Delaware Valley Adoption Council Presents:

  Children with Incarcerated Parents:

Issues and Interventions

Date: January 20th 9:30am- 12:00pm (note the early start time of 9:30am)

LOCATION: Montgomery County Office of Children and Youth 1430 DeKalb Street, Norristown PA.

        CEU’s WILL BE AVAILABE FOR THIS TRAINING

“Children with Incarcerated Parents:  Issues and Interventions”

In the United States, there are an estimated 2 million children with an incarcerated parent. Children suffer from multiple losses when their parent is incarcerated—the trauma of the arrest, change in caregiver, embarrassment, sadness, and powerlessness. This work­shop has been designed to highlight the impact of incarceration on the child, the parent, and the alternate caregiver. It will include a videotaped panel of teens and young adults replying to questions about strategies that helped to lessen the negative implications of the parental absence. This interactive workshop will examine in depth both individual and group interventions, as well as highlight the challenges and issues of family reintegration.

Brenda Hess Rich, MSW, LSW is the program director for the Kids n’ Kin program at the Philadelphia Society for Services to Children. Having worked in the field of child welfare for over 25 years, she has specifically focused on kinship issues for the past 14 years. Ms. Rich was selected to present at the 2006 national Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) conference on the topic of working with children of incarcerated parents. Other presentations have included CWLA’s national conference, CWLA’s Kinship Care Conference and their regional conferences.

DVAC sponsors multiple trainings per year.  If you are not a member of DVAC and would like more information on membership, please contact Jared Rolsky of Golden Cradle at jnr@goldencradle.org or visit the website for DVAC at delvaladopt.org