of drafting part of a Eurochips document on the issue of children and imprisoned parents. The report, Prisoners’ Children and Family Ties: a Handbook of Practice and … Read more
15th June 2003 The Ontario-based Center for Children & Families in the Justice System of the London Family Court Clinic has just published an exploratory study on the impact of maternal incarceration on children. Relying on a sample of 45 women and 90 children and adolescents in Ontario, “Waiting for Mommy: Giving a Voice to … Read more
15th April 2003 Under the “Big Book Share,” a new project launched recently at Magilligan Prison in County Londonderry, imprisoned fathers and their children can select a book together during a prison visit, which the father then records onto an audio tape. When the child returns to visit, he or she is presented with a … Read more
15th March 2003 KIDS VIP, a UK-based charity working to bolster the relationship between children and imprisoned parents, has officially joined the EUROCHIPS network. Founded in 1993, KIDS VIP currently operates with a staff of three, working with prisons to set up supervised play areas in prisons, promote good practice in the play areas, and … Read more
16th February 2003 Action for Prisoners’ Families is continuing its free hotline for prisoners’ families, funded by the Community Fund in the United Kingdom . The service provides information and support to relatives and friends of anyone incarcerated in England and Wales on such issues as visiting rights, how the prison system operates and how … Read more
15th February 2003 A new initiative to maintain child-parent ties for imprisoned mothers and father in Luxembourg is now under way in that country. Launched in 1996 to provide community-based structures to facilitate child-parent relationships, Service Treff-Punkt has extended its work into the Centre Pénitentiaire Luxembourg on behalf of children separated from imprisoned parents. They … Read more
17th November 2002 Eurochips member Bambini Senza Sbarre has published “Il tempo et lo spazio della relazione figli-genitori in carcere” (Dimensions of the Child-Parent Relationship in Detention), a book inspired by a national conference organized inside San Vittore Prison in Milan in collaboration with EUROCHIPS (2001). For information on how to obtain a copy : … Read more
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