Project
AVARY is pleased to work with many wonderful partner organizations.
AcroSports
Offers
classes year-round for students age 18-months through adult in
gymnastics, tumbling, circus arts, dance, and more.
Blue
Water Foundation
Gives inner city and at-risk children the
opportunity to experience sailing.
Centerforce
Provides
services for prisoners, ex-prisoners, and family members of
prisoners.
Environmental
Traveling Companions
Opens the beauty and challenge of outdoor
adventures to people with special needs.
Family
Support Services of the East Bay
Provides support to parents
and other caregivers of vulnerable children.
Pacific
Leadership Institute
Promoting learn-by-doing experiences
using challenge, the outdoors, and play as teaching tools for
self-esteem, team-work, leadership, and life skills.
San
Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
A
coalition of social service providers, representatives of government
bodies, advocates and others who work with or are concerned about
children of incarcerated parents and their families.
Slide
Ranch
A non-profit teaching farm located at a historic coastal
dairy perched above the ocean in the Marin Headlands.
Local Agencies
Serving the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
The
Chowchilla Family Express
Provides free transportation for the
families and loved ones of the women incarcerated at the two prisons
in Chowchilla, California to come visit.
Get
on the Bus
Brings children and their caregivers from
throughout California to visit their mothers and fathers in prison.
National Agencies
Serving the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
Center
for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Founded in 1989 by Denise
Johnston and Katherine Gabel, our mission is the prevention of
intergenerational crime and incarceration. Our goals are the
production of high quality documentation on and the development of
model services for children of criminal offenders and their
families.
Family
& Corrections Network
Since 1983, has provided ways for
those concerned with families of prisoners to share information and
experiences in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
Yellow
Brick Roads
A non-profit organization, specifically designed
to cater to the needs of children of incarcerated parents.
General Research
& Information sources
Children of
incarcerated Parents, C.W. Simmons, California Research Bureau, March
2000
Children of
Incarcerated parents, K. Gabel & D. Johnston (Eds.) New York:
Lexington Books, 1995
"Mental Health:
A Report of the surgeon General" U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, 1999
Children of
Incarcerated Parents, January 2006, Council on Crime and Justice
All Alone in
the World, Nell Bernstein, 2005
