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| CCSU initiative helps kids with parents behind bars |
| By centralctcommunications.com- Lisa Backus |
| Published: 04/27/2015 |
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NEW BRITAIN — Children of parents who are incarcerated face challenges that other kids can’t even imagine. There can be a loss of income, a loss of the person who loved and cared for them, a loss of dignity and a quiet shame that is often hidden from classmates, teachers and friends, said Aileen Keays, a research specialist with Central Connecticut State University’s Institute for Municipal & Regional Policy. But the Children with Incarcerated Parents Initiative, which Keays manages, offers programs that help kids deal with the stigma of having a parent incarcerated and maintain family relationships despite long odds. "We’re trying to promote sound criminal justice policy regarding the parents because that effects the kids," Keays said of the initiative. According to national figures supplied by CIP, one in 346 children has a parent deployed in the U.S. military, one in 191 children is in foster care and one in 28 children has an incarcerated parent. State Department of Corrections statistics in recent years have placed New Britain among the top five cities in the state for the percentage of residents who are incarcerated. Read More. |
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