CCIP
Client Publications
The
Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents offers a
variety of original publications for clients. These
items are available through the CCIP Clearinghouse
and include:
·
Information for Families, a CCIP brochure
·
The
Booklist for Children of Prisoners
·
The
CCIP Family Contracts Package
·
What About the Kids? An Information Sheet for
Arrested Parents
·
Selecting a Temporary Caregiver for Your Child
·
When Incarcerated Parents Lose Contract with Their
Children
These items are available free to clients by mail.
For more information, you may write or email the
Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The Clearinghouse Project
The
CCIP Clearinghouse maintains a collection of over
3500 documentary and audiovisual items relating to
families in the criminal justice system.
The
Clearinghouse offers two catalogs: one for
incarcerated parents and their families, who may
receive ordered items free of charge, and one for
all other users who are charged the cost of shipping
and handling. The Clearinghouse catalogs list items
written and published by CCIP, as well as items from
the popular, scholarly and program literatures.
Items for which CCIP holds distribution
rights---including original CCIP, Prison MATCH and
Phase ReEntry Program documents and tapes---may be
ordered in any quantity at their original price but
may not be duplicated without written permission
from CCIP. The Clearinghouse distributes only single
reproductions of all other items.
Although new items are regularly added to the
catalog, the Clearinghouse collection includes
literally thousands of items which have not been
cataloged. Users may access uncataloged items by
requesting a search; searches for single topic and
multiple topic requests are conducted by staff for a
fee. Information about searches of the
Clearinghouse collection can be obtained by writing
or emailing us.
All
catalog and search proceeds go toward maintenance of
the Clearinghouse and the subsidy of free materials
for prisoners and their families. The Clearinghouse
is supported solely through income earned by these
sales.
Download the CCIP Clearinghouse Catalog
CCIP Clearinghouse Catalog - (144k/PDF).
Items from the Clearinghouse collection are also
available prepaid by mail. For more information, you
may write or email the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
CCIP Research
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents has conducted 11
major research projects since it opened in 1989.
These include the following completed studies:
Jailed
Mothers Project (1990-91)
A team of 4 formerly incarcerated mothers
interviewed all 114 mothers jailed at the Robert
Presley Detention Center in Riverside County,
California. Fourteen of the mothers refused to
participate in the study. The 100 mothers studied
had a total of 228 children between the ages of
birth and 32 years. Demographics, criminal justice
history, family history, personal history,
intergenerational trauma and incarceration
histories, and re-entry problems were examined.
Published in Children of Incarcerated Parents
(1995).
The Children of Offenders Study (1992)
A total of 58 children of criminal offenders who
were receiving school-based therapeutic services
were studied. Investigators examined child
demographics, developmental history, health history,
academic history, family configurations, family
criminal justice history, school behavior and
performance, and involvement in maladaptive
behaviors. Excerpts published in Children of
Incarcerated Parents (1995).
Parent-Child Prison Visitation (1993)
In cooperation with a California Department of
Corrections visitor hospitality agency, adults
supervising a total of 240 children who were
visiting adults at 6 California prisons were
surveyed. The study examined the children's prior
relationship to the parent they were visiting and
child behavioral reactions to the visits. Published
in Children of Incarcerated Parents (1995).
The Therapeutic Intervention Project (1993)
The Children of Offenders Study (1992, above) was
extended into a longitudinal format in 1993. A total
of 212 children were included in this portion of the
study.
Child Custody Advocacy Services for Incarcerated Parents (1994)
Demographics and needs of 660 incarcerated parents,
and services provided by the Center's Child Custody
Advocacy Services [CHICAS] Project from January 1,
1990 through December 31, 1994 were reported in this
study. This study was published in The Prison
Journal (April, 1995).
Jail Visiting Environments (1995)
Fifty eight of 85 (68.2%) jail facilities in the
state of California were examined by survey,
including 87.5% of "mega" facilities, 40% of large
and medium facilities and 33% of small facilities.
Respondents were asked to report on types of
visitation offered and to describe barrier visiting
area environments, including types of barriers,
communication devices, visitor counters and seating,
other furnishings, decoration and modifications of
waiting and/or visiting areas for use by children.
Visual surveys were also conducted at 14 (24.1%) of
the responding facilities. This study was published
in Children's Environments (March, 1995).
Children of Criminal Offenders I (1996)
This report represented an update on a longitudinal
study of 626 children of currently and formerly
incarcerated parents.
The following research was recently completed or is still in
progress:
Children of Criminal Offenders & Foster Care, I (1999-2000)
A total of 68 children in long-term foster care with
a private child welfare agency were studied.
Investigators interviewed children and their foster
caregivers, examining child demographics, family
configurations, development, school performance,
maladaptive behaviors, traumatic experiences, family
involvement in the criminal justice system and the
foster care experience. Children of criminal
offenders were compared to other children in
long-term foster care.
Children of Criminal Offenders II (2000)
A total of 210 randomly-selected public school
children and their parents/caregivers were
interviewed in this study. Investigators examined
child demographics, family configurations, child
developmental history, school performance,
maladaptive behaviors, traumatic experiences, family
involvement in the criminal justice system and the
foster care experience. Children of criminal
offenders were compared to other children. This
study will be published in 2001.
National Survey of Residential, Mother-Child Correctional
Programs (2000-01)
Thirteen of the 16 U.S. prison nurseries and
community mother-child facilities which house women
prisoners and their infants or young children in the
were surveyed in the first national study of these
programs. This study will be published in 2001.
Children of Criminal Offenders & Foster Care II (2001-02)
This study replicates the Children of Criminal
Offenders & Foster Care I Study but is being
conducted in a public child welfare system among
children in all classes of foster care. Two
chronologic cohorts of 210 children each will be
examined.
Download the CCIP Clearinghouse Catalog
CCIP Clearinghouse
Catalog
- (144k/PDF).
The Center's Research Monographs are also available prepaid by
mail through the CCIP Clearinghouse. For more
information, write or email the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
CCIP
Educational Projects
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents has offered 16
different educational projects since 1991. Projects
have served incarcerated parents and parents under
community correctional supervision; the caregivers
of prisoners' children; parents in recovery from
substance dependency; criminal justice system and
correctional professionals; and other professionals
who work with criminal offenders and their families.
All Center educational projects for criminal offenders are
developed from the Prison Parents' Education Project
[PPEP] core curriculum. PPEP was developed in 1990
for incarcerated mothers in correctional facilities
where there were no parenting classes. The Center
makes PPEP available as a course taught by Center
instructors; as a correspondence course, offered
free to up to 40 parents per year or for a fee; as
an instructional package that includes a training of
correctional/treatment staff trainers and a PPEP
master manual; and as an instructional package that
includes training of prisoners to teach other
prisoners.
Other Center curricula include:
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The Reclaiming
Parenthood Project [REPP], a sequential
curriculum designed for use with
substance-dependent parents in recovery.
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The Ex-Offender
Parents' Education Project [ExOPEP], a
sequential curriculum similar to PPEP, designed
for use with parolees.
-
The MotherRight
Family Life Education [FLE] course, a sequential
curriculum designed for use with women offenders
in structured residential settings.
-
The Young
Father's Project [YFP], a sequential curriculum
designed for use with juvenile offenders in
structured residential settings.
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The Women's
Education & Empowerment Series, a non-sequential
series of workshops on topics of interest to
women offenders.
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The TIP
Caregiver Training Project, a sequential
curriculum for caregivers of prisoners'
children.
The
Center has offered educational projects to over 4000
clients in jail, prison, community corrections,
probation, parole, drug treatment, public school and
other community settings since 1991. Like all CCIP
client services, educational projects are offered
free of charge.
For more information about Center educational projects, write or
mail the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The
Attachments Project
The
Attachments Project of the Center for Children of
Incarcerated Parents is focused on building the
capacity for attachment---trusting, affectionate
relationships with others---in children who have
experienced multiple disruptions in their care. The
project offers child developmental assessments,
childcare services planning and attachment-building
activities for infants and children. These services
are designed to address issues of mother-child
separation and child attachment disorders, and to
improve child functioning and the mother-child
relationship.
The
capacity for attachment is developed within healthy
caregiver-child dyads; when one member of a dyad is
impaired, attachment will not proceed normally.
Traumatized persons often have a limited capacity
for attachment; for example, trauma-related symptoms
like emotional numbing may prevent a mother's full
engagement in the intense, reciprocal emotional
interaction necessary to produce the attachment
bond. A maternal history of unresolved trauma has
been recognized as a major determinant of abnormal
mother-child attachment and the development of
insecure patterns of attachment in children.
Therefore, Attachments also offers
psycho-educational and therapeutic services for
mothers, and attachment-building activities and
resources for mother-child dyads.
Attachments is funded by private foundations and
offered in four mother-child correctional settings
in Southern California. Since 1996, the project has
served over 600 mother-child dyads. As in all Center
projects, Attachments services are provided to
clients free of charge.
For
more information about the Attachments Project, you
may write or email the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The Therapeutic Intervention Project
The
Therapeutic Intervention Project [TIP] is a service
of the Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents.
TIP was piloted in 1991 and originally served
middle-school children. Since 1992, TIP has provided
services to children in elementary schools and
daycare settings. TIP offers comprehensive services
for children of criminal offenders and their
families.
Children's Services. TIP children's services include individual and/or group
counseling. One objective of these services is to
reduce those childhood behaviors known to be
associated with later delinquency or adult
criminality. TIP also provides children with
behavioral skills training to increase children's
capacity to recover from past traumatic experiences
and to respond resiliently to new stressors.
Participating children attend a 20 day summer skills
training "camp". TIP is a relationship-based
intervention that provides children with a primary
therapist as well as a therapeutic mentor with whom
they meet twice a week. Social/recreational
activities are designed to improve children's social
and relationship skills, as well as for simple
enjoyment.
Parent/Caregiver Services. One parent or caregiver of each child is required to take
part in a minimum of 8 hours of TIP services during
the school year as a condition of child
participation in the project. Parents/caregivers are
offered a special parent education curriculum and
parent or caregiver support groups. TIP also
conducts monthly advocacy meetings that assist
parents/caregivers to advocate for their children
and themselves within the schools.
Teacher Services. Teachers at the schools where TIP services are based are
offered a series of on-going services, including a
teacher training course focused on child
development, attachment and childhood trauma.
Teachers may also take part in biweekly support
groups
TIP
children's groups are offered in a recreational
vehicle that has been customized for the delivery of
therapeutic services. TIP has been offered in public
school, residential drug treatment, day care and
community center settings. TIP served more than 600
children. Like all Center projects, TIP offers
services to clients free of charge.
For
more information about TIP, you may write or email
the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The
Developmental Enhancement & Education Project [DEEP]
DEEP
offers intensive, research-based mentoring for
children of prisoners 8-18 years of age. According
to the DEEP model, mentoring provides children with
a supplemental attachment figure with whom they can
improve and refine their relationship skills,
leading to improvement in their important
relationships with parents, teachers and peers. In
turn, these improvements lead to better school
attendance, better grades, less negative and risky
behaviors, and increased academic and social
achievements.
DEEP
kids meet with their mentors once a month for a
structured, CCIP-based activity and three times a
month for individual dyad activities. Mentors and
mentees commit to participating in the mentoring
activity for a minimum of one year.
For
more information about DEEP, you may write or email
the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The Child Custody Advocacy Services [CHICAS] Project
The
Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents offers
assistance with child custody matters for
incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents,
children and families of criminal offenders, and
substance-dependent parents in treatment and/or
recovery. These services have been offered since
1990 through the Child Custody Advocacy Services
[CHICAS] Project.
The
parental interests of prisoners, former prisoners
and substance-dependent persons are particularly at
risk in child custody matters, both in the child
welfare and family court systems. The Center
estimates that at least 1 in 3 children in the child
welfare system have parents who are under
correctional supervision. An unknown number of
prisoners have active child custody matters in the
family courts.
CHICAS provides clients with information about the
child welfare and family court systems; advocates
for clients within those systems and for community
services; assists clients with pro per legal efforts
in the area of child custody; provides clients with
documents to support prison visitation and
parent-child contact from prison; helps incarcerated
parents locate their children in the community; and
helps the children of prisoners find parents "lost"
in the criminal justice system. Like all Center
projects, CHICAS provides services at no cost to
clients.
Information about CHICAS and CHICAS applications are
available by mail from:
CHICAS Project
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The
MotherRight/FatherRight Project
The MotherRight/FatherRight Project of the Center for Children of
Incarcerated Parents is focused on building or
enhancing healthy relationships, healthy sexuality,
healthy reproduction and healthy parenting among
criminal offenders and their partners. The project
has been offered in 10 settings since 1991.
The first MotherRight Project offered mentoring by experienced
mothers in the community for pregnant, jailed women
in Los Angeles County Jails. The project was
replicated in Framingham, Massachusetts the
following year. This first prototype of MotherRight
was discontinued in 1993.
In 1998, the Center redesigned MotherRight to include additional
components. The project currently provides
combinations of the following services for mothers:
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A
psycho-educational parent education course
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A
psycho-education family life education course
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A trauma
recovery & empowerment support group
-
Therapeutic
services
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Meditation, yoga
& other stress reduction training
-
Mentoring for
young mothers
MotherRight services are currently offered at 4
correctional sites housing women offenders and their
children in Southern California. Since 1999, the
project has served over 300 women. MotherRight is
funded through a combination of public contracts and
private grants. As in all Center projects,
MotherRight services are offered to clients free of
charge.
The FatherRight Project is a replication of the MotherRight
Project, which was designed in 1991 and subsequently
offered in four sites throughout Southern
California. FatherRight offered combinations of
the following services for fathers in residential
and community corrections settings:
In 2006, these two projects were combined.
MotherRight/FatherRight currently provides services
to incarcerated mothers and their male partners, and
to incarcerated fathers and their female partners,
in state correctional facilities. In addition,
MotherRight/FatherRight offers conflict mediation
training and relationships groups for couples during
incarceration and in the community.
For more information about the MotherRight/FatherRight Project,
you may write or email the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The
MIRACLE Project
The
MIRACLE Project of the Center for Children of
Incarcerated Parents offers child and family
development, and family support services for
pregnant women in Los Angeles County Jail and the
California Department of Corrections &
Rehabilitation. Services are provided during
maternal incarceration and for these women and their
families after the mother’s release. The MIRACLE
Project has been conducted in partnership with the
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department [LASD] since
2001.
MIIRACLE is focused on building the capacity for
attachment---trusting, affectionate relationships
with others---in participating mothers, and insuring
that infants born in jail do not experience the
multiple disruptions in care that are typical of the
first year of life among infants of jailed women.
The project offers a comprehensive array of services
including:
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Prenatal, childbirth, postpartum and breastfeeding education
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Parent education and skills training
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Child development education
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Family life education
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Drug education
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Self-help activities (AA, ACA, CA, CODA, NA)
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Individualized therapeutic services
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Mothers' support groups
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Trauma recovery and empowerment groups
As in
all Center Projects, MIRACLE services are provided
to clients free of charge.
For
more information about the MIRACLE Project, you may
write or email the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The Mother-Child Reunification Program at CIW
In
2006, the Center implemented a four-part
Mother-Child Reunification Program at CIW. This
program includes the following CCIP projects, which
are described elsewhere in this section:
·
The
Bonding Mothers & Babies Project
·
The
MIRACLE Project
·
The
ChildSpace Project
·
The
Mediated Visitation Project
This comprehensive program of services is designed
to 1) produce healthy outcomes of pregnancy among
women prisoners; 2) support the mother-child
relationship for women prisoners who give birth
while incarcerated; and 3) support mother-child
reunification for imprisoned mothers and their
children.
As
with all Center Projects, Mother-Child Reunification
Program services are provided to clients free of
charge.
For more information about this program, you may write or email
the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
CCIP
Fellowship Program
The
Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents offers a
bi-annual fellowship program for incarcerated
parents. Fellowships support advanced education,
research and advocacy work on issues related to
parental incarceration.
Two
CCIP Fellows are selected during each application
period; fellowships are awarded for from 12 to 24
months and include a stipend of up to $1500 in
educational materials. CCIP Fellows are required to
produce independently or collaborate with CCIP staff
on one editorial, educational or advocacy project
during each 12 months of their fellowship.
Eligibility criteria:
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Incarceration. Applicants must be incarcerated parents.
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Literacy. The CCIP fellowship is awarded for advanced study;
applicants must be able to read at a 7th-8th
grade level.
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Advocacy experience. Applicants must provide evidence
of previous involvement in education, activism
or advocacy on issues related to parental
incarceration.
Download the CCIP Fellowship Program Application
CCIP Fellowship Program Application - (64k/PDF).
Applications are also available by mail and can be
obtained by writing to the Center at:
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
P.O. Box 41-286
Eagle Rock, California 90041
Email:
ccip@earthlink.net
The
application deadline is November 1 for fellowships
beginning January 1 of the following year.
