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 booklet published by Croatian organisation RODA, for prison staff, illustrates how to recognise the needs of children visiting their parent(s) in prison. The manual was distributed to all correctional facilities in Croatia. It is available here.
Bambinisenzasbarre is organising training sessions nationwide for prison officers and social workers with the aim of providing child-friendly guidelines in prison and promoting the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was signed between Bambinisenzasbarre, the Italian Ombudsperson, and the Italian Ministry of Justice. The initiative is also an opportunity to build a network of advocates that … Read more
Bedford Row’s Life Skills program focuses mainly on peer support and mentoring although the programme is facilitated by a psychotherapist and a person trained in counseling, facilitation, addiction studies, and community health and development. There are 2 programmes, the basic Life Skills programme which lasts for 10 weeks and the advanced, which lasts 17 weeks. … Read more
After having successful sessions in 2013 of their Continuing Professional Development opportunities, Families Outside offered opportunities to teachers in Scotland in starting in 2014. Their aim is to train teachers on how to help all school staff in identifying and supporting children with an incarcerated parent. The organization hold’s their training sessions inside the prison … Read more
The programme TAKT was launched in the Nuremberg area. It’s main focus is on sensitivity training for prison staff (prison officers and social workers), school environments (teachers and social workers), and teaching modules about children of prisoners for classroom discussion. The programme comes out of a group of interviews from a COPING study in which … Read more
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