The most powerful kind of support is understanding.
Below are recommended resources to better understand the challenges facing CIPs, the benefits of sports on youth self-esteem, and participation gaps in youth sports.
Organizations
Project Avary
Community Works Project What!
Walls to Bridges
Place4Grace
BAYCIPP
BMC Violence Intervention Advocacy Program
Northeastern Center for the Study of Sport in Society
Friends of the Children Boston
Friends of the Children Bay Area
Seedling
Literature
Children, Parents and Incarceration
by Alameda County Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
Children on the Outside
Voicing the Pain and Human Costs of Parental Incarceration by Justice Strategies
A Shared Sentence
by The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Children of Incarcerated Parents Bill of Rights
by the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
Every Second Family
The Impact of the Incarceration Crisis on America’s Families by FWD.us
Mass incarceration and children’s outcomes
by Economic Policy Institute
Books
What Will Happen to Me?
By Howard Zehr and Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz
When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children
edited by Christopher Wideman, Anna R. Haskins, and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated