In Romania, children with an imprisoned parent are at a greater risk for dropping out of school. Since 2015, COPE applicant member the SVASTA Foundation has worked on a project entitled “Alone to school”. The main objective of the project is to support children and young people with an imprisoned parent to complete their studies. … Read more
The Maltese foundation Mid-Dlam għad-Dawl has launched two programmes that focus on providing support to both prisoners and their families. The first is a residential programme where imprisoned parents will be put into groups of 4-6 to discuss their experiences and parenting. An extensive part of the rehabilitation process will be focusing on therapy for … Read more
In Finland, a new prison for women opened in November 2020 that features the installation of a smart system, with the aim of promoting a new approach to imprisonment that fosters rehabilitation, education and reintegration through access to digital services. Each prisoner will have access to a personal cell terminal (laptop) that can be used … Read more
Poland’s Probacja Foundation has organised an annual Christmas theatre event in both of Krakow’s prisons, Nowa Huta Prison for women and Montelupich Prison for men. In both prisons, imprisoned parents worked with volunteers to prepare a play for their children, offering a space for parents to be creative and devise theatre of which they are … Read more
Partners of Prisoners (POPS) has held their Hidden Sentence training seminars to inform professional staff and academic students in England’s North West about the issues impacting families affected by imprisonment, with focus placed on both logistical difficulties and the emotional impacts of imprisonment on families. Participants have included local criminal justice authorities, children’s services and … Read more
The Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT) developed the Visiting Mum program in HMP Eastwood Park, a women’s prison in Gloucestershire, southwestern England, in response to the fact that a number of imprisoned mothers were not receiving visits from their children, which was resulting in high levels of depression, anxiety and self-harming. The location of … Read more
The Families Outsides Support & Information Helpline provides over-the-phone support and information to children and families of prisoners in Scotland, often operating as the ‘first port of call’ for people searching for support resources. The Helpline is also available to professionals working in the field. The line is open on weekdays during business hours and … Read more
In cooperation with the University of Utrecht, Exodus offers parenting training programmes for fathers imprisoned in 18 prisons throughout the Netherlands, benefitting some 120 fathers and their children through eight sessions held once a week. The goal of these sessions is to contribute to the recovery and development of the relationship between parent and child … Read more
In 2018, Exodus launched the KIND expertise centre in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, to provide support and information for children with a parent in prison and their family and social circle. Their goal is to restore the relationship between child and imprisoned parent and to strengthen the community around them, including teachers, social workers and … Read more
Through collaboration with the prison administration in Limerick, Ireland, Bedford Row Family Project has helped to introduce a Parenting Under Pressure programme for mothers imprisoned at Limerick Prison. Originally developed in Australia and implemented internationally, Parenting Under Pressure is devised to help ‘multi-problem high-risk families’ with children between two and eight years of age towards … Read more
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