Osborne’s NYCIP Resource Toolkit
RESOURCES ON VISITING
This handbook was designed to help family members understand more about the New York State correctional system when visiting an incarcerated family member.
Share with incarcerated moms and dads to help them prepare for visits.
Visiting supports healing for most children, but prisons are often far away from home.
These handbooks focus on the experiences and needs of children with an incarcerated parent and provide essential information for caregivers.
A report and implementation toolkit on a model policy from the International Association of the Chiefs of Police, in conjunction with the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
NYC Children of Incarcerated Parents Resources Fact Sheet
Recommended Books For and About Children of Incarcerated Parents
These guiding tips will help you create a safer space where children and families feel comfortable expressing their emotions without feeling judged, blamed, or labeled.
Summary of the See Us, Support Us Youth Listening Session convened in NYC during SUSU 2019. We heard from 8 brave young people about their experiences and recommendations for addressing the unique needs of children whose parents are in the criminal justice system.
Developed by the San Francisco Partnership for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Parent-Child Visiting Practices in Prisons and Jails, Urban Institute
Best practices for supporting parent-child visiting in prisons and jails.
Video visits are available in some NYS prisons and Rikers Island jails. Video visits help children maintain connections with their parent in between in-person visits.
Options that help parents plan for their children’s care while incarcerated.
Identifying and Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents in Child Welfare
Recommendations for how to improve the lives and outcomes of New York’s children who have justice involved parents.
National Resource Center for Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers University
Join our #WordsMatter campaign to use humanizing language to refer to PEOPLE and PARENTS who are incarcerated or have come home, and replace "visitation" with "visits" or "visiting" (visitation is a term used by systems that separate families or in religious contexts). Learn more here.
Join us in using humanizing and child-friendly language when speaking about visiting an incarcerated loved one at a correctional facility. Families “visit.” Systems that separate families – criminal justice, child welfare, immigration – use the term “visitation.” Download the pdf here.
Artist Jacobia Dahm documents the great distances families travel to visit
Visit the Dr. Muhammad Experience to hear about the strength and resilience of children with incarcerated parents, and see clips from the 2020 Resilience, Successes, & Triumphs Digital Conference in partnership with Howard University
WATCH
Enhanced Visiting Program for children at Columbia County Jail in partnership with The Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood