Educators Resource Toolkit
This toolkit is meant to guide educators and school staff as they seek to see and support children of incarcerated parents in the classroom
Children with incarcerated parents often don't disclose their parent’s incarceration out of fear of how peers, friends, and teachers may respond, and often feel alone in their experience. As part of October's See Us Support Us, youth with incarcerated parents were a part of an Arizona State University panel where they shared ways to best support them in this video.
5 Tips for Educators
Five ways educators can start supporting students with incarcerated parents
Youth Team: ASU panel
Youth with incarcerated parents share how to best support them
Police-free Schools
A toolkit by Girls for Gender Equity for NYC schools on sustaining police-free schools
Words Matter Guide
How to use humanizing language when speaking about people impacted by the justice system
NYCIP NYC Resources
Fact sheet of NYC resources for children with incarcerated parents and their families
Creating Affirming Spaces
Learn how to create safer spaces for children of incarcerated parents
POPS The Club
Curriculum lessons for supporting children of incarcerated parents through self-expression
Directory of Programs
Directory of national programs serving children and families of incarcerated people
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Youth.gov Resources
Find resources for school staff to support youth with incarcerated parents
Families Outside
Guidance and resources for schools supporting children impacted by incarceration
Youth.gov Poster
2019 SUSU art contest winner, Maison, draws his relationship with his incarcerated dad
Do's and Dont's
Hear from the SUSU youth team about how to best support children with incarcerated parents
Tip Sheet for Teachers
Pre-k through grade 12: supporting children who have an incarcerated parent