Poster Session: Children of Incarcerated Parents: Generational Incarceration Prevention
(Room Hall A Poster 10)
05 Nov 25
11:45 AM
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2:00 PM
Tracks:
Advancing Equity for Students with Disabilities
Children who experience parental incarceration suffer five times the number of adverse childhood experiences as their peers who do not share that same life experience. Often, the incarcerated parent maintains their parental rights and is entitled to engage in ARD and 504 meetings. Research indicates that maintaining the parent-child relationship during incarceration is in the best interest of the child. The children of incarcerated parents tend to have more externalizing behaviors, lower school engagement, and less readiness for school. They have higher numbers of office referrals and higher dropout rates. They develop negative self-fulfilling prophecies and often have negative life outcomes. Children who experience parental incarceration suffer from stigmatization. This can be mitigated, however, by some simple steps by schools to help disrupt the cycle of generational incarceration.