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This book highlights the myriad factors that can impact the
children of incarcerated parents. It is no secret that the United
States continues to be the leading nation for the incarceration of
men and women, and this this large prison population includes
approximately 120,000 incarcerated mothers and 1.1 million
incarcerated fathers. Incarceration of a parent is recognized as an
'adverse childhood experience', an acute or chronic situation that
for most people is stressful and potentially traumatic. Children of
incarcerated parents may experience other adverse childhood
experiences such as poverty, homelessness, parental substance abuse
and other mental health problems, and family violence. The chapters
in this book document some of the challenges as well as some
promising ways that can help parents and families begin to meet
these challenges. It is our hope that the compendium of chapters
presented in this book will be a resource for practitioners, policy
makers, educators, researchers, and advocates in their work to
ensure that the children of incarcerated parents, their caregivers,
and their mothers and fathers, are provided the support they need
to address the challenges they face during and after parental
incarceration. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Smith College Studies in Social Work.
This book highlights the myriad factors that can impact the
children of incarcerated parents. It is no secret that the United
States continues to be the leading nation for the incarceration of
men and women, and this this large prison population includes
approximately 120,000 incarcerated mothers and 1.1 million
incarcerated fathers. Incarceration of a parent is recognized as an
'adverse childhood experience', an acute or chronic situation that
for most people is stressful and potentially traumatic. Children of
incarcerated parents may experience other adverse childhood
experiences such as poverty, homelessness, parental substance abuse
and other mental health problems, and family violence. The chapters
in this book document some of the challenges as well as some
promising ways that can help parents and families begin to meet
these challenges. It is our hope that the compendium of chapters
presented in this book will be a resource for practitioners, policy
makers, educators, researchers, and advocates in their work to
ensure that the children of incarcerated parents, their caregivers,
and their mothers and fathers, are provided the support they need
to address the challenges they face during and after parental
incarceration. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Smith College Studies in Social Work.
The number of children of color entering the child welfare system
in the United States is disproportionately high. This is especially
true among African-American children, who, though they comprise 15%
of children in the U.S., account for 37% of the total children
placed in foster care. The numbers are also high for Native
American and Latino children. Not only are children of color
removed from parental custody and placed in care more often than
their white counterparts, but they also remain in care longer,
receive fewer services, and have less contact with the caseworkers
assigned to them. This book identifies the practice and policy
changes required to successfully address the unequal treatment of
children of color in the child welfare system and their
implications for social work education, caseworker training, and
institutional change. The work critiques many of the existing
social welfare acts and policies in terms of their treatment of
children of color, and it provides best practices for each decision
point in the child welfare process and for cultural competency
measures and training.The text offers extensive measurement
instruments that agencies can use to assess and correct
institutional racism. To improve social work education, the book
includes several model syllabi for the social work curriculum, and
to deepen the discipline's engagement with this issue, the text
concludes with a discussion of future directions for research and
policy.
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