November 14th, 10am-12pm CST on Zoom
Ethics CEUs available: $20 for 2 credit hours
Presenter’s bio: Hilary Cuthrell, PhD, began working with incarcerated individuals and those involved in the legal justice system in 2009 while attending DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Cuthrell went on to earn her MS and PhD from the School of Human Ecology-Human Development and Family Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. Dr. Cuthrell acted as an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Child and Family Well-Being, where she served for 5 years under the United States Federal Government’s Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) program with the National Institute of Corrections in Washington, DC. Dr. Cuthrell currently serves as the project manager for “Child Friendly Visiting Spaces in Jails and Prisons,” a project federally funded in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance and National Institute of Corrections. Dr. Cuthrell’s work has been published in academic journals, peer-reviewed articles, correctional publication platforms and most recently a book entitled “When Are You Coming Home? How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail.”
Workshop Description: With an estimated 2.7 million US children experiencing parental incarceration, the need to provide children and families support during parental incarceration is imperative. Keeping children connected to their incarcerated parents has become a priority for many families entangled in the criminal legal system. Several innovative approaches aimed to keep children connected to their parents during a time of parental incarceration have emerged in recent years. This training will provide insight into many of these approaches from the perspective of families, correctional staff and community partners. The training will explore: incarcerated populations, research centered on young children of incarcerated parents, ethical considerations when working with minor children of incarcerated parents and emerging trends in family-centered approaches to correctional policies and procedures.