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
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 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 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
The Families on Release (FOR) project, delivered by POPS, was commissioned by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to provide support to families of prisoners returning to the Greater Manchester area. This support package lasted up to 8 weeks and complimented the through-the-gate support provided to the prisoner by probation and youth justice services. POPS’ … Read more
NIACRO’s visitor centres aim to keep families and their loved ones in prison connected. They provide information to families and children, as well as guidelines for families. During the pandemic, the visitors centres had to adapt to the context. They did so by reaching out into the communities and linking the family and loved ones … Read more
Swedish organisation Solrosen has produced a play on the experience of having a parent in prison. Solrosen was contacted by a theatre group in Stockholm, whose leader grew up with a parent in prison. Together, they created a play on parental imprisonment. Several schools have agreed to have the play performed in their schools. After … Read more
This project was first launched in Poland in 2014. It is a rehabilitation programme that aims for the social readaptation of prisoner-parents. It focuses on family integration and a positive child-parent relationship. 50 prisoner-parents held in the prisons of the Małopolska region recorded a message or a story for their child(ren) on a CD. The … Read more
In order to allow the families that they work with to share their experiences, Children Heard and Seen has developed two innovative collections of poems and drawings from the families themselves. These collections include over 60 entries. They were compiled into two books that were sent to MPs, Prison Governors, and High Sheriffs across the … Read more
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