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Navigating Practice Challenges: Parents

Navigating Practice Challenges: Parents. Determining the location of a parent in prison or jail. Prison: DOC parent locator Jail: websites JBARS system: some agencies have access. Providing services while in prison.

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Navigating Practice Challenges: Parents

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  1. Navigating Practice Challenges: Parents

  2. Determining the location of a parent in prison or jail • Prison: DOC parent locator • Jail: websites • JBARS system: some agencies have access

  3. Providing services while in prison • Contact the CPPCs (Community Partnership Program Coordinators), to determine the availability of services and participation in services • Connect with the parent’s correctional counselor • Connect with the visitation coordinator • Access info available on web regarding facility and procedures • Enable connections with adult mentoring and reentry programs

  4. Obligations towards parents in prison: services • Obligations of the state • Peter Kay, AAG • Working with parents effectively • Patrick Dowd, OPD

  5. Services upon reentry • Contact family support staff if in community supervision • Work with DOC and community agencies to determine reentry resources in their area • Research has shown that continued contact between parents and children during parental incarceration improves parent’s outcomes after reentering the community (Vigne 2008).

  6. Housing Resources • Housing for ex-offenders and their families • Toni Johnson, PPA

  7. -Toni Johnson, PPA Under current law, a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule governs eligibility of criminals seeking federally-assisted public housing. Specifically, public housing authorities may not admit families with members: Who were evicted from federally assisted housing for drug-related criminal activity for three years following the date of eviction; Who are currently engaging in illegal drug use; Who have shown a pattern of illegal drug or alcohol use that may interfere with the health or safety of other public housing residents; Who are subject to a lifetime registration requirement under a state sex offender program; or Who have ever been convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine on public housing property. Housing Resources

  8. Housing Resources • Local Housing Authorities: • Each local housing authority has their own set of eligibility requirements on top of the HUD. • Thirty-nine (39) in Washington State • 48,000 Section 8/Housing Choice Vouchers • 16,000 Public Housing Units • Barriers • Criminal History • Poor Rental History • Low Income • NIMBY • Closed waiting list

  9. Housing Resources • Hope: • King County Housing Authority - The waiting periods for crimes like burglary and homicide, which currently carries a 20-year lapse between release from jail and eligibility, would move to a 12-month system under the proposal. • Seattle Housing Authority is working on moving to the same 12 month standard.

  10. Child Support Obligations • Working with parents to help manage child support debt • Aura MacArthur, ESA

  11. ASFA requirements Provide reasonable efforts to reunify after a child has been placed in out-of-home care. Reasonable efforts must take into account: - scheduling visits - offering services - Documenting provision and progress with services. - Reassessing families at least every 6 months. TPR- child has been out of the home 12 of the last 19 months - Incarceration alone can not be a “compelling reason” not to file a TPR” but if the parent is participating and making progress with services and a release is imminent the court may decide the circumstances constitute a compelling reason (region X ACF clarification).

  12. ICWA requirements • Active efforts with incarcerated parents and their families • Miriam Bearse, PPA

  13. Communication and information sharing • Information on signed court orders: public information, can be shared • Information based on those court orders regarding case coordination • Chemical Dependency and Mental Health: signed release of information

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