Family

  • Aid to Inmate Mothers - AIM provides services to Alabama's incarcerated women with emphasis on enhancing personal growth and strengthening the bonds between inmate mothers and their children.  

  • Assisting Families of Inmates, Inc. - The mission of Assisting Families of Inmates, Inc. (formerly Prison Family Support Services) is to help families preserve and strengthen positive relationships with relatives incarcerated in Virginia's state correctional centers. Through a continuum of direct informational and support services, AFOI helps families cope with the incarceration and prepare for release and reunification.

  • Canadian Families and Corrections Network - A Canadian not for profit organization that encourages the development of policies, practices and programs that enable prisoners and their families to build holistic family and community relations.

  • ConsCallHome - Secure Inmate Calls - ConsCallHome helps people save money on inmate phone calls. Since 2008, ConsCallHome has been helping the families and friends of inmates save money on inmate calling.

  • Edwin Gould Services for Children - The IMP is a specially designed preventive program that addresses the unique needs of mothers parenting their children from prison in New York. The main goal of the IMP is to prevent foster care placement by assisting women and their children during and after the time of arrest; court; jail; and as they return to the community. IMP provides advocacy, foster care prevention, counseling, and vocational training, and also prison-based parenting groups to serve fathers.

  • Forever Family, Inc. - Forever Family is an advocacy group for incarcerated parents which provides helpful information for all parents in prison who have children, but can only provide social services in the Atlanta area.

  • Forever Family (formerly AIM) - Foreverfamily works to ensure that, no matter what the circumstances, all children have the opportunity to be surrounded by the love of family. We focus our efforts on some of the most marginalized children in our society - those with an incarcerated parent or parents - and support them as they, their parents, caregivers and extended families work to remain a family.

  • Friends and Family of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children - FFLIC is a statewide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for all of Louisiana's youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system.

  • Hope House - Hope House offers programs to prisoners and their families aimed at decreasing recidivism and keeping incarcerated men connected to the community. Our goal is to create programs that strengthen ties between District inmates who are incarcerated in prisons outside the D.C. area and their families in Washington; To advocate for and raise the level of awareness of the general public about inmates and their concerns; and To create programs for the children and families of D.C. prisoners.

  • The Incarcerated Mothers Program Edwin Gould Services for Children - Provides advocacy, foster care prevention, counseling, and vocational training. Also runs "Achievers' Girls and Boys Shine" program for children ages 9-19 whose parents have been or are incarcerated, Saturday activity groups, and "Grandparents as Parents" support group.

  • Jewish Prisoner Services International - Chaplaincy and social services organization for Jewish prisoners, their family members and new releases only. Will provide Jewish religious materials, including Hebrew texts.

  • Legal Services for Prisoners With Children - LSPC advocates for the human rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration. We respond to requests for information, trainings, technical assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more advocates. Our focus is on women prisoners and their families, and we emphasize that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration.

  • Middle Ground Prison Reform - Working for Arizona's prisoners and their families since 1983. Main areas of activity are: 1) public education about the need for criminal justice reform 2) legislative advocacy on behalf of prisoners and their visitors 3) litigation to protect and define the rights and responsibilities of prisoners and their supporters 4) referral to community resources for ex-offenders. Spanish-speaking volunteers available.

  • Prison Calls Online / OCS Prison Calls - Helps families pay less for their collect prison calls.

  • PrisonPro - Inmate Resources for Family and Friends. Find facilities, visiting applications, visiting hours, and inmates. Learn how to send mail and money to inmates.

  • Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS) - Provides institutional visits to prisoners only in federal and military prisons nationwide. Limited services for Spanish-speaking prisoners.

  • Project AVARY - Project AVARY offers long-term support and enrichment for children and youth in the San Francisco Bay Area with a parent in prison or jail. Our program services include a summer camp, monthly outings, leadership training, and family support. Write for further details.

  • Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos - The Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Prison Project is dedicated to providing cultural and spiritual education, support, and hope to incarcerated individuals. The Project advocates for prison policy reform and programs that reduce recidivism, support re-entry, and reunify families.

  • Southern Center for Human Rights - The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty in Georgia and Alabama only, and also publishes a Parolee Handbook, which serves as a guide the parole consideration process for people in Georgia's prisons. SCHR also publishes The Georgia Advocacy Handbook, a 46 page manual which helps explain the hierarchy in the GDC and how to maneuver within in it. Through this handbook families and friends of people incarcerated in Georgia will learn how to become advocates and implement appropriate and effective steps to resolve problems inside Georgia prisons.  

  • Texas Inmate Families Association - TIFA supports, educates, and advocates for families of the incarcerated. Of major concern to TIFA is the impact of parental incarceration on their very young children.

  • Wings Ministry - The goal of the Wings Ministry is to connect spouses, caregivers, and children of inmates with the nurturing and supporting relationships of Christian people in local churches.

  • Women's Prison Association (New York) - WPA offers a range of services aimed at helping women in the New York City area. Their direct service network is organized in three broad areas; Residential and Family Services; Reentry Services; and neighborhood-based services. Within these program areas, WPA offers Alternatives to Incarceration, Family Reunification Assistance and Family Support Services, Reentry Case Management, Assistance and Support, and Jail- and Prison-Based Education and Pre-Release Services.  

  • Women's Prison Association and Hooper Home - Provides foster care prevention, counseling, and housing placement assistance. 

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