FCN Training-by-telephone

Children’s Bill of Rights #1: January 24, 2007

TOPIC: Right #1 - “I have the right to be kept safe and informed at the time of my parent’s arrest.”

FACILITATOR: Nell Bernstein, co –creator of the Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents and author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated.

GUESTS:

Captain Marsha Ashe, head of the Juvenile and Family Services Division of the San Francisco Police Department

Dr. James Lewis, National Center on Children Exposed to Violence

Yale Child Study Center

MODERATOR: Ann Adalist-Estrin, director of National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at FCN

This session addressed:

·      - The trauma a child can experience when a parent is arrested

·      - The role of police and child welfare departments

·      - Models of community collaboration in developing best practices aimed at mitigating trauma and ensuring child safety at the time of arrest.