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Research

We are committed to being as informed and connected as possible to better address the challenges facing children of inmates and their families. Below are links to resources and research about this community. If you learn of any new, helpful information, we hope you will share it with us!

Other Agencies Serving Children and Families of the Incarcerated:

Angel Tree Ministries: A nation-wide program of Prison Fellowship, Angel Tree reaches out to the children of prisoners and their families with the love of Christ. This unique program gives you an opportunity to share God’s love by helping to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the families of prisoners. Angel Tree is Kidz2Leaders’ leading partner in referring children to our programs.

Forever Family: Supports families of the incarcerated by facilitating visitation between children and their incarcerated parent at certain prisons in Georgia, as well as offers various out-of-school educational activities.

HeartBound Ministries: Supports and equips the work of Georgia prison chaplains and provides programs and resources to meet the needs of the prison community, including correctional staff, inmates, and their families.

Big Brother Big Sister of Metro Atlanta: Provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported, one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. BBBS of Atlanta specifically offers one-on-one mentoring for children of inmates.

Research and Resources:

Having an incarcerated parent is listed as an Adverse Childhood Experience by the Center for Disease Control, putting these children at risk for a number of mental and physical health challenges later in life.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation examines the toll parental incarceration takes of children, families, and communities. They state, “Having a parent incarcerated is a stressful, traumatic experience of the same magnitude of abuse and domestic violence.”

This article from the Huffington Post analyzes the nation-wide cost of incarceration.

The American Camp Association provides research on the impact of camp on healthy child development.

Angel Tree Ministries provides insight on FAQs related to children of inmates.

The Georgia Department of Corrections provides these resources for families and friends of the incarcerated.

Youth.gov is the U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included on this website are youth facts, funding information, and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest, youth-related news. Follow this link to the topic of children of incarcerated parents.

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Have you heard about Mentors4Hope? It’s a ment Have you heard about Mentors4Hope? 

It’s a mentorship program offered through Kidz2Leaders Family Support!

It’s been proven that mentoring relationships are a key part of a healthy supportive community, and help kids build resilience and other life skills! 

Recently, two of our mentors had the opportunity to take their mentees to a Hawks game! Dan has been mentoring since 2004 and says, “I’ve always loved working with kids, even before I had kids of my own. Mentoring has really driven home for me that it brings more joy to give than to receive.”

If you are a K2L family and would like your child to be paired with a mentor, OR if you would like to learn more about becoming a mentor, reach out to Lana, our Student Support Manager, at Lana.Trull@kidz2leaders.org. 

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Happy New Year! For our first #throwbackthursday Happy New Year!

For our first #throwbackthursday of 2023, we're lingering with the joy of a wonderful Hope4Christmas event. We were so grateful to get to kick off the holiday season with all of you.

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What an amazing year it has been! As we look ahead What an amazing year it has been! As we look ahead to 2023, we are so excited to share that...

>>> We are preparing to double the number of new families we accept to Camp Hope, beginning this summer!

>>> We have nearly tripled the size of our Interns4Tomorrow program, with 19 young adults currently enrolled.

>>> We are expanding our Alumni Community program, bringing back the Alumni Counsel, and looking for more ways to offer professional growth and community support to our graduates.

>>> We are building out our Family Support staff team, to be able to provide personalized support and care to each of our families in the new year.

If you'd like to make a donation to help us start the year strong, just visit the link in our profile!

We can't wait to see you in 2023!

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Merry Christmas! We wish you the joy, peace, love Merry Christmas!

We wish you the joy, peace, love, and hope that Christ brings—today and always. 

#Kidz2Leaders
We want to say THANK YOU to the hundreds of volunt We want to say THANK YOU to the hundreds of volunteers who came to Hope4Christmas and served our K2L kids and families. 

Such a wonderful event would not have been possible without the incredible participation of our community. We are continually blown away by the way you show up and spread HOPE. 

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Celebrating Hope4Christmas 🎄✨❤️ >> 400 k Celebrating Hope4Christmas 🎄✨❤️

>> 400 kids and family members impacted by parental incarceration

>> 275 volunteers 

>> 550 personalized gifts 

>> 100 grocery bags and 175 gas and grocery gift cards 

>> 1 very meaningful event ☺️
This past weekend was Hope4Christmas, our annual c This past weekend was Hope4Christmas, our annual celebration of our Savior's birth—and what a celebration it was! 

Relationship is one of the defining characteristics of our programs, and we enjoyed such a wonderful time of connection of with our K2L families. We heard exclamations of: "It's you!" "You're here!" and "I missed you!" as campers saw their counselors and friends reconnected. Getting to be together was truly a gift! 

Stay tuned—we are excited to continue sharing highlights from the event this week...

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