U.S. Department of Justice

National Institute of Corrections

Serving Families of 

Adult Offenders A Directory

of Programs
U.S. Department of Justice

National Institute of Corrections

320 First Street, NW

Washington, DC 20534

Morris L. Thigpen

Director

Larry Solomon

Deputy Director

George M. Keiser

Chief, Community Corrections Division

Rick Faulkner

Project Manager

National Institute of Corrections

World Wide Web Site

http://www.nicic.org
Serving Families of

November 2002

NIC Accession Number: 017081

A Directory of Programs Directory of Programs 

Adult Offenders:

Family and Corrections Network

James W. Mustin

Editor/Executive Director

Donna D’Arville

Assistant Editor
This project was supported by the National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of

Justice. Points of view or opinions stated in this document are those of the author and do

not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of

Justice.
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii

Programs in the United States

Alabama

S.K.I.P., Inc. Community Resource Services - Save Kids of Incarcerated Parents . .1

Arizona

Middle Ground Prison Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Pima Community College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Arkansas

FrontLine Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Parent Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Second Genesis Ministries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

California

California Department of Corrections, Office of Community Services . . . . . . . . . .2

Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Friends Outside: National Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Friends Outside in Conta Costa County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Friends Outside in Los Angeles County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Friends Outside in Orange County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Friends Outside in Sacramento County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Friends Outside in San Bernardino County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Friends Outside in San Luis Obispo County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Friends Outside in Santa Clara County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Friends Outside in Santa Cruz County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Friends Outside in Sonoma County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Friends Outside in Stanislaus County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Friends Outside: Visitors Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Internet Friends Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

New Beginnings Visitor Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Prison Activist Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Re-Entry Prison and Jail Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Set Free Prison Ministries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Welcome House Visitor Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

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Colorado

Empowerment Program, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

FOCUS - Families and Friends of Convicts United for Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Connecticut

Families in Crisis, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Family ReEntry, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Fresh Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Isaiah 61:1, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

People Empowering People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

District of Columbia

Angel Tree/Angel Tree Camping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Federal Bureau of Prisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Message of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Our Place, DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Urban Family Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Florida

Agape Women’s Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Aleph Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Kairos Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Prison Connections, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Tampa Crossroads, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Time for Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Georgia

Aid to Children of Imprisoned Mothers, Inc. (AIM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Southern Prison Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Idaho

Idaho Department of Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Illinois

CLAIM - Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Family Connections of LSSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Hospitality House (Hebrews 13:2-3), Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Human Resources Development Institute, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Urbancare Community Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
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Indiana

Indiana Women’s Prison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

LaPorte County Community Corrections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Kansas

Topeka Correctional Facility - Inmate Family Reintegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Kentucky

CCA Marion Adjustment Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

CLEAR AIM, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Green River Correctional Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Kentucky State Reformatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Lee Adjustment Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Luther Luckett Correctional Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Lyon County Even Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Western Kentucky Correctional Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Louisiana

Dixon Correctional Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Maine

Maine Correctional Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

MidCoast Hospitality House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Maryland

Alternative Directions, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Center for Behavioral Health, Justice and Public Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Girl Scouts Behind Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Long Distance Dads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, Education Department . . . . . . . . . . .21

Maryland Division of Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

National Trust for the Development of African-American Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Massachusetts

Aid to Incarcerated Mothers (A.I.M.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Massachusetts Department of Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Michigan

Fathers Behind Bars, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Kids Need Moms - Camp Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Options Center, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
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Project SEEK - Services to Enable and Empower Kids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Minnesota

Council on Crime and Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Parenting With Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Missouri

4-H Living Interactive Family Education - Missouri Department of Corrections . . .24

Agape House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

C.H.I.P.S. - Challenging Incarcerated Parents and Spouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Center for Women in Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Criminal Justice Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Girl Scout Council of Greater St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Let’s Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Long Distance Dads - Missouri Department of Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Lutheran Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Mothers & Children Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Parenting From A Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Parents As Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

PATCH of Chillicothe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

PATCH of W.E.R.D.C.C. - Women’s Eastern Reception and Diagnostic

Correctional Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Prisoner Family Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Regeneration, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Story Link Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Nebraska

Girls and Boys Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Nebraska Correctional Center for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Visiting Nurse Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Nevada

Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Family/Community Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

New Hampshire

Aid to Incarcerated Marriages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Families Advocating for Inmate Reintegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Family Resource Center of the Lakes Region Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

New Hampshire Catholic Charities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

New Hampshire Department of Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
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New Jersey

AFSC Criminal Justice Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Girl Scouts of Rolling Hills Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

New Jersey Association on Correction (NJAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Parents Anonymous of New Jersey, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Reconciliation Ministries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

New Mexico

P B & J Family Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Prison Family Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Wings Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

New York

Children’s Center at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Community Project For Reintegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Families of Prisoners Support Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Family Justice, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Family Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Family Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Hour Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Legal Action Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

New Beginnings Even Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

New York State Department of Correctional Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Osborne Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

P.E.A.C.E., Inc. Early Head Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Prison Families Anonymous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Prison Families of New York, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Women’s Prison Association and Home, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

North Carolina

ECO, Inc. - Energy Committed to Offenders, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

M.A.T.C.H. - Mothers And Their Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Women At Risk Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Ohio

Allen Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Belmont Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Chillicothe Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Correctional Reception Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Encouraging Words, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Franklin Pre-Release Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

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Grafton Correctional Institution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Hope House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Lake Erie Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Lima Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Madison Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Marion Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Montgomery Education and Pre-Release Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

National Marriage Encounter Prison Ministry, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Noble Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

North Central Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Ohio Reformatory for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Ohio State Penitentiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Ohio State University Extension: Jefferson County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Orient Correctional Institution (OCI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Pickaway Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Richland Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Ross Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Southeastern Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Trumbull Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Wilmington College - Franklin Pre-Release Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Oklahoma

InnerChange Freedom Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Tulsa Parenting Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Oregon

ADAPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Children Made Visible, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Family Intervention Strategic Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Juvenile Division - Multnomah County Department of Community Justice . . . . . . .44

Pennsylvania

18th Street Development Corporation Raising Others’ Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Bethesda Family Services Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Capital Area Head Start - Woodside Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Family Services of Western Pennsylvania Families Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

National Clearinghouse for Defense of Battered Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

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ParentWISE, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Prisoner Visitation and Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

SCI-Muncy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Tough Love International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

South Dakota

Family Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Tennessee

Bethel Bible Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Reconciliation Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Tennessee Department of Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Texas

Association of X-Offenders (TAX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Bexar County Detentions Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

E.Q.U.I.P. Parent Education Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Eunice Chamblees Hospitality House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Hospitality House (Area Served: Big Spring) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Hospitality House (Area Served: Huntsville) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

LOOPS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

MATCH/PATCH Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

National Incarcerated Muslim Network (NIMN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

OPEN, Inc. - Offender Preparation and Education Network, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Out, But Not Free, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Parents and Children Together, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Regional Criminal Justice Ministry Center of South Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Regional Family Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Restorative Justice Ministry Network of North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

San Antonio Fighting Back of United Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Shepherds Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Skyview-Hodge Family Visitors Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Volunteers of America of Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Women At The Well House Ministries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Worldwide Voice In the Wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Utah

Draper Site Complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

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Vermont

Family Tree Access Center, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Vermont Department of Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Virginia

All God’s Children Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Assisting Families of Inmates (formerly Prison Family Support) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Family and Corrections Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Hope Aglow Ministries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Memorial Child Guidance Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Navigators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

OAR of Fairfax Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Prevent Child Abuse Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Virginia Cares Transition Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Virginia CURE (Hampton Roads) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Washington

Matthew House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Puget Sound EHS - Early Head Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Wisconsin

Columbia Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Family Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Fox Lake Correctional Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Green Bay Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Oakhill Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Oshkosh Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Racine Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Redgranite Correctional Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

St. Rose Residence Family Reunification Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Supermax Correctional Institution (SMCI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Wisconsin Department of Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

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Programs Offering National Services

USA

Aleph Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Angel Tree/Angel Tree Camping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Association of X-Offenders (TAX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Bethel Bible Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Bethesda Family Services Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Center for Behavioral Health, Justice and Public Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

CURE - Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Encouraging Words, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Fathers Behind Bars, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Family and Corrections Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Family Justice, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Girls and Boys Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

InnerChange Freedom Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Internet Friends Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Kairos Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Long Distance Dads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Message of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

National Incarcerated Muslim Network (NIMN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

National Marriage Encounter Prison Ministry, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

National Trust for the Development of African-American Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

OPEN Inc. - Offender Preparation and Education of Network, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Our Place, DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Prison Activist Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Prison Connection, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Prisoner Visitation and Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Re-Entry Prison and Jail Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Restorative Justice Ministry Network of North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Set Free Prison Ministries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Tough Love International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Urban Family Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Wings Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

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USA and International

Kairos Outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Long Distance Dads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Tough Love International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

USA and Canada

Fathers Behind Bars, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Links to Programs in Canada

Canada

Canadian Families and Corrections Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
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Introduction

This directory was prepared by the Family and Corrections Network to 

update the Directory of Programs Serving Families of Adult Offenders 

dated October 1998. This revised directory lists programs in the United States

and Canada offering services specifically for families of adult offenders. 

Entries were identified by sending survey forms to directors of departments 

of corrections in the United States, to programs listed in the 1998 directory, 

and to other programs known to the Family and Corrections Network.

Questions about this directory should be addressed to:

Jim Mustin, Executive Director

Family and Corrections Network

32 Oak Grove Road

Palmyra, VA 22963

Telephone: (434) 589-3036

E-mail: fcn@fcnetwork.org

Web site: www.fcnetwork.org

This document may be downloaded, free of charge, from the following Web sites: 

• National Institute of Corrections, www.nicic.org, and

• Family Corrections Network, www.fcnetwork.org.

Reproduction and distribution of this document are permitted and encouraged. 
Alabama

S.K.I.P., Inc. 

Community Resource Services

Save Kids of Incarcerated Parents

Telephone: (334) 284-8103

Address: 669 Bush Drive 

Hope Hull, AL 36043

E-mail: skipinc@mindspring.com

Web site: www.fcnetwork.org/programs/ 

skip.html

Contact: Gloria Jean Canty

Area Served: Montgomery, Alabama

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, mentoring, group

activities and gifts for children, religious ministry,

public education and advocacy.

Arizona

Middle Ground Prison Reform

Telephone: (480) 966-8116

Address: 139 East Encanto Drive 

Tempe, AZ 85281

E-mail: middleground@quest.net,

Web site: www.mgprisonreform.org

Contact: Donna Leone Hamm, 

Executive Director/ 

Agency Head

Area Served: Arizona

Established: 1983

Provides advocacy for rights and responsibilities

of jail and state prisoners and their supporters.

Pima Community College

Telephone: (520) 574-0024 ext. 4328

Address: 401 North Bonita Avenue 

Tucson, AZ 85709-5015

Contact: Bernie Bennett

Regional Director

Area Served: Arizona

Established: 1998

Provides parenting courses to female inmates at

Southern Arizona Release Center.

Arkansas

FrontLine Ministries

Telephone: (501) 927-2525

Address: 2107 Dogwood Place 

Springdale, AR 72762

Web site: frontline100@hotmail.com

Contact: Tom Connolly

Pastor/Agency Head

Area Served: Northwest Arkansas

Parent 

Organization: Grace Christian Fellowship

Established: 2000

Publication: A resource book for relative 

caregivers.

Provides drug and alcohol rehabilitation, family,

marriage, and parenting counseling.

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Parent Center

Telephone: (501) 660-6886 ext. 3121

Address: 5905 Forest Place 

Little Rock, AR 72207

E-mail: lujo@aristotle.net

Contacts: Dee Ann Newell

Program Manager

Doug Stadter

CEO/Agency Head

Area Served: Arkansas

Parent 

Organization: Centers for Youth and Families

Established: 1991

Provides parenting from prison (in women’s unit

and one men’s unit) and after release, formal and

informal kinship caregiver groups, public education, case management and advocacy.

Second Genesis Ministries, Inc.

Telephone: (501) 666-6831

Address: 4823 Woodlawn 

Little Rock, AR 72205

E-mail: Secondgenesis@aol.com

Contact: Dianne Swain

Executive Director

Area Served: Arkansas

Established: 1989

Provides transitional housing and emergency 

shelter for women leaving prison. Services 

include information, referrals, childcare, family

reunification support, and family therapy.

California

California Department of

Corrections, Office of 

Community Services

Telephone: (916) 323-0125

Address: P.O. Box 942883 

Sacramento, CA 94283

Contacts: Marc Stambuk, CCII

Merrie Koshell, 

Assistant Deputy Director 

Area Served: California

Established: 1985

Provides the Community Prisoner Mother

Program, four facilities (94 beds) housing inmate

mothers and their children under 6-years of age in

community treatment centers.

Also provides the Family Foundations Program,

two facilities (70 beds) housing female inmates

and their children under 6-years of age in a 

community treatment program.

Center for Children of

Incarcerated Parents

Telephone: (626) 449-8796

Address: P.O. Box 41-286 

Eagle Rock, CA 90041

E-mail: ccipdj@aol.com 

Web site: www.e-ccip.org

Contact: Denise Johnston

Director/Agency Head

Area Served: USA

Established: 1989

Publications: Provides a clearinghouse for publications and audiovisuals to 

prisoners at no cost and to others 

at cost. Contact the Center for a 

list of publications.

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Arkansas, California

Programs in the United States
Provides parent education, self-help support

groups, information, referrals, mentoring, family

reunification support, family therapy, public 

education, legal assistance and advocacy. 

Provides technical assistance, training, policy

development and research services in a variety

of areas related to children of prisoners.

Friends Outside:

National Organization

Telephone: (209) 938-0727

Address: P.O. Box 4085 

Stockton, CA 95204

E-mail: friendsoutside@aol.com

Web site: www.friendsoutside.org

Contact: Gretchen Newby 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: California

Established: 1955

Provides case management services and visitor

centers in 33 prisons in California. Provides 

parenting program for female/male inmates in

state prisons. Provides conflict resolution workshops in state prisons, jails and in the community

and family reunification programs in partnership

with the Department of Social Services.

Provides technical assistance and program 

training/development to affiliates.

Friends Outside in 

Contra Costa County

Telephone: (925) 228-0644

Address: 1127 Escobar Street 

Martinez, CA 94553

E-mail: friendsoutside@sbcglobal.net

Contact: Mary Ann Van Buren 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Contra Costa County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1969

Provides camping for children, holiday gifts 

and meals, emergency food pantry, clothing,

money management, employment assistance,

public education, self-help support group, case

management, information and referrals.

Friends Outside in 

Los Angeles County

Telephone: (626) 795-7607

Address: 464 East Walnut Street 

Pasadena, CA 91101

E-mail: focac@earthlink.net

Contact: Mary Weaver

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Los Angeles County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

www.friendsoutside.org

Established: 1982

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, case management, group activities, 

family liaison, counseling, employment 

assistance and transportation support.

Friends Outside in 

Orange County

Telephone: (714) 288-5600

Address: 2525 North Grand, #N

Santa Ana, CA 92705

Contacts: Chris Keena

Program Director

Area Served: Orange County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

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Established: 1977

Provides self-help support group, information 

and referrals, mentoring and family reunification

support.

Friends Outside in 

Sacramento County

Telephone: (916) 446-3838

Address: 2324 “L” Street 

Sacramento, CA 95816

E-mail: friendsoutside@aol.com

Contact: Dorothy Montgomery, Agency 

Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Sacramento County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1974

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, case management, group activities and

gifts for children, technical information, family

reunification support, public education and 

advocacy.

Friends Outside in 

San Bernardino County

Telephone: (909) 597-5428

Address: P.O. Box 393 

Chino, CA 91710

Contact: Cynthia Carey, Agency Head/ 

Executive Director

Area Served: San Bernardino County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1954

Provides transportation and hospitality center for

prison visitors, children’s center in visiting room,

information, referrals and childcare.

Friends Outside in 

San Luis Obispo County

Telephone: (805) 543-3888

Address: 1701 Fredericks Street 

San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

Contact: Kathleen Richen, Agency 

Head/Executive Director

Area Served: San Luis Obispo County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1975

Provides programs and services for families of

men incarcerated in California Men’s Colony 

State Prison and youth incarcerated in juvenile

detention facilities.

Friends Outside in 

Santa Clara County

Telephone: (408) 295-6033

Address: 551 Stockton Avenue 

San Jose, CA 95126

E-mail: FOinSCC@AOL.com

Contact: Jennifer Tait, Agency Head/ 

Executive Director

Area Served: Santa Clara County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1955

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, mentoring, group 

activities and gifts for children, family 

reunification support, public education and 

advocacy.

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Friends Outside in 

Santa Cruz County

Telephone: (831) 427-5070

Address: 1010 Emeline Avenue 

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

E-mail: scruz@scvolunteercenter.org

Contacts: Dan Alpes, Coordinator

Laura Novak, Agency 

Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Santa Cruz County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1989

Provides information, referrals, mentoring, gifts

for children and family reunification support.

Friends Outside in 

Sonoma County

Telephone: (707) 526-7318

Address: P.O. Box 3905 

Santa Rosa, CA 95402

E-mail: friendsoutside@msn.com,

Web site: www.friendsoutsidesonoma.org

Contacts: Steve McGirr

Program Manager

Lona Jones, Agency 

Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Sonoma County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1982

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, mentoring, 

group activities and gifts for children, conflict 

resolution workshop, technical information, 

family reunification support, public education 

and advocacy.

Friends Outside in 

Stanislaus County

Telephone: (209) 522-2209

Address: 922 “J” Street #217 

Modesto, CA 95354

E-mail: lynngold@ainet.com

Contact: Lynn Goldstein

Director/Agency Head

Area Served: Stanislaus County

Parent 

Organization: Friends Outside: National 

Organization 

Established: 1954

Provides job development, parent education, 

information, referrals, gifts for children, 

public education, advocacy, family support 

groups and inmate/family communication support.

Friends Outside: Visitors

Centers

1. Friends Outside Hospitality Center

California Institution For Men

Telephone: (909) 597-5428

Address: P.O. Box 393 

Chino, CA 91710

2. CSATF Visitor Center California 

Substance Abuse Treatment Facility 

Corcoran

Telephone: (559) 992-9756

Address: P.O. Box 608 

Corcoran, CA 93212

3. Friendship House

California Rehabilitation Center

Telephone: (707) 469-9345

Address: P.O. Box 1884 

Vacaville, CA 95696

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4. Hospitality Place 

California Rehabilitation Center

Telephone: (909) 737-7010

Address: 2334 Hamner Avenue

PMB #120 

Norco, CA 92860

5. Welcome House Visitor Center

California State Prison, Sacramento

Telephone: (916) 985-2372

Address: P.O. Box 29 

Represa, CA 95671

6. Friendship Place #1 

California Correctional Center

Telephone: (530) 257-2211

Address: P.O. Box 246 

Litchfield, CA 96117

7. Centinela Visitor Center

Centinela S. P.

Telephone: (760) 352-2466

Address: P.O. Box 220

Seeley, CA 92273

8. Esperanza 

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison

Telephone: (760) 921-8294

Address: P.O. Box 1465 

Blythe, CA 92226

9. The Gathering Place 

Deuel Vocational Institution

Telephone: (209) 835-4141 x5645

Address: P.O. Box 1953 

Tracy, CA 95378

10. Oasis Visitor Center

Avenal S. P.

Telephone: (559) 386-4370

Address: P.O. Box 340 

Avenal, CA 93204

11. Casa Frontera 

California Institution For Women

Telephone: (909) 597-0234

Address: 1234 Mountain Ave., 

Suite N234 

Chino, CA 91710

12. Tehachapi Visitor Center

California Correctional Institution

Telephone: (661) 822-3407

Address: P.O. Box 272 

Tehachapi, CA 93581

13. Friends Outside Visitor Center

California Men’s Colony

Telephone: (805) 543-3888

Address: 1701 Fredericks Street 

San Luis Obispo, CA

93405

14. Bienvenidos 

California State Prison, Corcoran

Telephone: (559) 992-4499

Address: P.O. Box 68 

Corcoran, CA 93212

15. Lancaster Visitor Center

California State Prison, 

Los Angeles County

Telephone: (661) 728-0844

Address: P.O. Box 5712 

Lancaster, CA 93539

16. Sorensen Visitor Center

Calipatria S. P.

Telephone: (760) 348-2232

Address: P.O. Box 1108 

Calipatria, CA 92233

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17. The Lighthouse 

Central California Women’s Facility

Telephone: (559) 665-4617

Address: 2340 W.Cleveland Ave.

PMB 389

Madera, CA 93638

18. El Puente Correctional Training 

Facility and SVSP/CTF Soledad

Telephone: (831) 678-1236

Address: PO Box 1112

Soledad, CA 93960

19. Friendship Place #11 

High Desert State Prison

Telephone: (530) 257-5581

Address: P.O. Box 270462 

Susanville, CA 96127

20. Desconso Visitor Center

Ironwood State Prison

Telephone: (760) 921-1964

Address: P.O. Box 1113 

Blythe, CA 92225

21. North Kern Visitor Center

North Kern State Prison

Telephone: (661) 725-3833

Address: P.O. Box 1527 

Delano, CA 93216

22. Hospitality House Visitor Center

Pelican Bay State Prison

Telephone: (707) 465-6269

Address: P.O. Box 366 

Fort Dick, CA 95538

23. Su Casa Visitor Center

R J Donovan Correctional Facility

Telephone: (619) 710-1645

Address: P.O. Box 432340 

San Ysidro, CA 92143

24. The House on the Hill 

San Quentin State Prison

Telephone: (415) 482-8509

Address: P.O. Box 396 

San Quentin, CA 94964

25. Valley State Visitor Center

Valley State Prison for Women

Telephone: (559) 665-1913

Address: 2340 W.Cleveland Ave. 

PMB 122

Madera, CA 93638

26. New Beginnings Visitor Center

Mule Creek State Prison

Telephone: (209) 274-4749

Address: P.O. Box 667 

Ione, CA 95640

27. Rainbow Visitor Center

Northern Calif. Women’s Facility

Telephone: (209) 944-9160

Address: P.O. Box 30366 

Stockton, CA 95213

28. Pleasant Valley Visitor Center

Pleasant Valley State Prison

Telephone: (559) 935-0660

Address: P.O. Box 617 

Coalinga, CA 93210

29. Mother Lode Visitor Support 

Center Sierra Conservation Center

Telephone: (209) 984-5523

Address: P.O. Box 1448 

Jamestown, CA 95327

30. Casa de Rosas

Wasco State Prison

Telephone: (661) 758-8332

Address: P.O. Box 829 

Wasco, CA 93280

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Internet Friends Outside

Telephone: (408) 238-6091

Address: 2533 Glen Dundee Way 

San Jose, CA 95148

E-mail: lbolden@aol.com

Web site: www.reentry.org

Contact: Jan L. Boldon

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1997

Publication: Bibles

Provides an online inmate/family support group

that sends cards and letters to inmates.

New Beginnings Visitor Center

Telephone: (209) 274-4749

Address: P.O. Box 667 

Ione, CA 95640

Web site: www.voa-sac.org

Contacts: Flora Phillips

Program Director

Leo McFarland

Agency Head/President/CEO

Area Served: Stockton/Ione

Parent 

Organization: V.O.A. Greater Sacramento and 

Northern Nevada

Established: 1989

Provides transportation, hospitality center, 

children’s center in visiting room, parent 

education, self-help support group, information,

referrals, childcare, mentoring, gifts for children,

marriage preparation and support, public 

education and advocacy to families of inmates in

Mule Creek State Prison.

Prison Activist Resource Center

Telephone: (510) 893-4648

Address: P.O. Box 339 

Berkeley, CA 94701

E-mail: parc@prisonactivist.org

Web site: www.prisonactivist.org

Contact: Vanessa Agard-Jones

Agency Head/Coordinator

Area Served: USA

Established: 1994

Provides information, referrals, public information and advocacy.

Re-Entry Prison and Jail Ministry

Telephone: (619) 426-4557

Address: P.O. Box 620 

Chula Vista, CA 91912

E-mail: reentry@reentry.org

Web site: www.reentry.org

Contact: Art Lyons, Chaplain/Agency 

Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1980

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, mentoring, religious

ministry, community residential program, public

education, advocacy, legal services and information for inmates transitioning back into society.

Set Free Prison Ministries, Inc.

Telephone: (909) 787-9907

Address: P.O. Box 5440 

Riverside, CA 92517

E-mail: sfpmkyr@juno.com

Contacts: Kathy Rees

Business/Finance Manager

Philip Wagner

Director/Agency Head

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Area Served: USA and Canada

Established: 1970

Publication: Bible correspondence course

Provides free Bible correspondence school for

inmates and their families.

Welcome House Visitor Center

Telephone: (916) 985-2372

Address: P.O. Box 29 

Represa, CA 95671

E-mail: leo@voasac.org

Web site: www.voa-sac.org

Contacts: Shirley Neff, Program Director

Leo McFarl

Agency Head/President/CEO

Area Served: Sacramento, Folsom

Parent 

Organization: V.O.A. Greater Sacramento and 

Northern Nevada

Established: 1989

Provides transportation, hospitality center, 

children’s center in visiting room, parent 

education, self-help support group, information,

referrals, childcare, mentoring, group activities,

gifts for children, marriage preparation and 

support, public education and advocacy to 

families of inmates in Folsom State Prison.

Colorado

Empowerment Program, The

Telephone: (303) 320-1989

Address: 1600 York Street 

Denver, CO 80206

E-mail: womenwonde@aol.com

Contact: Carol Lease, Director

Area Served: Denver

Established: 1986

Provides transportation, case management, 

housing, employment, health and education 

services to women who have been released 

from prison or jail.

FOCUS 

Families and Friends of Convicts

United for Support

Telephone: (719) 275-9570

Address: P.O. Box 2194 

Canon City, CO 81215-2194

Contacts: Linda Davis, Vice Chairperson

Clara Klemm

Agency Head/Chairperson

Area Served: Colorado

Established: 1982

Provides information and referrals and operates

children’s activity centers at two state correctional

facilities.

Connecticut

Families in Crisis, Inc.

Telephone: (860) 236-3593

Address: 30 Arbor Street - North Wing 

Hartford, CT 06106

E-mail: quinlin@familiesincrisis.org

Contact: Susan Quinlan, Executive 

Director/Agency Head

Area Served: Connecticut

Established: 1977

Provides transportation, children’s center in 

visiting area, parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, gifts for children,

technical assistance, family reunification support,

family therapy, community residential program,

counseling and support services to offenders and

their families.

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Family ReEntry, Inc.

Telephone: (203) 838-0496

Address: 9 Mott Avenue 

Norwalk, CT 06850

Web site: reentry@earthlink.net

Contact: A. Stephen Lanza, Executive 

Director/Agency HeadArea 

Served: Southwestern Connecticut

Established: 1984

Provides counseling and therapy services,

parent education, information, referrals, 

mentoring and gifts for children, offenders and

their families across a variety of sites (e.g. adult

probation, day incarceration centers, alternative to

incarceration centers, residential substance abuse

treatment facilities, pre-release prison programs).

Fresh Start

Telephone: (860) 560-5805

Address: 17 Essex Street 

Hartford, CT 06114

E-mail: Damitak@crtct.org

Web site: www.crtct.org

Contacts: Damita Kimble

Program Manager

Paul C. Puzzo, Agency 

Head/President/CEO

Area Served: Greater Hartford

Parent 

Organization: Community Renewal 

Team, Inc.

Established: 1995

Provides a community residential alternative to

incarceration for mothers with their children.

Services include transportation, parent education,

self-help support group, information, referrals,

case management, childcare, group activities and

gifts for children, technical assistance and family

reunification support.

Isaiah 61:1, Inc.

Telephone: (203) 368-6116

Address: P.O. Box 1399 

Bridgeport, CT 06604

E-mail: marylmft@cs.com

Contacts: Mary Sandor, Clinical Director

Ed Davies, Agency 

Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Connecticut

Established: 1985

Provides community residential treatment 

programs for men and women under supervision

of Connecticut Department of Correction.

Services include parent education, self-help support group, information, referrals, case management, gifts for children, religious ministry, technical information, technical assistance, family

reunification support, and family therapy.

People Empowering People

Telephone: (860) 345-4511

Address: 1066 Saybrook Road 

Haddam, CT 06438

E-mail: cczuba@canr.uconn.edu

Web site: www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/pep

Contacts: Cheryl E. Czuba, Extension 

Educator, Community 

Development

Dean Kirklyn Kerr

Dean and Director of the 

College of Agriculture

Area Served: Connecticut

Parent 

Organization: University of Connecticut 

Cooperative Extension

Established: 2000

Provides life skills and leadership training, 

mentoring, and support to families and friends 

of offenders.

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District of Columbia

Angel Tree/Angel Tree Camping

Telephone: (703) 478-0100

Address: P.O. Box 17500 

Washington, DC 20041

E-mail: angeltree@pfm.org

Web site: www.angeltree.org

Contacts: Carolyn Meraw, National 

Director of Angel Tree

Tom Pratt, Agency Head/ 

President

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Prison Fellowship Ministries

Established: 1982

Provides religious ministry and support to the

children and families of prisoners by distributing

holiday gifts to children of prisoners and 

providing a children’s camping program.

Child Welfare League of America

(CWLA)

Telephone: (202) 942-0270

Address: 440 First Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

E-mail: cseymour@cwla.org

Web site: www.cwla.org

Contacts: Cynthia Seymour

General Counsel

Shay Bilchek 

Agency Head/ Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Publications: Working with Children and 

Families Separated by 

Incarceration - A Handbook for 

Child Welfare Agencies, $18.95;

Parents in Prison: Children in 

Crisis; State Agency Survey on 

Children with Incarcerated 

Parents; Children with 

Incarcerated Parents: A Fact 

Sheet.

Provides information and referrals, technical 

assistance to child welfare agencies and public

information and advocacy.

Citizens United for Rehabilitation

of Errants (CURE)

Telephone: (202) 789-2126

Address: P.O. Box 2310 

Washington, DC 20013

Web site: www.curenational.org

Contact: Charles Sullivan

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1972

Provides advocacy to bring about prison reform

including equitable rates for inmate phone calls.

Provides information on reform and rehabilitation

to offenders and their families. For a list of

CURE’s state chapters and affiliates, see the

CURE web site at www.curenational.org.

Families Against Mandatory

Minimums (FAMM)

Telephone: (202) 822-6700

Address: 1612 K Street, NW, Suite 1400 

Washington, DC 20006

E-mail: famm@famm.org

Web site: www.famm.org

Contacts: Tom Burkert, Office Manager

Julie Stewart 

Agency Head/ President

Area Served: USA

Established: 1991

Provides advocacy for sentencing reform.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons

Telephone: (202) 307-3226

Address: 320 First Street, NW

Washington, DC 20534

E-mail: webmaster@bop.gov

Web site: www.bop.gov

Contacts: Michael Gooksey

Assistant Director

Kathleen Hawk Sawyer

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: U.S. Department of Justice

Provides parent education, family living skills 

and family literacy education at most institutions.

Provides prenatal care and information to 

pregnant prisoners. Provides MINT (Mothers 

and Inmates Together) to qualifying inmates.

MINT places pregnant prisoners in a community

facility in the last two months prior to delivery.

They remain there with their children for three

months after delivery when the child is placed

with family members.

Message of Love

Telephone: (301) 340-1146

Address: P.O. Box 65137 

Washington, DC 20035-5137

E-mail: info@aleibar.com

Web site: www.messageoflove.com

Contact: Michele Aleibar 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: A Message of Love

Established: 2001

Provides subscription service that sends monthly

inspirational greeting cards to prisoners on behalf

of family members.

Our Place, DC

Telephone: (202) 548-2400

Address: 1236 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE 

Washington, DC 20003

Contact: Susan Galbraith 

Agency Head/Executive 

Area Served: Washington, DC

Established: 1999

Provides transportation, overnight lodging, selfhelp support group, drop-in center, information,

referrals, gifts for children, family reunification

support, public education, advocacy, legal services for incarcerated and recently released women

and their families.

Urban Family Institute

Telephone: (202) 234-5437

Address: 1300 Allison Street, NW

Washington, DC 20011

E-mail: kids@ufi.org

Web site: www.ufi.org

Contacts: Heidi Colbert, Program Director 

Corrections Institution

Kent Amos 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Established: 1998

Provides self-help support, information, referrals,

technical assistance and family reunification 

support through “nurturing villages” such as Kids

House and the Urban Family University.

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Florida

Agape Women’s Center

Telephone: (305) 235-2616

Address: 22790 SW 112 Avenue 

Miami, FL 33170

E-mail: csl-agape@miami.com

Contacts: Cheryll Levarity

Director of Adult Programs

Dorothy Adair 

AgencyHead/Managing Director

Area Served: Miami

Parent 

Organization: South Florida Jail Ministry

Established: 1985

Provides community residential program with

family centered therapy for substance abusing

mothers and their children, housing, parent 

education, case management, childcare, religious

ministry and family reunification support.

Aleph Institute

Telephone: (305) 864-5553

Address: 9540 Collins Avenue 

Surfside, FL 33154

E-mail: admin@aleph-institute.org

Web site: www.aleph-institute.org

Contacts: Isaac M. Jaroslawicz

Executive Director

Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 

Agency Head/Chairman

Area Served: USA

Established: 1981

Publication: Institutional Handbook of Jewish 

Practice and Procedure

Provides Jewish religious education, counseling,

emergency assistance, and referrals for Jewish

prisoners and their families.

Kairos Outside

Telephone: (407) 629-4948

Address: 140 North Orlando Avenue, #180 

Winter Park, FL 32789

E-mail: kairosjo@aol.com

Web site: www.kairosprisonministry.org

Contacts: Jo Chapman

Coordinator, Women’s Ministries

Ike Griffin 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA and International

Parent 

Organization: Kairos, Inc.

Established: 1992

Provides mentoring, religious ministry, family

reunification support and weekend retreats for

female adults significant to the incarcerated.

Prison Connection, Inc.

Telephone: (888) 218-8464

Address: 1859 Polo Lake Drive East 

Wellington, FL 33414

E-mail: seeacon@aol.com,

Web site: www.theprisonconnection.com

Contacts: Darrell Carbone, Registrar

Sal Tarantola

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Concom, Inc.

Established: 1981

Provides bus transportation and meals for prison

visitors. Also provides gifts for children of 

prisoners.

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Tampa Crossroads, Inc.

Telephone: (813) 238-8557

Address: 5120 North Nebraska Avenue 

Tampa, FL 33603

E-mail: dan@tampa-crossroads.com

Web site: www.tampacrossroads.com

Contact: Dan Kane 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Hillsborough and Pinellas

Established: 1977

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, case management,

family reunification support, family therapy and a

community residential program for offenders and

their families.

Time for Freedom

Telephone: (352) 351-1280

Address: P.O. Box 819 

Ocala, FL 34470

E-mail: tff@gate.net

Contacts: Mike Baxley

Program Counselor

Agency Head: Bernie DeCastro

President

Area Served: Florida

Established: 1987

Publications: S.T.A.R.T. Curriculum 

workbooks and videos; 

Trauma of Transition (video); 

Bernie’s Testimony Tract.

Provides transportation, parent education, selfhelp support, information, referrals, mentoring,

group activities, religious ministry, technical

assistance, family reunification support, public

education, advocacy for male inmates, ex-inmates

and their families.

Georgia

Aid to Children of Imprisoned

Mothers, Inc. (AIM)

Telephone: (404) 221-0092

Address: 524 Larkin Street, SW

Atlanta, GA 30313

E-mail: sbarnhill@mindspring.com

Web site: www.takingaim.net

Contact: Sandra Barnhill 

Agency Head/CEO

Area Served: Atlanta

Established: 1987

Provides transportation, parent education, selfhelp support, information, referrals, mentoring,

group activities, gifts for children, technical assistance, family reunification support, public education and advocacy for children of incarcerated

women and their grandmother caregivers.

Southern Prison Ministry

Telephone: (404) 874-9652

Address: 901 Ponce de Leon Avenue, NE 

Atlanta, GA 30306-4212

Web site: www.opendoorcommunity.org

Contact: Rev. Murphy Davis

Area Served: Georgia

Parent 

Organization: Open Door Community

Established: 1977

Provides transportation for families from Atlanta

to prisons in Hardwick, Georgia and visitation

and advocacy for prisoners on Georgia’s death

row.

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Idaho

Idaho Department of Correction

Telephone: (208) 658-2000

Address: 1299 North Orchard, #110 

Boise, ID 83706

Web site: www.corr.state.id.us

Contacts: Mike Rothwell

Inmate Programs Manager

Tom Beauclair

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Idaho

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, and a children’s center in the visiting area

of some institutions

Illinois

CLAIM 

Chicago Legal Advocacy for

Incarcerated Mothers

Telephone: (312) 332-5537

Address: 220 South State Street, #830 

Chicago, IL 60604

Contact: Gail Smith 

Agency Head/ Executive Director

Area Served: Chicago area

Established: 1985

Publications: Handbook for Incarcerated 

Parent in Illinois

Provides legal aid for prisoners, classes on laws

and parental rights of prisoners, support groups 

for women recently released from prison, policy

advocacy, conferences, referrals, and support.

Family Connections of LSSI

Telephone: (773) 476-1452

Address: 1850 West Garfield 

Chicago, IL 60609

E-mail: pat.davis@lssi.org

Contacts: Patricia Davis

Senior Associate Director

Pastor Frederick Aigner 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: Illinois

Parent 

Organization: Lutheran Social Services of 

Illinois

Established: 1978

Provides transportation, lodging and hospitality

for visitors at women’s prisons, support for 

caregivers and released women, summer camp

and gifts for their children and family reunification support.

Hospitality House 

(Hebrews 13:2-3), Inc.

Telephone: (618) 826-9810

Address: 120 Ferry Street 

Chester, IL 62932

E-mail: hospitalityhouse62233@

yahoo.com

Contacts: Mary Ann Horstmann

Secretary/Treasurer

Mary Kay Steele 

Agency Head/ House Director

Area Served: Illinois

Provides overnight lodging to prisoners’ families

and friends and gifts for children.

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Human Resources 

Development Institute, Inc.

Telephone: (312) 441-9009

Address: 222 South Jefferson Street 

Chicago, IL 60661

E-mail: Msleet@hrdi.org

Web site: www.hrdi.org

Contacts: Marion G. Sleet

Senior Vice President

C. Vincent Bakeman, Ph.D. 

Agency Head/President/CEO

Area Served: Chicago

Established: 1974

Provides parent education, self-help support,

information, referrals, mentoring, family 

reunification support, family therapy, community

residential services, public education, advocacy

and substance abuse treatment services to 

offenders and their families.

Lutheran Social Services 

of Illinois

Telephone: (847) 635-4627

Address: 1001 East Touhy, Suite 50 

Des Plaines, IL 60018

E-mail: jane.otte@lssi.org

Contacts: Jane Otte, Executive Director 

Prisoner and Family Ministry

Rev. Frederick Aigner 

AgencyHead/President/CEO

Area Served: Illinois

Established: 1981

Provides transportation and overnight lodging for

prison visits, self-help support group, information,

referrals and religious ministry for families of

offenders.

Urbancare Community Services,

Inc.

Telephone: (312) 697-1269

Address: 1467 South Michigan, Suite 2F 

Chicago, IL 60605

E-mail: cobikinterltd@aol.com

Contact: Chibuzor Obiakor 

Agency Head/ President/CEO

Area Served: Cook County

Parent 

Organization: Urbancare Community 

Services, Inc.

Established: 2001

Provides parent education, self-help support,

information, referrals, case management, 

mentoring, religious ministry, technical assistance, family reunification support, family therapy, a community residential program, public education and advocacy.

Indiana

Indiana Women’s Prison

Telephone: (317) 232-1926

Address: 302 West Washington Street 

Indianapolis, IN 46204

Contacts: Kathy Lisby, Director

Planning Division

Evelyn Ridley-Turner

Agency Head/Commissioner

Area Served: Indiana

Parent 

Organization: Indiana Department of 

Corrections

Provides children’s center in visiting area, 

parent education, case management, childcare,

mentoring, religious ministry and family 

reunification support.

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LaPorte County Community

Corrections

Telephone: (219) 324-6304

Address: 500 Monroe 

LaPorte, IN 46350-3320

E-mail: p.herman@worldnet.att.net

Contacts: Phyllis Hughes

Assistant Director

Phil Herman 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: LaPorte County

Parent 

Organization: LaPorte County Government

Established: 1998

Provides parent education, case management and

family reunification support.

Kansas

Topeka Correctional Facility -

Inmate Family Reintegration

Telephone: (785) 296-7220

Address: 815 SE Rice Road 

Topeka, KS 66607

E-mail: KevenP@kdoc.dc.state.ks.us

Contacts: Tom Shopteese, Coordinator

Keven Pellant, Agency Head 

Deputy Warden of Programs

Area Served: Kansas

Parent 

Organization: Kansas Department of 

Corrections

Established: 1988

Provides classes on parenting skills, prenatal and

child development, nutrition, self-esteem and

anger management, special visiting area for 

children, transportation, self-help support group,

information, referrals, case management, group

activities, gifts for children, marriage preparation 

and support, family reunification support, public

education and advocacy for inmates and their 

families.

Kentucky

CCA Marion Adjustment Center

Telephone: (270) 692-9622

Address: P.O. Box 10 

St. Mary, KY 40063

Contacts: Amy Walston, Counselor

Barry Brady 

Agency Head/Assistant Warden

Area Served: Kentucky

Parent 

Organization: Corrections Corporation 

of America

Established: 1992

Provides parent education.

CLEAR AIM, Inc.

Telephone: (502) 772-4022

Address: 4522 West Broadway 

Louisville, KY 40211

E-mail: robenenterprises@msn.com

Web site: www.clearaiminc.com

Contact: Sherrell Bentley

Program Director

Area Served: Jefferson County

Parent 

Organization: AIM, Inc.

Established: 1999

Provides transportation for visiting, information,

referrals, mentoring, group activities, gifts, public

education, advocacy, and legal services and 

information for children and teens whose mothers

are serving long term sentences at the Kentucky

Correctional Institution for Women.

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Green River Correctional

Complex

Telephone: (270) 754-5415

Address: P.O. Box 9300 

Central City, KY 42330

Contact: Patti Webb 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Kentucky

Parent 

Organization: Kentucky Department of 

Corrections

Provides parent education and special visiting

activities for children.

Kentucky Correctional 

Institution for Women

Telephone: (502) 241-8454

Address: P.O. Box 337 

Pewee Valley, KY 40056

Web site: www.cor.state.ky.us/KCIW.htm

Contacts: MacArthur Darby

Deputy Warden of Programs

Doris Deuth 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Kentucky

Parent 

Organization: Kentucky Department of 

Corrections

Provides parent education and special visiting

activities for children.

Kentucky State Reformatory

Telephone: (502) 222-9441

Address: 3001 West Highway 146 

LaGrange, KY 40032

E-mail: tom.mugavin@mail.state.ky.us,

Web site: www.cor.state.ky.us/

Contacts: Thomas P. Mugavin

Deputy Warden Programs

William Seabold 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Kentucky

Parent 

Organization: Kentucky Department of 

Corrections

Provides parent education as part of life skills

classes.

Lee Adjustment Center

Telephone: (606) 464-2866

Address: P.O. Box 900 

Beattyville, KY 41311

Contacts: Tammy Gillum

Classification and Treatment 

Office

David Frye 

Agency Head/Programs Manager

Area Served: Kentucky

Established: 1991

Provides parent education services.

Luther Luckett Correctional

Complex

Telephone: (502) 222-0363

Address: P.O. Box 6 

LaGrange, KY 40031

E-mail: kathy.bingham@mail.state.ky.us

Contacts: Sonya Jemley 

Classification/Treatment Officer

Larry Chandler 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Kentucky

Parent 

Organization: Kentucky Department of 

Corrections

Established: 2001

Provides parent education program.

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Lyon County Even Start

Telephone: (270) 388-9715

Address: 215 Jenkins Road 

Eddyville, KY 42038

E-mail: djohnson@lyon.k12.ky.us

Contacts: Denise Johnson

Director of Special Programs

Larry Lock 

Agency Head/Superintendent

Area Served: Lyon County

Parent 

Organization: Lyon County Schools

Established: 2000

Provides family literacy, parent education, gifts 

for children, family reunification support, public

information and advocacy.

Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky

Telephone: (859) 225-8879

Address: 489 East Main Street, 3rd Floor 

Lexington, KY 40507

E-mail: tberlin@pcaky.org

Web site: www.pcaky.org

Contacts: Trey Berlin

Coordinator of Parent Support 

Services

Jill Seyfred 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Kentucky

Parent 

Organization: Prevent Child Abuse America

Established: 1992

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, technical assistance,

public education and advocacy for incarcerated

fathers.

Western Kentucky 

Correctional Complex

Telephone: (270) 388-9781

Address: P.O. Box 5000 

Eddyville, KY 42038

E-mail: dale.watson@mail.state.ky.us

Contacts: Tom Simpson

Deputy Warden

Dale Watson 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Lyon County

Parent 

Organization: Kentucky Department of 

Corrections

Established: 2000

In cooperation with Lyon County Even Start, 

provides family literacy, parent education, gifts 

for children, family reunification support, public

information and advocacy.

Louisiana

Dixon Correctional Institute

Telephone: (225) 634-1200

Address: P.O. Box 788 

Jackson, LA 70748

E-mail: breeves@oyd01.

corrections.state.la.us

Web site: www.geocities.com/

dixoncorrectional

Contacts: Brandon Reeves

Mental Health Director

James LeBlanc 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Louisiana

Parent 

Organization: Louisiana Department of 

Corrections

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Established: 1999

Provides children’s center in visiting room and

gifts for children.

Maine

Maine Correctional Center

Telephone: (207) 895-7000

Address: Box 260 

Windham, ME 04082

Contacts: Lorraine Christensen

Director, Project HIP

Scott Burnheimer, Agency Head 

Acting Superintendent

Area Served: Maine

Parent 

Organization: Project HIP

Established: 1980

Provides parenting classes, support groups, 

and monthly children’s workshops, visits in a day

care setting.

MidCoast Hospitality House

Telephone: (207) 594-1422

Address: P.O. Box 155 

Rockport, ME 04856

E-mail: mchh@midcoast.com

Contacts: Susan Silverio, Executive

Director

Samantha or Gordon Mank, Jr. 

Agency Heads/House Managers

Area Served: Maine

Parent 

Organization: MidCoast Hospitality House

Established: 1988

Provides hospitality center, transportation,

overnight lodging and religious ministry.

Maryland

Alternative Directions, Inc.

Telephone: (410) 889-5072

Address: 2505 North Charles Street 

Baltimore, MD 21218

E-mail: adi@clark.net

Contacts: Kathryn Vaeth

Legal Services Coordinator

Mary Joel Davis 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Maryland

Established: 1991

Provides civil legal assistance for family related

legal issues, visitation negotiations with social

services, transitional services for women 

incarcerated in Maryland or released from prison

to the community.

Center for Behavioral Health,

Justice and Public Policy

Telephone: (410) 724-5007

Address: 8490 Dorsey Run Road 

Jessup, MD 20794

Web site: www.umaryland.edu/

behavioraljustice

Contacts: Yu Ling Ham, Ph.D.

Program Manager

Fred Osher, M.D. 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: University of Maryland

Established: 1999

Provides research, training program evaluation,

policy recommendations for persons with mental

illness/addictive disorders in the justice system.

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Girl Scouts Beyond Bars

Telephone: (410) 358-9711

Address: 4806 Seton Place 

Baltimore, MD 21215

Web site: www.gscm.org

Contacts: Marina Gethers

Project Coordinator

Tisha Crumble 

Agency Head/Outreach Manager

Area Served: Maryland

Parent 

Organization: Girl Scouts of Central Maryland

Established: 1992

Provides transportation, parent education, 

mentoring, group scouting activities and family

reunification.

Long Distance Dads

Telephone: (301) 948-0599

Address: 101 Lake Forest Boulevard

Suite 360 

Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Web site: www.fatherhood.org

Contacts: Randell Turner, Ph.D. 

Vice President

Dr. Wade Horn 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA and International

Parent 

Organization: National Fatherhood Initiative

Established: 1996

Publication: Curriculum manual

Provides curriculum, training and technical 

assistance for a parent education program for

incarcerated fathers used in over 90 correctional

facilities in the US, Canada and Great Britain.

Maryland Correctional 

Institution for Women, 

Education Department

Telephone: (410) 799-5550 ext. 306

Address: P.O. Box 535 

Jessup, MD 20794

Contacts: Beverly Reid

Family Life Educator

Dr. Carolyn Buser 

Agency Head/Acting Director 

Correctional Education

Area Served: Maryland

Parent 

Organization: Maryland Division of Correction

Established: 1994

Provides children’s center in visiting room, 

parent education, information and referrals, 

gifts for children, a nursery, public information

and advocacy for incarcerated mothers, their 

children and caregivers.

Maryland Division of Correction

Telephone: (410) 585-3371

Address: 6776 Reisterstown Road 

Baltimore, MD 21215

E-mail: bboyle@dpscs.state.md

Web site: www.nsl.dpscs.state.md.us

Contacts: Barbara A. Boyle

Director-Social Work

William W. Sondervan, Ed.D.

Agency Head

Area Served: Maryland

Parent 

Organization: Maryland Department of 

Public Safety and Correctional 

Services

Established: 1985

Provides pregnant inmates with extended 

visitation periods after delivery, postpartum 

support group, parent education, family 

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reunification support. Provides children’s centers

in visiting rooms and group activities for children

at some institutions.

National Trust for the

Development of AfricanAmerican Men

Telephone: (301) 887-0100

Address: 6811 Kenilworth Avenue

Suite 501 

Riverdale, MD 20737

E-mail: mendezjr@msn.com

Web site: www.keepthetrust.org

Contact: Garry A. Mendez, Jr. 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1989

Provides technical assistance for a men’s parent

education and self-help support program based 

on African-American values.

Massachusetts

Aid to Incarcerated Mothers

(A.I.M.)

Telephone: (617) 536-0058

Address: 32 Rutland Street 

Boston, MA 02118

Contact: Jean Fox 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Boston

Established: 1979

Provides pre-release and post-release services for 

incarcerated mothers and their children. Services

include: case management, legal advocacy, 

psychological assessment, counseling, parent 

education, support groups, information, referrals,

gifts for children, technical assistance, and family

reunification support for mothers and children.

Massachusetts Department 

of Correction

Telephone: (508) 422-3300

Address: 50 Maple Street, Suite 3 

Milford, MA 01757

E-mail: asemodi@doc.state.ma.us

Web site: www.magnet.state.ma.us/doc

Contacts: Andrea Emodi, Director

Program Services

Michael T. Maloney 

Agency Head/Commissioner

Area Served: Massachusetts

Parent 

Organization: Volunteers and Vendors

Provides children’s centers in visiting rooms, 

parent education, self-help support groups, 

information, referrals, case management, group

activities for children, religious ministry, and 

family reunification support.

Michigan

Fathers Behind Bars, Inc.

Telephone: (616) 684-5715

Address: 525 Superior Street 

Niles, MI 49120

E-mail: fathersbehindbars2@msn.com

Contact: Marilyn I. Hamilton

Agent and Treasurer

Arthur L. Hamilton, Jr. 

Agency Head/President/Founder

Area Served: USA and Canada

Parent 

Organization: Fathers Behind Bars, Inc.

Established: 1994

Provides publications and technical assistance 

on self-help support groups for incarcerated

fathers.

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Kids Need Moms - Camp Branch

Telephone: (517) 278-3204 ext. 392

Address: 19 Fourth Street 

Coldwater, MI 49036

Contacts: Tricia Foster

KNM Coordinator

Audrey Taylor 

Agency Head/Board President

Area Served: Camp Branch

Parent 

Organization: Michigan Department of 

Corrections

Established: 1990

Provides an enhanced visiting program, 

transportation, parent education, information,

referrals, case management, mentoring, gifts 

for children, and family reunification support.

Options Center, Inc.

Telephone: (734) 677-1840

Address: 2890 Carpenter Road, Suite 700 

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

E-mail: options@juno.com

Web site: www.comnet.org/options

Contacts: Joan Doughty

Children’s Program Coordinator

Lin Orrin Agency 

Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Washtenaw County

Parent 

Organization: Options Center

Established: 1992

Provides counseling, tutoring, mentoring, referrals

and advocacy for children of incarcerated parents.

Project SEEK

Services to Enable and Empower Kids

Telephone: (810) 767-5750

Address: 806 Tuuri Place 

Flint, MI 48503

E-mail: sarahc@mottchc.org

Contact: Sarah Canterbury, Secretary

Area Served: Genesee County

Parent 

Organization: Mott Children’s Health Center

Established: 1988

Provides tutoring and support groups for children;

information groups, family outings, emergency

assistance, referrals, and transportation for their

families.

Minnesota

Council on Crime and Justice

Telephone: (612) 348-7874

Address: 903 Washington Avenue South 

Minneapolis, MN 55419

E-mail: jensenc@crimeandjustice.org

Contacts: Cheryl Jensen

Program Director

Tom Johnson 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: Minneapolis, St. Paul

Parent 

Organization: Minnesota

Established: 1986

Provides transportation to state prisons, 

information, referrals, case management, 

advocacy, family education, youth mentoring 

and tutoring, support, family reunification 

support, and legal assistance.

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Parenting With Purpose

Telephone: (763) 503-2892

Address: 6040 Earle Brown Drive

Suite #108 

Brooklyn Center, MN 55430

E-mail: pwp@lightdog.com

Contact: Lori Strong

Executive Director

Paul Strong 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: Minneapolis, St. Paul

Established: 1996

Provides parent education, religious ministry,

transportation for visits, mentoring, and family

reunification support.

Missouri

4-H Living 

Interactive Family Education -

Missouri Department of

Corrections

Telephone: (573) 751-2389

Address: 2729 Plaza Drive 

Jefferson City, MO 65102

E-mail: Eready@mail.doc.state.mo.us

Web site: www.state.mo.us

Contacts: Rick Secoy

Institutional Activities 

Coordinator

Dora B. Schriro 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Missouri

Parent 

Organization: 4-H Organization

Provides enhanced visiting, parent education, and

group activities to incarcerated fathers and their

families at Potosi Correctional Center. Program

uses National 4-H organizational framework.

Agape House

Telephone: (573) 636-5737

Address: 810 East High 

Jefferson City, MO 65101

Contact: Linda Lamb, Manager

Area Served: Jefferson City

Established: 1980

Provides overnight lodging for family and friends

visiting inmates in area prisons. Also provides

family reunification support.

C.H.I.P.S.

Challenging Incarcerated Parents and

Spouses

Telephone: (573) 751-2389

Address: 2729 Plaza Drive 

Jefferson City, MO 65102

E-mail: Eready@mail.doc.state.mo.us

Web site: www.state.mo.us

Contacts: George Hodge

Institutional Activities 

Coordinator

Dora B. Schriro 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Missouri

Parent 

Organization: Missouri Department of 

Corrections

Established: 1989

Provides enhanced visiting, parent education, 

marriage seminars, family reunification support

and referrals for fathers at Algoa Correctional

Center.

Center For Women In Transition

Telephone: (314) 771-5207

Address: 2647 Ohio Street 

St. Louis, MO 63118

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E-mail: cwit@stlouis.missouri.org

Contact: Sr. Rose McLarney

Agency Head/Administrator

Area Served: St. Louis

Established: 1997

Provides information, referrals and volunteer 

mentors for women exiting incarceration.

Provides advocacy for needs of children of

offenders and alternative sentencing for women.

Criminal Justice Ministry

Telephone: (314) 241-8062

Address: 1408 South 10th Street 

St. Louis, MO 63104

E-mail: cjm99@earthlink.net

Web site: http://welcome.to/cjmstlouis

Contact: Carleen Reck 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: St. Louis

Parent 

Organization: Society of St. Vincent de Paul 

Established: 1979

Provides information, referrals, mentoring, public

information and advocacy.

Girl Scout Council of 

Greater St. Louis

Telephone: (314) 592-2366

Address: 2130 Kratky Road 

St. Louis, MO 63114

E-mail: jscheer@gscgsl.org

Web site: www.GSCGSL.org

Contacts: Jan Scheer

Program Manager

Theresa E. Loveless 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: St Louis

Parent 

Organization: Girls Scouts of the USA

Established: 1996

Provides transportation and expenses for Girl

Scouts Beyond Bars, Girl Scout troop meetings in

St. Louis and activities with moms and their

daughters at the correctional center.

Let’s Start

Telephone: (314) 241-2324

Address: 1408 South 10th Street 

St. Louis, MO 63104

E-mail: jtoben@icon-stl.net

Contacts: Cynthia Stevenson

Advocacy Coordinator

Jackie Toben 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: St. Louis

Established: 1989

Provides support for women coming out of

prison, their children, and the caregivers of their

children. Also provides public education and

advocacy.

Long Distance Dads - 

Missouri Department of

Corrections

Telephone: (573) 751-2389

Address: 2729 Plaza Drive 

Jefferson City, MO 65102

E-mail: Eready@mail.doc.state.mo.us

Web site: www.state.mo.us

Contacts: Joe Miller, Psychologist

Dora B. Schriro 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Missouri

Parent 

Organization: The Fathers Workshop

Established: 2000

Provides parent education, self-help and family

reunification support for incarcerated fathers at

several Missouri facilities.

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Lutheran Ministries

Telephone: (314) 268-1171

Address: 3558 South Jefferson 

St. Louis, MO 63118

Contacts: Sarah Barnes, Family Outreach

Rev. Richard Tezloff 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: St. Louis

Established: 1985

Provides transportation, self-help support group,

mentoring, religious ministry and referrals.

Mothers & Children Together

Telephone: (314) 241-2324

Address: 1408 South 10th Street 

St. Louis, MO 63104

E-mail: momchild2gether@yahoo.com

Contact: Pam Palacios, Agency Head

Advocacy Coordinator

Area Served: St. Louis

Parent 

Organization: Let’s Start, Inc.

Established: 1996

Publications: Mothers in Prison; 

Children in Crisis

Provides transportation to Vandalia women’s

prison, public education and advocacy.

Parenting From A Distance

Telephone: (573) 751-2389

Address: 2729 Plaza Drive 

Jefferson City, MO 65102

E-mail: Eready@mail.doc.state.mo.us

Web site: www.state.mo.us

Contacts: Jacqueline Hand-Dennis 

Institutional Activities 

Coordinator

Dora B. Schriro 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Missouri

Parent 

Organization: Missouri Department of 

Corrections

Established: 1999

Provides a parent education program for 

incarcerated fathers at the Central Missouri

Correctional Center.

Parents As Teachers

Telephone: (573) 581-3776

Address: 920 South Jefferson 

Mexico, MO 65265

Contacts: Sandra Morrow, Parent Educator

Wendy Mills 

Agency Head/Administrator

Area Served: Audrain County

Parent 

Organization: Mexico County Schools

Established: 1999

Provides parent education, counseling, 

information, referrals, gifts for children and 

family reunification support

PATCH of Chillicothe

Telephone: (660) 646-6462

Address: P.O. Box 871 

Chillicothe, MO 64601

Contact: Coleen Scott 

Agency Head/PATCH Director

Area Served: Missouri

Established: 1984

Provides enhanced mother-child visits in a 

home-like setting, pre- and post-visit counseling,

parent education, re-entry preparation and support

group, information, referrals, gifts for children,

mentoring, public education and advocacy, family

therapy, family reunification support, and 

transportation for visits at Chillicothe

Correctional Center.

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PATCH of W.E.R.D.C.C. 

Women’s Eastern Reception and

Diagnostic Correctional Center

Telephone: (573) 594-6686 ext. 2648

Address: Highway E 54 

Vandalia, MO 63382

Contacts: Deanna McMorris

PATCH Director

Larry Orr, Agency Head 

PATCH Board President

Area Served: Missouri

Established: 1982

Provides transportation, overnight lodging, 

children’s center in the visiting area, gifts for 

children, and enhanced visiting for incarcerated

mothers at Women’s Eastern Reception and

Diagnostic Correctional Center.

Prisoner Family Services

Telephone: (314) 381-6001

Address: 3540 Marcus Avenue 

St. Louis, MO 63115

Contact: Rev. Ted Schroeder 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: St. Louis

Parent 

Organization: Immanuel Lutheran Church

Established: 1974

Provides transportation once or twice per month 

to 18 Missouri correctional centers. Also provides

overnight lodging, information, referrals, gifts for

children, public education and advocacy.

Regeneration, Inc.

Telephone: (314) 432-5683

Address: P.O. Box 3293 

St. Louis, MO 63130

E-mail: luvispwr27@aol.com

Contact: Evangelist Wilma Warren 

Agency Head/Founder/CEO

Area Served: Mid-West Missouri

Parent 

Organization: He Cares/He Hears/He Answers

Established: 1998

Provides a mentoring/life-skills program for 

children with incarcerated parents, parent 

education, self-help support group, information,

referrals, religious ministry, family reunification

support, community residential services, public

education and advocacy.

Story Link Program

Telephone: (314) 434-2310

Address: 12465 Olive Street 

St. Louis, MO 63141

E-mail: ggfine@home.com

Contacts: Dana Abendschein

Story Link Program Director

Quay Finefrock, Agency Head 

Director, Parkway Prison 

Ministries

Area Served: Midwest

Parent 

Organization: Parkway Prison Ministries

Established: 1998

Helps inmate audiotape a story and a brief 

message for her child and sends the tape to the

child. Also provides religious ministry.

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Nebraska

Girls and Boys Town

Telephone: (402) 498-1072

Address: 14100 Crawford Street 

Boys Town, NE 68010

E-mail: whitet@boystown.org

Web site: www.boystown.org

Contacts: Tiffany White-Welchen

Parenting Manager

Bobbie O’Connor 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Common Sense Parenting

Established: 1998

Publication: Common Sense Parenting 

from a Distance

Provides a parent education curriculum for 

parents with limited access to their children

including prisoners.

Nebraska Correctional Center 

for Women

Telephone: (402) 362-3317

Address: 1107 Recharge Road 

York, NE 68467

Contacts: Mary Alley

Parenting Program Coordinator

Mona Rhynalds 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Nebraska

Parent 

Organization: Nebraska Department of 

Correctional Services

Established: 1976

Provides parenting and childbirth classes,

overnight and day child visits, and nursery for 

inmates’ babies who may stay with their mothers

up to 18-months of age.

Visiting Nurse Association

Telephone: (800) 456-8869

Address: 1941 South 42nd Street, Suite

225 Omaha, NE 68105

E-mail: bcl-vnam@radiks.net

Contacts: Betty Cernech

Vice President

Janice Treml 

Agency Head/CEO

Area Served: Douglas and Sarpy Counties

Parent 

Organization: Visiting Nurse Association

Established: 1997

Provides public health nursing services, parent

education, information, referrals and case 

management to pregnant and parenting women

and teens incarcerated in state and local facilities.

Also provides follow-up and home visitation after

release and public information and advocacy.

Nevada

Friends and Family of

Incarcerated Persons

Telephone: (702) 223-6600

Address: P.O. Box 93601 

Las Vegas, NV 89193

E-mail: ffipFFIP@aol.com

Web site: http://ffip.tripod.com

Contact: Kim Bakken, Secretary

Donna Metcalf 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: Southern Nevada

Established: 1998

Provides a self-help support group, information

and referrals.

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Family/Community Services

Center

Telephone: (775) 887-3233

Address: P.O. Box 7011 

Carson City, NV 89701

E-mail: hodge@govmail.state.nv.us

Web site: http://prisons.state.nv.us

Contacts: Michelle Hodge

Director of Family Services

Jackie Crawford, Agency Head 

Director, Nevada Department 

of Prisons

Area Served: Nevada 

Parent 

Organization: Nevada Department of Prisons

Established: 2000

Provides information, referrals and family 

reunification support for prisoners and their 

families.

New Hampshire

Aid to Incarcerated Marriages

Telephone: (603) 271-1862 

(Ask for Mr. Brock)

Address: P.O. Box 14 

Concord, NH 03302-0014

E-mail: wbrock@nhdoc.state.nh.us

Contacts: Robert J. Paradise, Ph.D.

Inmate Facilitator

Marilee Nihan, Agency Head 

Administrator of Programs

Area Served: New Hampshire

Established: 1993

Provides a support group, parent education, 

information, referrals, marriage preparation and

support, family reunification support, family 

therapy, and marriage counseling.

Families Advocating for 

Inmate Reintegration

Telephone: (603) 224-0120

Address: P.O. Box 805 

Concord, NH 03302-0805

E-mail: fairnh@totalnetnh.net

Contact: Gloria G. Paradise 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: New Hampshire

Established: 1999

Provides transportation, a self-help support group,

information and referrals for families and friends

of New Hampshire prisoners.

Family Resource Center of the

Lakes Region Facility

Telephone: (603) 528-9266

Address: 1 Right Way 

Laconia, NH 03246

E-mail: familyresourcecenter@yahoo.com

Contact: Kristina Toth, Agency Head 

Program Administrator

Area Served: New Hampshire

Parent 

Organization: New Hampshire 

Department of Corrections

Established: 1998

Provides parent education, support groups, special

visits, seminars and stories recorded on audiotapes sent home, information and referrals.

New Hampshire 

Catholic Charities

Telephone: (603) 228-1108

Address: 176 Loudon Road 

Concord, NH 03301

Contact: Rosemary Crowley

Outreach Coordinator

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Area Served: New Hampshire

Established: 1996

Provides a support group for families of 

prisoners.

New Hampshire 

Department of Corrections

Telephone: (603) 271-5600

Address: P.O. Box 1806 

Concord, NH 03302-1806

E-mail: mnihan@nhdoc.state.nh.us

Web site: www.state.nh.us/doc

Contacts: Marilee Nihan

Administrator of Programs

Phil Stanley 

Agency Head/Commissioner

Area Served: New Hampshire

Provides children’s center in visiting rooms, 

parent education, self-help support groups, 

information, referrals, case management, 

mentoring, gifts for children, marriage preparation

and support, and public education and advocacy

to offenders, their spouses and children, and their

children’s caregivers.

New Jersey

AFSC Criminal Justice Program

Telephone: (973) 643-3192

Address: 972 Broad Street 

Newark, NJ 07102

Web site: www.afsc.org

Contacts: Bonnie Kerness

Associate Director

Michael Elsner 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: New Jersey, Connecticut,

and New York

Parent 

Organization: American Friends 

Service Committee

Established: 1994

Provides casework services including counseling

to ex-prisoners and their families, advocacy on

control unit issues, and a mentorship program for

pre-adjudicated youth.

Girls Scouts of 

Rolling Hills Council

Telephone: (908) 725-1226

Address: 1171 Highway 28 

North Branch, NJ 08876

E-mail: rdonovan@girlscouts-rh.org

Contacts: Shameko Greene

Director of Special Projects

Marilyn A. Siegel 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New Jersey

Established: 1995

Provides transportation, enhanced visiting, parent

education, childcare, mentoring, gifts for children,

group scouting activities and family reunification

support for girls 5-years to 17-years of age 

whose mothers are incarcerated at Edna Mahan

Correctional Facility for Women.

New Jersey Association 

on Correction (NJAC)

Telephone: (609) 396-8900 ext. 19

Address: 986 South Broad Street 

Trenton, NJ 08611

E-mail: Jhanley@njaconline.org

Contacts: Julie K. Hanley

Grants Manager

James A. Hemm 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New Jersey

Established: 1961

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Provides transportation, parent education, 

information, referrals, case management, family

reunification support, community residential 

program, public education, and advocacy.

Parents Anonymous 

of New Jersey, Inc.

Telephone: (609) 243-9779

Address: 12 Roszel Road, Suite A-103 

Princeton, NJ 08554

E-mail: kroepanj@aol.com

Web site: www.pa-of-nj.org

Contacts: Kathleen Roe 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New Jersey

Established: 1998

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, and referrals for incarcerated

mothers and fathers in halfway houses.

Reconciliation Ministries, Inc.

Telephone: (201) 837-0190

Address: P.O. Box 901 

Teaneck, NJ 07666

E-mail: rmincor@aol.com

Contact: Anne L. Hunt 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New Jersey

Established: 1993

Provides parent education, counseling, 

information, referrals, religious ministry, and 

family reunification support for offenders, their

families and the caregivers of their children.

New Mexico

P B & J Family Services, Inc.

Telephone: (505) 877-7060

Address: 1101 Lopez, SW

Albuquerque, NM 87105

Contacts: Debbie Sanchez

Site Director

Angie Vachio 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Bernalillo, Cibola, Valenci,

and Sandoval Counties

Established: 1989

Provides transportation, enhanced visiting, 

parent education, information, referrals, case 

management, childcare, group activities, gifts 

for children, family reunification support, and

family therapy at four New Mexico prisons.

Prison Family Services

Telephone: (505) 527-4046

Address: P.O. Box 639 

Las Cruces, NM 88005-0639

Contacts: Olga Granado

Coordinator

Charles C. Brewster 

Agency Head/Managing Director

Area Served: Dona Ana County

Established: 1990

Provides transportation, overnight lodging, 

hospitality center, children’s center in visiting

area, information, referrals, childcare, gifts for

children, religious ministry, public education 

and advocacy.

Wings Ministry

Telephone: (505) 291-6412

Address: 2226 B Wyoming, NE, #130 

Albuquerque, NM 87112

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E-mail: annedenfield@email.msn.com

Web site: www.globallogos.org

Contact: Ann Edenfield

Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Global Logos

Provides religious ministry outreach gatherings

(Easter, Back-To-School, and Christmas) to 

families of prisoners.

New York

Children’s Center at Bedford

Hills Correctional Facility

Telephone: (914) 241-3100 ext. 4050

Address: 247 Harris Road 

Bedford Hills, NY 10507

E-mail: childrens_center

@mindspring.com

Contact: Toni Campoamor 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: New York

Parent 

Organization: Catholic Charities

Diocese of Brooklyn

Established: 1980

Provides transportation, overnight lodging, a 

children’s center and playroom in the visiting 

area, parent education, information, referrals, 

gifts for children, a nursery, family reunification

support, public education and advocacy. The 

summer visiting program hosts children of 

prisoners in nearby homes so they can take 

part in extensive visits and special activities 

with their mothers. The overnight program 

hosts children one weekend per month during 

the school year. The Children’s Center provides

mothers training in foster care issues, child 

custody and family law. The nursery program

allows mother and child to stay together 

12-months to 18-months, provides child 

development training, pre-natal workshops, 

family literacy education and transitional 

support for children leaving the program.

Community Project For

Reintegration

Telephone: (718) 422-2864

Address: 166 Montague Street 

Brooklyn, NY 11201

E-mail: amcammett@legal-aid.org

Contacts: Ann Cammett

Attorney

Emily Ruben, Agency Head 

Attorney-in-charge, Brooklyn

Neighborhood Office

Area Served: Brooklyn, Manhattan

Parent 

Organization: The Legal Aid Society, 

Brooklyn Neighborhood Office

Established: 2000

Provides legal services and information to 

formerly incarcerated women.

Families of Prisoners 

Support Project

Telephone: (315) 475-4822

Address: 420 1/2 Gifford Street 

Syracuse, NY 13204

E-mail: mzender@afsc.org

Web site: www.afsc.org

Contacts: Luz Marina Zender

Program Assistant

Hope Wallis 

Agency Head/Area Director

Area Served: Onondago County

Parent 

Organization: American Friends Service 

Committee

Established: 1999

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Provides transportation assistance, self-help 

support group, information, referrals, mentoring,

group activities, gifts for children, family 

reunification support, public education and 

advocacy.

Family Justice, Inc.

Telephone: (212) 982-2335

Address: 272 East Third Street 

New York, NY 10009

E-mail: cshapiro@familyjusticeinc.org

Web site: www.familyjusticeinc.org

Contact: Carol Shapiro

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1996

Provides training and technical assistance in 

family case management, a model that identifies

and mobilizes family and community support 

for the treatment of drug addiction and other

criminal justice related problems. The model is

based on La Bodega de la Familia, a storefront

program in New York City.

Family Resource Center

Telephone: (800) 344-3314

Address: 175 Remsen Street, 8th Floor 

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Web site: www.osborneny.org

Contacts: Alison Coleman, Coordinator

Family Resource Center

Elizabeth Gaynes

Agency Head/Executive Director 

Osborne Association

Area Served: New York State

Parent 

Organization: Osborne Association

Established: 2001

Provides toll free hotline serving New York State,

(800) 344-3314, and a support group.

Family Works

Telephone: (718) 637-6506

Address: 175 Remsen Street, 8th Floor 

Brooklyn, NY 11201

E-mail: talexander@osborneny.org

Web site: www.osborneny.org

Contacts: Tom Alexander, Director of 

Family Works Program

Elizabeth Gaines 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New York

Parent 

Organization: Osborne Association

Provides a parent education program for 

incarcerated fathers and a children’s center in 

the visiting area at Sing Sing, Woodbourne and

Shawangunk Correctional Facilities.

Hour Children

Telephone: (718) 433-4724

Address: 36-11A 12 Street 

Long Island City, NY 11106

E-mail: hour.children@worldnet.ah.net

Contact: Sister Tesa Fitzgerald 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New York State

Provides five community residential programs 

for female ex-offenders and their children.

Provides parent education, enhanced visiting, 

and transportation assistance for women 

incarcerated in two New York state prisons.

Legal Action Center

Telephone: (212) 243-1313

Address: 153 Waverly Place, 8th Floor 

New York, NY 10014

E-mail: dmukamal@lac.org

Web site: www.lac.org

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Contacts: Debbie Mukamal

Staff Attorney

Paul Samuels

Agency Head/Director/President

Area Served: New York

Parent 

Organization: Legal Action Center

Established: 1972

Provides legal information for people with 

criminal records, HIV/AIDS, and drug and 

alcohol problems.

New Beginnings Even Start

Telephone: (315) 946-7530

Address: 28 Canal Street 

Lyons, NY 14489

Contacts: Sue McMaster

Coordinator

Robin Canne 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Wayne County

Parent 

Organization: Wayne County Action Program

Established: 2000

Provides family literacy program for incarcerated

parents, their children and their children’s caregivers. Services include transportation, parent 

education, self-help support group, information,

referrals, case management, childcare, gifts for

children, family reunification support, public

information and advocacy.

New York State Department of

Correctional Services

Telephone: (518) 457-3525

Address: 1220 Washington Avenue 

Albany, NY 12226

Contacts: Loyce Duke

Statewide Coordinator for

Transitional Services

Glenn S. Goord 

Agency Head/Commissioner

Area Served: New York

Parent 

Organization: New York State Department of 

Correctional Services

Established: 1976

Provides family counseling and family 

reunification support through the Transitional

Services Program, children’s centers in visiting

areas, parent education, information, referrals. 

The Family Reunion Program provides extended

private visits in secure sites on facility grounds.

Osborne Association

Telephone: (212) 673-6633

Address: 135 East 15th Street 

New York, NY 10003

Web site: www.osborneny.org

Contact: Elizabeth Gaynes

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New York State

Established: 1931

Provides the multiple services and programs 

for offenders and their families including the

Family Resource Center Hotline; Family Ties, 

a program assisting children to visit their mothers

incarcerated at Albion Correctional Facility;

Family Works, a program for incarcerated fathers

at three New York prisons; drug treatment, health,

mental health and employment assistance.

P.E.A.C.E., Inc. 

Early Head Start

Telephone: (315) 470-3371 ext. 316

Address: 808 North McBride Street 

Syracuse, NY 13203

E-mail: cmeehan@peace-caa.org

Web site: www.peace-caa.org

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Contacts: Coleen A. Meehan

Assistant Director of Child 

Development

Lisa Alford 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Onondaga County

Parent 

Organization: P.E.A.C.E., Inc.

Established: 1997

Provides parent education, information, referrals,

family reunification support, case management,

public education and advocacy for pregnant and

postpartum women incarcerated in Onondaga

County Correctional Center, their children and

their children’s caregivers.

Prison Families Anonymous

Telephone: (516) 616-3191

Address: 551 Livingston Street 

Westbury, NY 11590

E-mail: allanpfa@optonline.net 

ballanpfa@aol.com

Contacts: Barbara Allan

Director

Barbara Treen 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Long Island

Parent 

Organization: Justice Project

Established: 1974

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, case management, mentoring, gifts for

children, family reunification support, public 

education and advocacy.

Prison Families of New York, Inc.

Telephone: (518) 453-6659

Address: 40 North Main Avenue 

Albany, NY 12203

E-mail: alison.coleman@rcda.org

Contact: Alison Coleman 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: New York State

Established: 1990

Provides information, referrals, reunification 

support, self-help support groups, public 

information and advocacy.

Women’s Prison Association 

and Home, Inc.

Telephone: (212) 674-1163

Address: 110 Second Avenue 

New York, NY 10003

Web site: www.wpaonline.org

Contacts: Vicki Zubovic

Director of Development

Ann Jacobs 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: New York City

Established: 1844

Publications: Supporting Women Offenders and

Their Families; Family to Family

Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care:

Partnerships Between 

Corrections and Child Welfare; 

Breaking the Cycle of Despair: 

Children of Incarcerated 

Mothers (accompanying video 

available); The Foster Care 

Handbook for Incarcerated 

Parents: A Manual of Your Legal

Rights and Responsibilities; 

Parenting from Inside/Out: the 

Voices of Mothers in Prison; and 

Introduction to the Child Welfare 

and Criminal Justice Systems.

Provides comprehensive services to incarcerated

and formerly incarcerated women. Services

include parent education, self-help support 

group, information, referrals, case management,

mentoring, group activities and gifts for children,

nursery, family reunification support, family 

therapy, community residential services, and legal

services and information.

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North Carolina

ECO, Inc. 

Energy Committed to Offenders, Inc.

Telephone: (704) 374-0762

Address: P.O. Box 33533 

Charlotte, NC 28233-3533

Web site: ecoclark@infi.net

Contact: Myra M. Clark 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Mecklenburg County

Established: 1974

Provides jail contact visits with children, parent

education, self-help support groups, case 

management, family reunification support, family

therapy, a community residential program, public

education, advocacy, and employment preparation.

M.A.T.C.H. 

Mothers And Their Children

Telephone: (919) 828-4767

Address: 1034 Bragg Street 

Raleigh, NC 27611

E-mail: prisonmatch@aol.com

Web site: www.prisonmatch.com

Contacts: Dianne M. Daniels, Director

Pat Vineitorio, Agency Head

Social Work Supervisor III

Area Served: North Carolina

Parent 

Organization: North Carolina Correctional 

Institute for Women

Established: 1995

Provides parent education, transportation, a 

children’s center in the visiting area, enhanced 

visiting, a self-help support group, information,

referrals, gifts for children, a nursery, family

reunification support, public education and 

advocacy for mothers incarcerated at North

Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, 

and their children.

Women At Risk Program

Telephone: (828) 252-2485

Address: P.O. Box 7472 

Asheville, NC 28802

E-mail: wccj@mindspring.com

Contacts: Brenda Carleton

Program Director

Ellen Clarke 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Buncombe, Burke, Catawba, and 

Caldwell Counties

Parent 

Organization: Western Carolinians for 

Criminal Justice

Established: 1984

Provides a community-based sentencing 

alternative for women. Services include parent

education, information, referrals, case management, childcare, public education, advocacy, court

advocacy, sentencing alternatives, mental health

treatment, and substance abuse treatment.

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Allen Correctional Institution

Telephone: (419) 224-8000

Address: P.O. Box 4501 

Lima, OH 45802

E-mail: mathew.schweyer@

odrc.state.oh.us

Contacts: Mathew T. Schweyer

Recovery Service Director

James Haviland 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 1987

Provides a children’s center in the visiting area,

parent education as part of substance abuse 

treatment, information and referrals. Through

Community Connections, provides family literacy

program in which inmates read a child’s book

onto a tape that is sent to the child.

Belmont Correctional Institution

Telephone: (740) 695-5169

Address: 68518 Bannock Road, SR 331 

Clairsville, OH 43950

E-mail: Edwin.Voorhies@odrs.state.oh.us

Contacts: Edwin C. Voorhies

Unit Management Administrator

Arthur W. Tate, Jr. 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 1995

Provides a children’s center in the visiting area.

Chillicothe Correctional

Institution

Telephone: (740) 773-2616

Address: 15802 State Route 104 North 

Chillicothe, OH 45601

Contacts: Linda Woods

Case Manager

Michael Randle 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 2001

Provides a parent education program.

Correctional Reception Center

Telephone: (614) 877-2441

Address: P.O. Box 300 

Orient, OH 43146

E-mail: candy.cain@odrc.state.oh.us

Contacts: Candy Cain

Unit Management Administrator

Mark Saunders 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 1999

Provides Aunt Mary’s Story Book in which

inmates record stories on cassettes tapes for their

children; Family Ties - holiday programs and

events for inmates and their families; and Reading

Room - formal and informal reading sessions for

children in the visiting room.

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Encouraging Words, Inc.

Telephone: (614) 367-0436

Address: P.O. Box 9249 

Columbus, OH 43209

E-mail: edithholmes@msn.com

Contact: Marie Green 

Agency Head/Founder/CEO

Area Served: USA

Established: 1991

Provides training and technical assistance in

inmate parent education and family counseling.

Franklin Pre-Release Center

Telephone: (614) 445-8600

Address: 1800 Harmon Avenue 

Columbus, OH 43223

Contacts: Julie Janson

Parenting Coordinator

Patricia Andrews 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Franklin County

Established: 1999

Community Connection provides a parent 

education program which concludes with a 

special visit for graduation. Aunt Mary’s Story

Book provides books and tapes for women to 

read and send to their children. Southwest City

School Head Start provides early childhood 

education services in visiting area once a week.

Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts provide mother and

daughter, and mother and son, scouting activities.

Ohio Reads provides literacy tutoring and 

mentoring to children in visiting room. Family

Ties provides positive visiting activities for 

incarcerated women and their families.

Grafton Correctional Institution

Telephone: (440) 748-1161

Address: 2500 South Avon Belden Road 

Grafton, OH 44012

Contacts: Marsha Niswonger

Unit Management Administrator

Carl S. Anderson 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Provides children’s center in visiting area, gifts 

for children and family participation in inmate

substance abuse recovery program.

Hope House

Telephone: (330) 744-1414

Address: P.O. Box 2232 

Youngstown, OH 44604

E-mail: carol6949@hotmail.com

Contact: Carol Finneley 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Washington

Established: 1999

Provides internet visiting between children in

Washington, DC and their fathers at the private

prison in Youngstown, Ohio. Father to Child 

summer camp program brings children to

Youngstown for a week with their fathers. Father

to Child Reading program sends a child an 

audiotape of the inmate father reading a book

along with a signed copy of the book and a photo.

Lake Erie 

Correctional Institution

Telephone: (440) 599-5000

Address: P.O. Box 8000 

Conneaut, OH 44030

Contact: Rich Gansheimer 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ashtabula/Cuyahoga

Parent 

Organization: Management and Training 

Corporation

Established: 2001

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Lima Correctional Institution

Telephone: (419) 225-8060

Address: P.O. Box 4571 

Lima, OH 45802

Contacts: Deb Dunnigan

Administrative Assistant

Michael Leonard 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 2000

Provides parent education, father-daughter 

Girl Scout activities, special parent-child 

visiting, family reunification support, gifts for

children, family literacy and audio taping of 

stories for children.

Madison Correctional Institution

Telephone: (740) 852-9777

Address: P.O. Box 740 

London, OH 43140

Contacts: Marcie Henceroth 

Unit Management Administration

Alan Lazaroff 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Provides children’s center in visiting area and

marriage seminars.

Marion Correctional Institution

Telephone: (614) 752-1164

Address: 1050 Freeway Drive North 

Columbus, OH 43229

E-mail: www.drc.state.oh.us

Contacts: Christine Money

Warden

Reginald Wilkinson 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 1999

Provides 1) My Child and I: a parent education

program with special visits and group activities, 

2) Kairos Outside: a Christian ministry that

enables female family members of inmates to 

participate in a weekend spiritual renewal/retreat,

3) Aunt Mary’s Story Book: fathers record a book

for their children. The tape and book are then sent

to the child, and 4) Ohio Reads: a special Reading

Rooms for children in the visiting area.

Montgomery Education 

and Pre-Release Center

Telephone: (937) 262-9853

Address: 1901 South Gettysburg Avenue 

Dayton, OH 45418

Contacts: Cambra Mockabee

Correctional Program Specialist

Curtis Wingard 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 1998

Provides children’s center in visiting area, parent 

education, information, referrals, case management and family reunification support.

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National Marriage Encounter

Prison Ministry, Inc.

Telephone: (513) 385-0222

Address: P.O. Box 53583 

Cincinnati, OH 45253

Contacts: Jack and Jane Katenkamp 

Coordinating Couple

Area Served: USA

Established: 1981

Publication: The Inmate’s Marriage 

Encounter, $10.00.

Provides marriage enrichment programs in 

prison for incarcerated husbands and wives 

and their spouses.

Noble Correctional Institution

Telephone: (740) 732-5188

Address: 15708 State Route 78W

Caldwell, OH 43724

Contacts: Tim Buchanan

Unit Management Administrator

Jeff Wolfe 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: ODRC

Established: 1996

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals and gifts for children.

North Central 

Correctional Institution

Telephone: (740) 387-7040

Address: 670 Marion-Williamsport Road-E

Marion, OH 43301

Contacts: Brian P. Byorth

Unit Management Administrator

John D. Morgan 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Provides 1) Aunt Mary’s Story Book: Inmates 

read storybooks on audiocassettes which are then

sent to their children and/or grandchildren, and 

2) G.O.A.L. (Gaining Opportunity in Living

Skills) Program: teaches positive motivational

skills. Inmates take the class while their children

in Hamilton County participate in the same 

program. Several times the children visit for a 

portion of the program.

Ohio Reformatory for Women

Telephone: (937) 642-1065

Address: 1479 Collins Avenue 

Marysville, OH 43040

Contacts: Betsey Johnson

Program Coordinator

D. Timmerman-Cooper 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 1995

Provides Camp Adventure Mom and Me, 

Child Support Seminar, Family Day, Responsible

Family Life Skills, Strengthening Family Ties,

Parents Anonymous, ORW Nursery Program,

Mom and Kids Day, Camp Adventure, Aunt

Mary’s Storybook, Angel Tree, and 4-H Program.

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Telephone: (330) 743-0700

Address: 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Road 

Youngstown, OH 44505

E-mail: JeffreyRemmick@odrc.state.oh.us

Web site: www.drc.state.oh.us

Contacts: Jeff Remmick

Unit Management Administrator

Todd Ishee 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Community Connections

Established: 2000

Provides incarcerated fathers the opportunity to

read a storybook on tape. The tape along with 

the book is then sent to the child.

Ohio State University 

Extension: Jefferson County

Telephone: (740) 264-2212

Address: 135 Main Street, Suite A

Wintersville, OH 43953

Contact: Joseph Maiorano, Agent

Area Served: East Central Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio State University Extension

Established: 1999

Provides Fit 2-B FATHERS, a parent 

education program.

Orient Correctional Institution

(OCI)

Telephone: (614) 877-4367

Address: P.O. Box 511 

Columbus, OH 43216

Contacts: R. E. England

Unit Management Administrator

R. E. Beishtler 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Provides a parent education program.

Pickaway Correctional Institution

Telephone: (614) 877-4362

Address: P.O. Box 209 

Orient, OH 43146

E-mail: orc-noblej@ohio.gov

Web site: www.drc.state.oh.us

Contact: Jeffrey B. Noble, Agency Head

Unit Management Administrator

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Provides parent education, children’s center 

in visiting area, information and referrals.

Richland Correctional Institution

Telephone: (419) 526-2100 ext. 2042

Address: P.O. Box 8107 

Mansfield, OH 44901

Contacts: Sherry Carrell

Unit Management Administrator

Toni R. Brooks 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 2001

Provides parent education and special visiting

days for families.

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Ross Correctional Institution

Telephone: (740) 774-7050

Address: P.O. Box 7010 

Chillicothe, OH 45601

Contacts: Robbyn Ware, Executive

Administrative Assistant

Pat Hurley 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 2000

Provides a reading center for children and 

families in the visiting area.

Southeastern Correctional

Institution

Telephone: (740) 653-4324

Address: 5900 B.I.S. Road 

Lancaster, OH 43130

Contacts: Paula Duplessis

Unit Management Administrator

Robert L. Hurt 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Established: 1995

Provides parent education, special visiting days

for families, and gifts for children.

Southern Ohio 

Correctional Facility

Telephone: (740) 259-5544

Address: P.O. Box 45699 

Lucasville, OH 45699

Contacts: Dave Colley

Education Administrator

Harold Carter 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Ohio Department of 

Rehabilitation and Correction

Provides children’s center in visiting area and

marriage preparation and support.

Trumbull Correctional Institution

Telephone: (330) 898-0820

Address: P.O. Box 901 

Leavittsburg, OH 44430

Contacts: G. Dunn, Chaplain

Julias Wilson 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: NE Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Prison Fellowship

Established: 1999

Provides hospitality center, children’s center in

visiting area, parent education, information and

referrals, childcare, group activities for children,

gifts for children, religious ministry, family 

reunification support, and family therapy.

Wilmington College - 

Franklin Pre-Release Center

Telephone: (614) 445-8600 ext. 2218

Address: 1800 Harmon Avenue 

Columbus, OH 43031

Contacts: G. Tammy Riffe

Prenatal Coordinator

Judith Morris Ayers

Agency Head

College Administrator

Area Served: Ohio

Parent 

Organization: Wilmington College

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Established: 1989

Provides enhanced visiting, self-help support

group, information and referrals in a community

residential program.

Oklahoma

InnerChange Freedom Initiative

Telephone: (914) 747-2932

Address: 3807 G. H. South Peoria 

Tulsa, OK 74105

E-mail: ifi.hq@ifiprison.org

Web site: www.ifiprison.org

Contacts: Jack Cowley

Director of Operations

Jerry Wilger 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Prison Fellowship Ministries

Established: 1997

Provides 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week Christian

prison programs in several locations. The program provides transportation, parent education,

self-help support group, information and referrals,

case management, mentoring, group activities for 

children, gifts for children, religious ministry,

marriage preparation and support, family 

reunification support, family therapy, and public

education and advocacy.

Tulsa Parenting Partnership

Telephone: (918) 587-3888

Address: 1608 South Elwood 

Tulsa, OK 74119

Contact: Mae Ann Shepherd

Executive Director

Area Served: Tulsa

Parent 

Organization: Resonance

Established: 1997

Provides transportation, children’s center in 

visiting area, parent education, self-help support

group, information and referrals, case 

management, group activities for children, 

family reunification support, and family therapy.

Oregon

ADAPT

Telephone: (503) 988-3747

Address: 421 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 700 

Portland, OR 97204

E-mail: cathryn.a.heron@

co.multnomah.or.us

Contacts: Cathryn Heron

Corrections Counselor

Elyse Clawson, Agency Head 

Department Director

Area Served: Multnomah County

Parent 

Organization: Multnomah County 

Department of Community

Justice

Established: 1989

Provides transportation, information and referrals,

case management, gifts for children, and family

reunification support.

Children Made Visible, Inc.

Telephone: (503) 699-1388

Address: P.O. Box 716 

Gladstone, OR 97027

E-mail: ChildMadeVisible@aol.com

Contact: Mary Ann Colby 

Founder/Executive Director

Area Served: Oregon

Established: 1999

Provides self-help support group, information 

and referrals.

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Eastern Oregon 

Correctional Institution

Telephone: (541) 276-0700 ext. 524

Address: 2500 Westgate 

Pendleton, OR 97801

E-mail: jacker@bmcc.cc.or.us

Contacts: Jan Acker

Parenting Instructor

Jean Hill 

Agency Head/Superintendent

Area Served: Oregon

Established: 1998

Provides parent education.

Family Intervention 

Strategic Initiative

Telephone: (503) 988-3136 ext. 27396

Address: 421 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 700 

Portland, OR 97204

E-mail: robert.j.trachtenberg@

co.multnomah.or.us

Web site: ww.co.multnomah.or.us/dcj/

tsfamilyinterservices.html

Contacts: Robert Trachtenberg

Family Intervention Coordinator

Elyse Clawson, Agency Head 

Department Director

Area Served: Multnomah County

Parent 

Organization: Multnomah County 

Department of Community

Justice

Established: 2000

Provides information and referrals.

Juvenile Division - 

Multnomah County Department 

of Community Justice

Telephone: (503) 988-3460

Address: 1401 NE 68th Street 

Portland, OR 97213

E-mail: elsie.m.garland@

co.multnomah.or.us

Web site: www.multnomah.lib.or.us/

Contact: Elsie M. Garland 

Agency Head/Director

Juvenile Court CounselorProgram Coordinator

Area Served: Multnomah County

Parent 

Organization: Department of Community

Justice

Established: 1997

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information and referrals, childcare, family

reunification support, and family therapy for adult

parolees and their adolescent children.

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Pennsylvania

18th Street 

Development Corporation

Raising Others’ Children

Telephone: (215) 271-0052

Address: 1815 South 18th Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19145

Contacts: Sherra Dunn

Director of Family Services

Elizabeth Burns, Agency Head 

Executive Director of ESDC

Area Served: Point Breeze

Parent 

Organization: Point Breeze Area 

Agencies/Organizations

Established: 1989

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information and referrals, case 

management, and mentoring for caregivers 

raising children not their own.

Bethesda Family 

Services Foundation

Telephone: (570) 568-2373

Address: P.O. Box 210 

West Milton, PA 17886

E-mail: staff@bfsf.org

Web site: www.bfsf.org

Contacts: Jim Dressler

Parenting Program Coordinator

Dominic Herbst 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Established: 1995

Publications: Foster Care Program 

Description, $10.00; 

Family Systems Model, $10.00; 

Parenting Program Overview, 

$10.00; 

Bad Dads (video), $15.00.

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information and referrals, religious 

ministry (if requested), family reunification 

support, and family therapy.

Capital Area Head StartWoodside Center

Telephone: (717) 558-7598

Address: 451 Mall Road 

Harrisburg, PA 17111

Contacts: Diana Ciucci, Center Director

Alison Rosen 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Dauphin County

Established: 1994

Provides parent education and case management.

Family Services 

of Western Pennsylvania

Families Outside

Telephone: (412) 661-1670

Address: 6401 Penn Avenue, 2nd Floor 

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Contacts: Ned Pfundt, Coordinator

Donald Goughler 

Agency Head/CEO

Area Served: Southwest Pennsylvania

Established: 1980

Provides low-cost transportation, self-help 

support group, re-entry assistance, employment

assistance, information, referrals, coping skills,

and family videos.

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National Clearinghouse for the

Defense of Battered Women

Telephone: (215) 351-0010

Address: 125 South 9th Street, Suite 302 

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Contact: Sue Osthoff 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1987

Provides information, referrals, technical 

assistance, public education and advocacy, and

legal information and resources.

ParentWISE, Inc.

Telephone: (724) 837-5410

Address: 409 Coulter Avenue, Suite 2 

Greensburg, PA 15601

E-mail: pwise@a1usa.net

Contact: Terri Katzman 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Westmoreland County

Parent 

Organization: Parents Anonymous

Established: 1976

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information and referrals.

Pennsylvania Department 

of Corrections

Telephone: (717) 730-2715

Address: 2520 Lisburn Road 

Camp Hill, PA 17001-0598

E-mail: jabell@state.pa.us

Contacts: James H. Bell, Pardons Case 

Specialist/Family Services

Jeffrey A. Beard, Ph.D.

Agency Head/Secretary

Area Served: Pennsylvania

Established: 1996

Provides transportation, children’s centers in 

visiting areas, parent education, self-help support

groups, gifts for children, family reunification

support, and family therapy at various

Pennsylvania facilities.

Prisoner Visitation and Support

Telephone: (215) 241-7117

Address: 1501 Cherry Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19102

E-mail: pvs@afsc.org

Web site: www.prisonervisitation.org

Contact: Eric Carson 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1968

Provides volunteer visitors to prisoners who 

get no, or few, other visitors.

SCI-Muncy

Telephone: (570) 546-3171

Address: P.O. Box 180 

Muncy, PA 17754

Contacts: Melinda A. Smith

Parenting Program Director

Donald L. Kelchner 

Agency Head/Superintendent

Area Served: Pennsylvania

Parent 

Organization: Pennsylvania Department 

of Corrections

Established: 1986

Publication: Parenting Program.

Provides transportation, children’s center in 

visiting area, enhanced visiting, parent education,

self-help support group, information, referrals,

gifts for children, family reunification support,

and public education and advocacy.

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Tough Love International

Telephone: (800) 333-1069

Address: P.O. Box 1069 

Doylestown, PA 18901

E-mail: service@toughlove.org

Web site: www.toughlove.org

Contacts: Patricia Lacy, Executive Director

David York 

Agency Head/Founder

Area Served: USA and International

Provides self-help support group for parents of

out-of-control children and young adults.

South Dakota

Family Connection

Telephone: (605) 357-0777

Address: 303 North Minnesota Avenue 

Sioux Falls, SD 57104

Contact: LaVonne Fosness 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: South Dakota

Established: 1996

Provides overnight lodging, hospitality center,

self-help support group, information, referrals,

childcare, mentoring, group activities and gifts for

children, and religious ministry.

Tennessee

Bethel Bible Village

Telephone: (423) 842-5757

Address: P.O. Box 729 

Hixson, TN 37343

E-mail: gbehler@cdc.net

Web site: www.bbv.org

Contacts: Gary D. Behler

Director of Program Services

Bob McFarland 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1954

Provides a Christian group home for children

whose lives have been shattered by crime.

Services include transportation, parent education,

information, referrals, case management, group

activities, religious ministry, family reunification

support, public education and advocacy.

Reconciliation Ministries, Inc.

Telephone: (615) 292-6371

Address: 702 51st Avenue North 

Nashville, TN 37209

E-mail: reconciliation-@hotmail.com

Contact: Alice Arceneaux 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Tennessee

Established: 1984

Provides overnight lodging, hospitality center,

children’s center in visiting area, self-help support

group, information, referrals, gifts for children,

public education and advocacy.

Tennessee Department 

of Correction

Telephone: (615) 741-1000

Address: 320 6th Avenue North 

Nashville, TN 37243

Contacts: Jim Rose, Assistant 

Commissioner-Operations

Donal Campbell 

Agency Head/Commissioner

Area Served: Tennessee

Provides children’s center in visiting areas, gifts

for children, and marriage preparation and support at various Tennessee facilities.

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Texas

Association of X-Offenders (TAX)

Telephone: (979) 775-9200

Address: 219 East Wm. Joel 

Bryan, TX 77803

E-mail: tax@xoffenders.org

Web site: www.xoffenders.org

Contacts: Dub Pearson, Executive Director

Ron Ailor, Agency Head

Chairman of the Board

Area Served: USA

Established: 1995

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, mentoring, and religious ministry.

Bexar County 

Detentions Ministries

Telephone: (210) 271-3927

Address: 1018 East Grayson Street 

San Antonio, TX 78242

E-mail: mcontrerasbcdm@juno.com

Contacts: Margaret Contreras

Outreach Coordinator

Shirley Daniels 

Agency Head/Outreach Director

Area Served: Bexar County

Established: 1995

Provides parent education, information and 

referrals, case management, gifts for children, 

crisis intervention, support groups, employment

assistance and religious ministry.

E.Q.U.I.P. 

Parent Education Program

Telephone: (254) 865-8901 ext. 362

Address: 1500 State School Road 

Gatesville, TX 76598-2996

E-mail: bamooney7@msn.com

Contacts: Anne Mooney

Program Director

Mike Whitecotton 

Agency Head/Administrator

Area Served: Gatesville

Parent 

Organization: Buckner Children and 

Family Services

Established: 1996

Provides children’s center in visiting area, parent

education, self-help support group, information

and referrals, family reunification support, family

therapy, and public education and advocacy.

Eunice Chambless 

Hospitality House

Telephone: (915) 548-2180

Address: 13378 F. M. 3522 

Abilene, TX 79601

Contacts: Billy and Barbara Wilson, 

Directors

Truman Turk, Agency Head 

Director of Missions

Area Served: Abilene

Parent 

Organization: Abilene Baptist Association

Established: 1998

Provides overnight lodging, hospitality center,

children’s center in visiting area, self-help support

group, and religious ministry.

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Hospitality House

Telephone: (915) 263-5752

Address: 1202 West 4th Street 

Big Spring, TX 79720

Contacts: Joe or Wanda Bernier, Directors

David Kimberly, Agency Head

Area Served: Big Spring

Parent 

Organization: Big Spring Baptist Association

Established: 1994

Provides overnight lodging, gifts for children 

at Christmas, and religious ministry.

Hospitality House

Telephone: (936) 291-6196

Address: 912 10th Street 

Huntsville, TX 77320

E-mail: hosphse@TruCom.net

Web site: www.thehospitalityhouse.

homestead.com

Contact: Bob Norris 

Agency Head/Chaplain-Director

Area Served: Huntsville

Parent 

Organization: Texas Baptist Prisoner Family 

Ministry Foundation

Provides overnight lodging, information and 

referrals, gifts for children, religious ministry,

technical assistance, and family reunification 

support.

LOOPS, Inc. 

Loved Ones of Prisoners

Telephone: (915) 580-5667

Address: P.O. Box 14953 

Odessa, TX 79768

E-mail: leland@loopsministries.com

Web site: www.loopsministries.com

Contacts: Leland Maples

Executive Director

Charley Jones 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: West Texas

Established: 1992

Provides information and referrals, mentoring,

gifts for children, and religious ministry.

MATCH/PATCH Program

Telephone: (210) 270-6330

Address: 200 North Comal 

San Antonio, TX 78207

E-mail: match.patch@juno.com

Contacts: Aida Camero

Program Coordinator

Rick Walsh, Agency Head 

Human Services Supervisor

Area Served: Bexar County

Parent 

Organization: Bexar County Adult 

Detention Center

Established: 1984

Provides parent education, support groups, 

information, referrals, enhanced visiting, parent

education, reunification support, and gifts for 

children.

National Incarcerated 

Muslim Network (NIMN)

Address: 59 Darrington Road 

Rosharon, TX 77583

Contact: Maurice Taylor 476837

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1991

Provides information, referrals, religious ministry,

and legal services and information.

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OPEN, Inc. 

Offender Preparation and Education

Network, Inc.

Telephone: (972) 271-1971

Address: P.O. Box 472223 

Garland, TX 75047-2223

E-mail: info@openinc.org

Web site: www.openinc.org

Contacts: Katherine Greene

Assistant Director

Ned Rollo 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1979

Publications: Life without a Crutch, $5.95; 

A Map Through the Maze, $8.95; 

99 Days & A Get Up, $3.95; 

Man, I Need a Job!, $5.95; 

Necesito Empleo!, $5.95; 

contact OPEN, Inc. for a 

complete listing.

Provides educational materials and programs for 

use by offenders and families to survive incarceration and make a successful transition back to the

community, and for use by correctional agencies

to prepare offenders for re-entry.

Out, But Not Free, Inc.

Telephone: (214) 381-0099

Address: P.O. Box 671181 

Dallas, TX 75367

E-mail: rogerwds@swbell.net

Contact: Roger L. Woods 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Dallas

Established: 1994

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, case management,

mentoring, gifts for children, religious ministry,

marriage preparation and support, and family

reunification support.

Parents and Children 

Together, Inc.

Telephone: (817) 524-7776

Address: 2836 Hemphill Street 

Fort Worth, TX 76110

E-mail: dawna@azmail.net

Contact: Donna Bailey 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Texas, South Carolina, Georgia

Established: 1984

Provides transportation, overnight lodging, 

hospitality center, children’s center in visiting

area, parent education, self-help support group,

information and referrals, case management, 

religious ministry, and family reunification 

support.

Regional Criminal Justice

Ministry Center of South Texas

Telephone: (361) 358-9699

Address: P.O. Box 4056 

Beeville, TX 78104

E-mail: vcjmcst@awesome.net

Contact: Gene Woodard, President

Area Served: Beeville

Established: 1996

Provides hospitality center and religious ministry.

Regional Family Resource

Center

Telephone: (940) 567-3894

Address: 527 West Belknap 

Jacksboro, TX 76458

Contacts: Larry Shields

Board President

Raymond Franklin 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Jacksboro and surrounding 

counties

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Established: 1997

Provides overnight lodging, hospitality center,

self-help support group, information, referrals,

gifts for children, religious ministry, and family

reunification support.

Restorative Justice Ministry

Network of North America

Telephone: (936) 291-2156

Address: 1232 Avenue J 

Huntsville, TX 77340

E-mail: esolomon@txucom.net

Web site: www.rjmn.net

Contact: Emmet Solomon 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1993

Provides information and referrals to a national

network of churches and organizations.

San Antonio Fighting Back 

of United Way

Telephone: (210) 271-7232

Address: 2803 East Commerce 

San Antonio, TX 78203

Contact: Beverly Watts Davis 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: San Antonio

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, case management,

childcare, mentoring, group activi ties such as

scouting or camping, gifts for children, marriage

preparation and support, family reunification 

support, and public education and advocacy.

Shepherds Inn

Telephone: (409) 898-8797 ext. 21

Address: 2750 I-10 East 

Beaumont, TX 77703

E-mail: dion@gtba.org

Web site: www.gtba.org

Contact: Dion Ainsworth 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Southeast Texas

Parent 

Organization: Golden Triangle Baptist 

Association

Established: 1995

Provides transportation and overnight lodging.

Skyview-Hodge 

Family Visitors Center

Telephone: (903) 683-8283

Address: Route 5, Box 49594 

Rusk, TX 75785

Contact: Kay Martin, Director

Area Served: East Texas

Parent 

Organization: Cherokee Southern Baptist 

Association

Established: 2000

Provides hospitality center and religious ministry.

Volunteers of America of Texas

Telephone: (817) 649-7491

Address: P.O. Box 200276 

Arlington, TX 76006

E-mail: smikus@voatx.org

Web site: www.voatx.org

Contact: Shirley Mikus, Director SAC

Agency Head: Dave North, President/CEO

Area Served: Texas

Parent 

Organization: Volunteers of America

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, family reunification support, public 

education, and advocacy.

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Woman At The Well House

Ministries, Inc.

Telephone: (210) 472-2787

Address: 221 Post Avenue 

San Antonio, TX 78215

Contact: Priscilla Murguia

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Texas

Established: 1996

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, case management, religious ministry, 

and community residential program for women

returning from incarceration.

Worldwide Voice In 

the Wilderness

Telephone: (972) 234-6009

Address: 1221 Abrams Road, Suite 250 

Richardson, TX 75081

E-mail: moffitt2@juno.com

Contact: Johnny Moffitt 

Agency Head/President/Director

Area Served: Dallas

Established: 1978

Provides self-help support group, marriage 

seminar, information, referrals, mentoring, 

religious ministry, and family counseling.

Utah

Draper Site Complex

Telephone: (801) 576-7826

Address: P.O. Box 250 

Draper, UT 84020

E-mail: Lbrasher@udc.state.ut.us

Contacts: Lynn Brasher

Correctional Administrator I

Scott Carver 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Wasatch Front

Parent 

Organization: Utah Department of Corrections

Provides parent education for male and female

inmates at Draper Site Complex.

Vermont

Family Tree Access Center, Inc.

Telephone: (802) 775-0068

Address: 1 Scale Avenue, Suite 62 

Rutland, VT 05701

E-mail: lcaseyftac@aol.com

Contact: Laurie A. Casey, Agency Head 

Executive Director/CEO

Area Served: New England

Parent 

Organization: Family Tree Access Center, Inc.

Established: 2000

Provides transportation, enhanced visiting, 

parent education, self-help support group, 

information, referrals, case management, gifts 

for children, marriage preparation and support,

family reunification support, public education,

advocacy, legal services, and information.

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont

Telephone: (802) 229-5724

Address: P.O. Box 829 

Montpelier, VT 05601

E-mail: pcavt@together.net

Web site: www.pcavt.org

Contact: Linda Johnson 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Vermont

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, and referrals.

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Vermont Department of

Corrections

Telephone: (802) 241-2286

Address: 103 South Main Street 

Waterbury, VT 05401

E-mail: jille@doc.state.vt.us

Contacts: Jill Evans

Director of Women Offender 

and Family Services

John F. Gorczyk 

Agency Head/Commissioner

Area Served: Vermont

Parent 

Organization: Prevent Child Abuse Vermont

Established: 1996

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, group activities 

for children, family reunification support, family

therapy, public education, and advocacy.

Virginia

All God’s Children Camp

Telephone: (804) 359-9451

Address: United Methodist Building, 

P.O. Box 11367 

Richmond, VA 23230

E-mail: allgodschildrencamp@mail.com

Web site: www.vaumc.org

Contacts: Ann Davis, Director

Carole Vaughan, Agency Head 

Director of Discipleship and 

Children’s Ministries

Area Served: Virginia

Parent 

Organization: United Methodist ChurchVirginia

Established: 1999

Provides mentoring, camping, gifts for children,

and religious ministry.

Assisting Families of Inmates,

Inc.

(formerly Prison Family Support)

Telephone: (804) 643-2401

Address: 1 North Fifth Street, Suite 400 

Richmond, VA 23219

E-mail: staff@pfss.org

Web site: www.pfss.com

Contact: Fran Bolin 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Richmond

Established: 1978

Provides transportation to 21 prisons, trained 

volunteers to chaperone children visiting their

mothers, school-based counseling program for

children, parent education, information, referrals,

and family reunification support.

Family and Corrections Network

Telephone: (804) 589-3036

Address: 32 Oak Grove Road 

Palmyra, VA 22963

E-mail: fcn@fcnetwork.org

Web site: www.fcnetwork.org

Contacts: Jim Mustin

Executive Director

Ed Hostetter 

Agency Head/Board Chair

Area Served: USA

Established: 1983

Publication: FCN REPORT

Available by subscription.

Provides information, technical assistance and

training on families of offenders, children of 

prisoners, parenting programs for prisoners,

prison visiting, and the impact of the justice system on families. FCN’s web site has over 100

articles, an e-mail list, a directory of programs

and links to offender family web sites.

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Hope Aglow Ministries, Inc.

Telephone: (804) 258-2248

Address: P.O. Box 10157 

Lynchburg, VA 24506

Contact: Garry Sims 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Central Virginia

Provides religious ministry and family 

reunification support.

Memorial Child Guidance Clinic

Telephone: (804) 282-5993

Address: 5001 West Broad Street, Ste. 140

Richmond, VA 23230

Contact: Karen Sweeney

Prevention Services Supervisor

Sharon Veatch, Agency Head 

Prevention Services Director

Area Served: Richmond

Parent 

Organization: CAPS

Established: 1996

Provides parent education to incarcerated

mothers.

Navigators

Telephone: (757) 437-5754

Address: 297 Independence Blvd, #129 

Virginia Beach, VA 23462

E-mail: dkade@city.virginia-beach.va.us

Contacts: Debbie Kade, LCSW

Prevention Specialist

Dr. Terry Jenkins, Agency Head 

Executive Director, CSB

Area Served: Virginia Beach

Parent 

Organization: Virginia Beach Community 

Services Board Substance Abuse 

Prevention

Established: 2000

Provides school-based program for children with

an incarcerated family member and their families.

Services include information, referrals, family

reunification support, public education, and 

advocacy.

OAR of Fairfax Co., Inc.

Telephone: (703) 246-3033

Address: 10640 Page Avenue, Suite 250 

Fairfax, VA 22030-4000

E-mail: oarfx@erols.com

Contacts: Jill Clark, Family Counselor

Senior Case Manager

Carla Taylor 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Fairfax County

Established: 1971

Publication: Handling the Crisis

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, financial assistance, employment 

assistance, case management, mentoring, gifts for

children, and family reunification support.

Prevent Child Abuse Virginia

Telephone: (804) 359-6166

Address: 4901 Fitzhugh Avenue, Suite 200 

Richmond, VA 23230

E-mail: mail@pcav.org

Web site: www.preventchildabuseva.org

Contacts: Cynthia A. Gricus

Public Relations Director

Stephen Jurentkuff 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Virginia

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Parent 

Organization: Prevent Child Abuse America

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, public education,

and advocacy.

Virginia Cares 

Transition Program

Telephone: (703) 838-0919

Address: 2525 Mt. Vernon Ave., Unit - 9 

Alexandria, VA 22301

E-mail: jeg510@northern.dss.state.va.us

Contacts: James E. Green, Sr.

Community Services Specialist

Nelson Smith 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: Alexandria

Parent 

Organization: Virginia Cares Inc.

Established: 1979

Provides transportation, self-help support group,

gifts for children, public education, and advocacy.

Virginia CURE (Hampton Roads)

Telephone: (757) 483-1621

Address: P.O. Box 9033 

Chesapeake, VA 23321

E-mail: macj@juno.com

Contacts: Myrna Carlson

Facilitator for Hampton Roads

Jean Auldridge, Agency Head 

Director, Virginia CURE

Area Served: Hampton Roads, Tidewater

Parent 

Organization: CURE

Established: 2001

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, religious ministry, marriage preparation

and support, family reunification support, public

education, and advocacy.

Washington

Matthew House

Telephone: (360) 794-8720

Address: P.O. Box 201 

Monroe, WA 98272

Contact: Rosaleen Wilcox

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Washington

Parent 

Organization: Simon of Cyrene, Inc.

Established: 1980

Provides transportation, overnight lodging, 

hospitality center, children’s center in visiting

area, enhanced visiting, parent education, selfhelp support group, information, referrals, case 

management, childcare, group activities and gifts

for children, family reunification support, public

education, and advocacy.

Puget Sound EHSEarly Head Start

Telephone: (283) 926-6815 ext. 5031

Address: 3601 20th Street East 

Fife, WA 98424

E-mail: wjaus@psesd.wedent.edu

Contacts: Wendy Jaus

Program Manager

Dr. Terry Lindquist 

Agency Head/Superintendent

Area Served: Washington

Parent 

Organization: Early Head Start

Established: 1999

Provides overnight visits, parent education, selfhelp support group, information, referrals, case

management, childcare, group activities and gifts

for children, religious ministry, nursery, technical

assistance, family reunification support, family 

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therapy, public education, advocacy, legal 

services, and information for inmates at

Washington Corrections Center for Women.

Wisconsin

Columbia Correctional

Institution

Telephone: (608) 742-9100

Address: 2925 Columbia Drive 

Portage, WI 53901

Contacts: Mardell Petras

Program Coordinator

Phil Kingston 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Established: 2000

Provides televisiting. Visitors come to the 

institution for an audio-visual visit with

Wisconsin inmates located in other states.

Family Connections

Telephone: (608) 226-9660

Address: P.O. Box 6612 

Madison, WI 53716

E-mail: slott@counseling-madison.com

Contact: Sandy Lott 

Agency Head/Program Director

Area Served: Central Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Madison Area Urban Ministry

Established: 1999

Provides transportation, self-help support group,

information, referrals, technical assistance, public

education, and advocacy.

Fox Lake Correctional Institute

Telephone: (920) 928-3151

Address: P.O. Box 147 

Fox Lake, WI 53933

Web site: www.wi-doc.com

Contacts: Rev. Glenn Lashway

Chaplain

Thomas Borgen 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Southcentral Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Provides monthly marriage seminars for inmates

and their wives.

Green Bay 

Correctional Institution

Telephone: (920) 432-4877

Address: P.O. Box 19033 

Green Bay, WI 54307

Web site: www.wi-doc.com

Contacts: Michael Baenen

Deputy Warden

Dan Bertrand 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Provides transportation, children’s center in 

visiting area, and parent education.

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Kettle Moraine 

Correctional Institution

Telephone: (920) 526-3244

Address: P.O. Box 31 

Plymouth, WI 53073-0031

E-mail: Michael.Thurmer@

doc.state.wi.us

Contacts: Barb Earle

Treatment Director

Jon Litscher 

Agency Head/Secretary

Area Served: Plymouth

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Established: 1990

Provides transportation, children’s center 

in visiting area, extended and special visits, 

parent education, self-help support group, case

management, gifts for children, religious 

ministry, marriage preparation and support, 

public education, advocacy, legal services, 

and information.

Oakhill Correctional Institution

Telephone: (608) 835-3101

Address: P.O. Box 938 

Oregon, WI 53575-0938

Web site: www.wi-doc.com

Contacts: Ilene Lawson

Social Worker

Ron Malone 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Provides parent education.

Oshkosh Correctional Institution

Telephone: (920) 231-4010

Address: P.O. Box 3530 

Oshkosh, WI 54903-3530

Web site: www.wi-doc.com

Contacts: Louie Del Frate

Program Director

Judy Smith 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Provides transportation, children’s center in 

visiting area, parent education, self-help support

group, gifts for children, marriage preparation and

support, legal services, information, and greeting

card distribution.

Racine Correctional Institution

Telephone: (262) 886-3214

Address: P.O. Box 900 

Sturtevant, WI 53177

Web site: www.wi-doc.com

Contacts: Dr. Chris Ikaniah

Chaplain

Christie Schwartz 

Agency Head/Program Director

Area Served: Southeastern Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Established: 1997

Provides televisiting. Visitors come to the 

institution for an audio-visual visit with 

Wisconsin inmates located in other states. 

Also provides marriage seminars, and Father’s

Fair, where inmates visit booths staffed by over 

20 community agencies.

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Redgranite 

Correctional Institution

Telephone: (920) 566-2600

Address: P.O. Box 900 

Redgranite, WI 54970

Contacts: Mary Kay Armaloski

Program Director

Jeffrey Endicott 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Established: 2001

Provides children’s center in visiting area.

St. Rose Residence Family

Reunification Program

Telephone: (414) 466-9450

Address: 3801 North 88th Street 

Milwaukee, WI 53222

Contacts: Caitlen Daniels, M.S.W.

Program Director

Kenneth Czoplewski 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: Milwaukee County

Parent 

Organization: St. Rose Residence Inc.

Established: 2000

Provides family reunification services for 

incarcerated mothers, their children and 

caregivers. Services include transportation,

enhanced visiting, parent education, self-help 

support group, information, referrals, case 

management, family reunification support, 

family and individual therapy, public education,

and advocacy.

Supermax Correctional

Institution (SMCI)

Telephone: (608) 375-5656

Address: P.O. Box 1000 

Boscobel, WI 53805

E-mail: vicki.sharpe@doc.state.wi.us

Web site: www.wi-doc.com

Contacts: Vicki Sharpe

Program Director

Gerald Berge 

Agency Head/Warden

Area Served: Southwest Wisconsin

Parent 

Organization: Wisconsin Department of 

Corrections

Provides gifts for children.

Wisconsin Department 

of Corrections

Telephone: (608) 267-1252

Address: 149 East Wilson Street 

Madison, WI 53707

E-mail: LauraWood@doc.state.wi.us

Web site: www.wi-doc.com

Contacts: Laura L. Wood

Policy Advisor

Jon Litscher 

Agency Head/Secretary

Area Served: Wisconsin

Established: 1985

Provides transportation for prison visits.

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Aleph Institute

Telephone: (305) 864-5553

Address: 9540 Collins Avenue 

Surfside, FL 33154

E-mail: admin@aleph-institute.org

Web site: www.aleph-institute.org

Contacts: Isaac M. Jaroslawicz

Executive Director

Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar 

Agency Head/Chairman

Area Served: USA

Established: 1981

Publication: Institutional Handbook of Jewish 

Practice and Procedure

Provides Jewish religious education, counseling,

emergency assistance, and referrals for Jewish

prisoners and their families.

Angel Tree/Angel Tree Camping

Telephone: (703) 478-0100

Address: P.O. Box 17500 

Washington, DC 20041

E-mail: angeltree@pfm.org

Web site: www.angeltree.org

Contacts: Carolyn Meraw

National Director of Angel Tree

Tom Pratt 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Prison Fellowship Ministries

Established: 1982

Provides religious ministry and support to the

children and families of prisoners by distributing 

holiday gifts to children of prisoners and 

providing a children’s camping program.

Association of X-Offenders (TAX)

Telephone: (979) 775-9200

Address: 219 East Wm. Joel 

Bryan, TX 77803

E-mail: tax@xoffenders.org

Web site: www.xoffenders.org

Contacts: Dub Pearson

Executive Director

Ron Ailor, Agency Head 

Chairman of the Board

Area Served: USA

Established: 1995

Provides self-help support group, information,

referrals, mentoring, and religious ministry.

Bethel Bible Village

Telephone: (423) 842-5757

Address: P.O. Box 729 

Hixson, TN 37343

E-mail: gbehler@cdc.net

Web site: www.bbv.org

Contacts: Gary D. Behler 

Director of Program Services

Bob McFarland 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1954

Provides a Christian group home for children

whose lives have been shattered by crime.

Services include transportation, parent education,

information, referrals, case management, group

activities, religious ministry, family reunification

support, public education, and advocacy.

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Programs Offering National Services
Bethesda Family 

Services Foundation

Telephone: (570) 568-2373

Address: P.O. Box 210 

West Milton, PA 17886

E-mail: staff@bfsf.org

Web site: www.bfsf.org

Contacts: Jim Dressler

Parenting Program Coordinator

Dominic Herbst 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Established: 1995

Publications: Foster Care Program 

Description, $10.00; 

Family Systems Model, $10.00; 

Parenting Program 

Overview, $10.00; 

Bad Dads (video), $15.00.

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information and referrals, religious 

ministry (if requested), family reunification 

support, and family therapy.

Center for Behavioral Health,

Justice and Public Policy

Telephone: (410) 724-5007

Address: 8490 Dorsey Run Road 

Jessup, MD 20794

Web site: www.umaryland.edu/

behavioraljustice

Contacts: Yu Ling Ham, Ph.D.

Program Manager

Fred Osher, M.D. 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: University of Maryland

Established: 1999

Provides research, training program evaluation,

policy recommendations for persons with mental

illness/addictive disorders in the justice system.

Center for Children of

Incarcerated Parents

Telephone: (626) 449-8796

Address: P.O. Box 41-286 

Eagle Rock, CA 90041

E-mail: ccipdj@aol.com

Web site: www.e-ccip.org

Contact: Denise Johnston 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1989

Publications: Provides a clearinghouse for 

publications and audiovisuals 

to prisoners (free) and others 

(at cost). Contact Center for list.

Provides parent education, self-help support

groups, information, referrals, mentoring, family

reunification support, family therapy, public 

education, legal assistance and advocacy. 

Provides technical assistance, training, policy

development and research services in a variety 

of areas related to children of prisoners.

Child Welfare League 

of America (CWLA)

Telephone: (202) 942-0270

Address: 440 First Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

E-mail: cseymour@cwla.org

Web site: www.cwla.org

Contacts: Cynthia Seymour

General Counsel

Shay Bilchek 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

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Programs Offering National Services
Publications: Working with Children and 

Families Separated by 

Incarceration - A Handbook for

Child Welfare Agencies, $18.95; 

Parents in Prison: Children in 

Crisis; State Agency Survey on 

Children with Incarcerated 

Parents; Children with 

Incarcerated Parents: A Fact 

Sheet.

Provides information and referrals, technical 

assistance to child welfare agencies and public

information and advocacy.

CURE 

Citizens United for Rehabilitation 

of Errants

Telephone: (202) 789-2126

Address: P.O. Box 2310 

Washington, DC 20013

Web site: www.curenational.org

Contact: Charles Sullivan 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1972

Provides advocacy to bring about prison reform

including equitable rates for inmate phone calls.

Provides information on reform and rehabilitation

to offenders and their families. For a list of

CURE’s state chapters and affiliates, see the

CURE web site at www.curenational.org.

Encouraging Words, Inc.

Telephone: (614) 367-0436

Address: P.O. Box 9249 

Columbus, OH 43209

E-mail: edithholmes@msn.com

Contact: Marie Green 

Agency Head/Founder/CEO

Area Served: USA

Established: 1991

Provides training and technical assistance in

inmate parent education and family counseling.

Fathers Behind Bars, Inc.

Telephone: (616) 684-5715

Address: 525 Superior Street 

Niles, MI 49120

E-mail: fathersbehindbars2@msn.com

Contacts: Marilyn I. Hamilton

Agent and Treasurer

Arthur L. Hamilton, Jr.

Agency Head/President and 

Founder

Area Served: USA and Canada

Parent 

Organization: Fathers Behind Bars, Inc.

Established: 1994

Provides publications and technical assistance 

on self-help support groups for incarcerated

fathers.

Families Against Mandatory

Minimums (FAMM)

Telephone: (202) 822-6700

Address: 1612 K Street, NW, Suite 1400 

Washington, DC 20006

E-mail: famm@famm.org

Web site: www.famm.org

Contacts: Tom Burkert

Office Manager

Julie Stewart 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Established: 1991

Provides advocacy for sentencing reform.

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Family and Corrections Network

Telephone: (804) 589-3036

Address: 32 Oak Grove Road 

Palmyra, VA 22963

E-mail: fcn@fcnetwork.org

Web site: www.fcnetwork.org

Contacts: Jim Mustin

Executive Director

Ed Hostetter 

Agency Head/Board Chair

Area Served: USA

Established: 1983

Publication: FCN REPORT

Available by subscription.

Provides information, technical assistance and

training on families of offenders, children of 

prisoners, parenting programs for prisoners, 

prison visiting, and the impact of the justice 

system on families. FCN’s web site has over 

100 articles, an e-mail list, a directory of 

programs and links to offender family web sites.

Family Justice, Inc.

Telephone: (212) 982-2335

Address: 272 East Third Street 

New York, NY 10009

E-mail: cshapiro@familyjusticeinc.org,

Web site: www.familyjusticeinc.org

Contact: Carol Shapiro 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1996

Provides training and technical assistance in 

family case management, a model that identifies

and mobilizes family and community support for

the treatment of drug addiction and other criminal

justice related problems. The model is based on

La Bodega de la Familia, a storefront program in

New York City.

Girls and Boys Town

Telephone: (402) 498-1072

Address: 14100 Crawford Street 

Boys Town, NE 68010

E-mail: whitet@boystown.org

Web site: www.boystown.org

Contacts: Tiffany White-Welchen

Parenting Manager

Bobbie O’Connor 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Common Sense Parenting

Established: 1998

Publication: Common Sense Parenting 

From a Distance 

Provides a parent education curriculum for 

parents with limited access to their children

including prisoners.

InnerChange Freedom Initiative

Telephone: (914) 747-2932

Address: 3807 G. H. South Peoria 

Tulsa, OK 74105

E-mail: ifi.hq@ifiprison.org

Web site: www.ifiprison.org

Contacts: Jack Cowley

Director of Operations

Jerry Wilger 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Prison Fellowship Ministries

Established: 1997

Provides 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week Christian

prison programs in several locations. The program provides transportation, parent education,

self-help support group, information and referrals,

case management, mentoring, group activities for 

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children, gifts for children, religious ministry,

marriage preparation and support, family 

reunification support, family therapy, public 

education and advocacy.

Internet Friends Outside

Telephone: (408) 238-6091

Address: 2533 Glen Dundee Way 

San Jose, CA 95148

E-mail: lbolden@aol.com

Web site: www.reentry.org

Contact: Jan L. Boldon 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1997

Publication: Bibles

Provides an online inmate/family support 

group that sends cards and letters to inmates.

Kairos Outside

Telephone: (407) 629-4948

Address: 140 North Orlando Avenue, #180 

Winter Park, FL 32789

E-mail: kairosjo@aol.com

Web site: www.kairosprisonministry.org

Contacts: Jo Chapman

Coordinator, Women’s Ministries

Ike Griffin 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA and International

Parent 

Organization: Kairos, Inc.

Established: 1992

Provides mentoring, religious ministry, family

reunification support and weekend retreats for

female adults significant to the incarcerated.

Long Distance Dads

Telephone: (301) 948-0599

Address: 101 Lake Forest Boulevard

Suite 360 

Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Web site: www.fatherhood.org

Contacts: Randell Turner, Ph.D.

Vice President

Dr. Wade Horn 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA and International

Parent 

Organization: National Fatherhood Initiative

Established: 1996

Publication: Curriculum manual

Provides curriculum, training and technical 

assistance for a parent education program for

incarcerated fathers used in over 90 correctional

facilities in the USA, Canada, and Great Britain.

Message of Love

Telephone: (301) 340-1146

Address: P.O. Box 65137 

Washington, DC 20035-5137

E-mail: info@aleibar.com

Web site: www.messageoflove.com

Contact: Michele Aleibar 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: A Message of Love

Established: 2001

Provides subscription service that sends monthly

inspirational greeting cards to prisoners on behalf

of family members.

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National Clearinghouse for the

Defense of Battered Women

Telephone: (215) 351-0010

Address: 125 South 9th Street, Suite 302 

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Contact: Sue Osthoff 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1987

Provides information, referrals, technical 

assistance, public education and advocacy, 

and legal information and resources.

National Incarcerated Muslim

Network (NIMN)

Address: 59 Darrington Road 

Rosharon, TX 77583

Contact: Maurice Taylor 476837 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1991

Provides information, referrals, religious ministry,

and legal services and information.

National Marriage Encounter

Prison Ministry, Inc.

Telephone: (513) 385-0222

Address: P.O. Box 53583 

Cincinnati, OH 45253

Contact: Jack and Jane Katenkamp

Coordinating Couple

Area Served: USA

Established: 1981

Publication: The Inmate’s Marriage 

Encounter, $10.00.

Provides marriage enrichment programs in prison

for incarcerated husbands and wives and their

spouses.

National Trust for the

Development of 

African-American Men

Telephone: (301) 887-0100

Address: 6811 Kenilworth Avenue

Suite 501 

Riverdale, MD 20737

E-mail: mendezjr@msn.com

Web site: www.keepthetrust.org

Contact: Garry A. Mendez, Jr. 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1989

Provides technical assistance for a men’s parent

education and self-help support program based 

on African-American values.

OPEN, Inc. - 

Offender Preparation and

Education Network, Inc.

Telephone: (972) 271-1971

Address: P.O. Box 472223 

Garland, TX 75047-2223

E-mail: info@openinc.org

Web site: www.openinc.org

Contacts: Katherine Greene

Assistant Director

Ned Rollo 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1979

Publications: Life without a Crutch, $5.95; 

A Map Through the Maze, $8.95; 

99 Days & A Get Up, $3.95; 

Man, I Need a Job!, $5.95; 

Necesito Empleo!, $5.95; 

contact OPEN, Inc. for a 

complete listing.

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Programs Offering National Services
Provides educational materials and programs 

for use by offenders and families to survive 

incarceration and make a successful transition

back to the community, and for use by correctional agencies to prepare offenders for re-entry.

Our Place, DC

Telephone: (202) 548-2400

Address: 1236 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE 

Washington, DC 20003

Contact: Susan Galbraith 

Agency Head/Executive Director

Area Served: Washington, DC (USA)

Established: 1999

Provides transportation, overnight lodging, selfhelp support group, drop-in center, information,

referrals, gifts for children, family reunification

support, public education, advocacy, legal services for incarcerated and recently released women

and their families.

Prison Activist Resource Center

Telephone: (510) 893-4648

Address: P.O. Box 339 

Berkeley, CA 94701

E-mail: parc@prisonactivist.org

Web site: www.prisonactivist.org

Contact: Vanessa Agard-Jones

Agency Head/Coordinator

Area Served: USA

Established: 1994

Provides information, referrals, public information and advocacy.

Prison Connection, Inc.

Telephone: (888) 218-8464

Address: 1859 Polo Lake Drive East 

Wellington, FL 33414

E-mail: seeacon@aol.com

Web site: www.theprisonconnection.com

Contacts: Darrell Carbone

Registrar

Sal Tarantola 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Concom, Inc.

Established: 1981

Provides bus transportation and meals for 

prison visitors. Also provides gifts for children 

of prisoners.

Prisoner Visitation and Support

Telephone: (215) 241-7117

Address: 1501 Cherry Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19102

E-mail: pvs@afsc.org

Web site: www.prisonervisitation.org

Contact: Eric Carson 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1968

Provides volunteer visitors to prisoners who get

no, or few, other visitors.

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Re-Entry Prison and Jail Ministry

Telephone: (619) 426-4557

Address: P.O. Box 620 

Chula Vista, CA 91912

E-mail: reentry@reentry.org

Web page: www.reentry.org

Contact: Art Lyons, Agency Head

Chaplain/Executive Director 

Area Served: USA

Established: 1980

Provides parent education, self-help support

group, information, referrals, mentoring, religious

ministry, community residential program, 

public education, advocacy, legal services 

and information for inmates transitioning back

into society.

Restorative Justice Ministry

Network of North America

Telephone: (936) 291-2156

Address: 1232 Avenue J 

Huntsville, TX 77340

E-mail: esolomon@txucom.net 

Web page: www.rjmn.net

Contact: Emmet Solomon 

Agency Head/ Executive Director

Area Served: USA

Established: 1993

Provides information and referrals to a national

network of churches and organizations.

Set Free Prison Ministries, Inc.

Telephone: (909) 787-9907

Address: P.O. Box 5440 

Riverside, CA 92517

E-mail: sfpmkyr@juno.com

Contacts: Kathy Rees

Business/Finance Manager

Philip Wagner 

Agency Head/Director

Area Served: USA and Canada

Established: 1970

Publication: Bible correspondence course.

Provides free Bible correspondence school for

inmates and their families.

Tough Love International

Telephone: (800) 333-1069

Address: P.O. Box 1069 

Doylestown, PA 18901

E-mail: service@toughlove.org

Web site: www.toughlove.org

Contacts: Patricia Lacy

Executive Director

David York

Agency Head/Founder

Area Served: USA and International

Provides self-help support group for parents of

out-of-control children and young adults.

Urban Family Institute

Telephone: (202) 234-5437

Address: 1300 Allison Street, NW

Washington, DC 20011

E-mail: kids@ufi.org

Web site: www.ufi.org

Contacts: Heidi Colbert, Program Director 

Corrections Institution

Kent Amos 

Agency Head/President

Area Served: USA

Established: 1998

Provides self-help support, information, referrals,

technical assistance and family reunification 

support through “nurturing villages” such as Kids

House and the Urban Family University.

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Programs Offering National Services
Wings Ministry

Telephone: (505) 291-6412

Address: 2226 B Wyoming, NE, #130 

Albuquerque, NM 87112

E-mail: annedenfield@email.msn.com

Web site: www.globallogos.org

Contact: Ann Edenfield

Director

Area Served: USA

Parent 

Organization: Global Logos

Provides religious ministry outreach gatherings

(Easter, Back-To-School, and Christmas) to 

families of prisoners.

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Canadian Families and

Corrections Network

Telephone: (613) 541-0743

Address: Box 35040 

Kingston, Ontario K7L 1H2

E-mail: cfcn@sympatico.ca

Web site: www3.sympatico.ca/cfcn

Provides a current listing of programs serving

families of adult offenders in Canada through its

web site at www3.sympatico.ca/cfcn/.

Link to Programs in Canada
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18th Street Development Corporation Raising

Others’ Children, 45

4-H Living Interactive Family Education -

Missouri Department of Corrections, 24

A

A.I.M., 22

ADAPT, 43

AFSC Criminal Justice Program, 30

Agape Women’s Center, 13

Aid to Children of Imprisoned Mothers, Inc.

(AIM), 14

Aid to Incarcerated Marriages, 29

Aid to Incarcerated Mothers (A.I.M.), 22

AIM, 14

Aleph Institute, 13, 59

All God’s Children Camp, 53

Allen Correctional Institution, 37

Alternative Directions, Inc., 20

Angel Tree/Angel Tree Camping, 11, 59

Assisting Families of Inmates, Inc., 53

Association of X-Offenders (TAX), 48, 59

B

Belmont Correctional Institution, 37

Bethel Bible Village, 47, 59

Bethesda Family Services Foundation, 45, 60

Bexar County Detentions Ministries, 48

C

C.H.I.P.S., 24

California Department of Corrections, Office of

Community Services, 2

Canadian Families and Corrections Network, 68

Capital Area Head Start-Woodside Center, 45

CCA Marion Adjustment Center, 17

Center for Behavioral Health, Justice and Public

Policy, 20, 60

Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents, 2, 60

Center For Women In Transition, 24

Challenging Incarcerated Parents and Spouses, 24

Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated

Mothers, 15

Child Welfare League of America 

(CWLA), 11, 60

Children Made Visible, Inc., 43

Children’s Center at Bedford Hills Correctional

Facility, 32

Chillicothe Correctional Institution, 37

Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants

(CURE), 11, 61

CLAIM, 15

CLEAR AIM, Inc., 17

Columbia Correctional Institution, 56

Community Project For Reintegration, 32

Correctional Reception Center, 37

Council on Crime and Justice, 23

Criminal Justice Ministry, 25

CURE, 11, 55, 61

CWLA, 11, 60

D

Dixon Correctional Institute, 19

Draper Site Complex, 52

E

E.Q.U.I.P. Parent Education Program, 48

Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, 44

ECO, Inc., 36

Empowerment Program, The, 9

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Encouraging Words, Inc., 38, 61

Energy Committed to Offenders, Inc., 36

Eunice Chambless Hospitality House, 48

F

Families Advocating for Inmate Reintegration, 29

Families Against Mandatory Minimums 

(FAMM), 11, 61

Families and Friends of Convicts United for

Support, 9

Families in Crisis, Inc., 9

Families of Prisoners Support Project, 32

Family and Corrections Network, 53, 62

Family Connection, 47

Family Connections, 56

Family Connections of LSSI, 15

Family Intervention Strategic Initiative, 44

Family Justice, Inc., 33, 62

Family ReEntry, Inc., 10

Family Resource Center, 33

Family Resource Center of the Lakes Region

Facility, 29

Family Services of Western Pennsylvania

Families Outside, 45

Family Tree Access Center, Inc., 52

Family Works, 33

Family/Community Services Center, 29

FAMM, 11, 61

Fathers Behind Bars, Inc., 22, 61

Federal Bureau of Prisons, 12

FOCUS, 9

Fox Lake Correctional Institute, 56

Franklin Pre-Release Center, 38

Fresh Start, 10

Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons, 28

Friends Outside in Contra Costa County, 3

Friends Outside in Los Angeles County, 3

Friends Outside in San Bernardino County, 4

Friends Outside in San Luis Obispo County, 4

Friends Outside in Santa Clara County, 4

Friends Outside in Santa Cruz County, 5

Friends Outside in Orange County, 3

Friends Outside in Sacramento County, 4

Friends Outside in Sonoma County, 5

Friends Outside in Stanislaus County, 5

Friends Outside: National Organization, 3

Friends Outside: Visitors Centers, 5

FrontLine Ministries, 1

G

Girl Scout Council of Greater St. Louis, 25

Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, 21

Girls and Boys Town, 28, 62

Girls Scouts of Rolling Hills Council, 30

Grafton Correctional Institution, 38

Green Bay Correctional Institution, 56

Green River Correctional Complex, 18

H

Hope Aglow Ministries, Inc., 54

Hope House, 38

Hospitality House, 49

Hospitality House (Hebrews 13:2-3), Inc., 15

Hour Children, 33

Human Resources Development Institute, Inc., 16

I

Idaho Department of Correction, 15

Indiana Women’s Prison, 16
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InnerChange Freedom Initiative, 43, 62

Internet Friends Outside, 8, 63

Isaiah 61:1, Inc., 10

J

Juvenile Division - Multnomah County

Department of Community Justice, 44

K

Kairos Outside, 13, 63

Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women, 18

Kentucky State Reformatory, 18

Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, 57

Kids Need Moms - Camp Branch, 23

L

Lake Erie Correctional Institution, 38

LaPorte County Community Corrections, 17

Lee Adjustment Center, 18

Legal Action Center, 33

Let’s Start, 25

Lima Correctional Institution, 39

Long Distance Dads, 21, 63

Long Distance Dads - Missouri Department of

Corrections, 25

LOOPS, Inc., 49

Loved Ones of Prisoners, 49

Luther Luckett Correctional Complex, 18

Lutheran Ministries, 26

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, 16

Lyon County Even Start, 19

M

M.A.T.C.H., 36

Madison Correctional Institution, 39

Maine Correctional Center, 20

Marion Correctional Institution, 39

Maryland Correctional Institution for Women,

Education Department, 21

Maryland Division of Correction, 21

Massachusetts Department of Correction, 22

MATCH/PATCH Program, 49

Matthew House, 55

Memorial Child Guidance Clinic, 54

Message of Love, 12, 63

MidCoast Hospitality House, 20

Middle Ground Prison Reform, 1

Montgomery Education and Pre-Release 

Center, 39

Mothers & Children Together, 26

Mothers And Their Children, 36

N

National Clearinghouse for the Defense of

Battered Women, 46, 64

National Incarcerated Muslim Network 

(NIMN), 49, 64

National Marriage Encounter Prison 

Ministry, Inc., 40, 64

National Trust for the Development of AfricanAmerican Men, 22, 64

Navigators, 54

Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, 28

New Beginnings Even Start, 34

New Beginnings Visitor Center, 8

New Hampshire Catholic Charities, 29

New Hampshire Department of Corrections, 30

New Jersey Association on Correction 

(NJAC), 30

New York State Department of Correctional

Services, 34

NIMN, 49, 64
NJAC, 30

Noble Correctional Institution, 40

North Central Correctional Institution, 40

O

Oakhill Correctional Institution, 57

OAR of Fairfax Co., Inc., 54

OCI, 41

Ohio Reformatory for Women, 40

Ohio State Penitentiary, 41

Ohio State University Extension: Jefferson

County, 41

OPEN, Inc., 50

OPEN, Inc. - Offender Preparation and

Education Network, Inc., 64

Options Center, Inc., 23

Orient Correctional Institution (OCI), 41

Osborne Association, 34

Oshkosh Correctional Institution 57

Our Place, DC, 12, 65

Out, But Not Free, Inc., 50

P

P B & J Family Services, Inc., 31

P.E.A.C.E., Inc. Early Head Start, 34

Parent Center, 2

Parenting From A Distance, 26

Parenting With Purpose, 24

Parents and Children Together, Inc., 50

Parents Anonymous of New Jersey, Inc., 31

Parents As Teachers, 26

ParentWISE, Inc., 46

PATCH of Chillicothe, 26

PATCH of W.E.R.D.C.C., 27

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, 46

People Empowering People, 10

Pickaway Correctional Institution, 41

Pima Community College, 1

Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, 19

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, 52

Prevent Child Abuse Virginia, 54

Prison Activist Resource Center, 8, 65

Prison Connection, Inc., 13, 65

Prison Families Anonymous, 35

Prison Families of New York, Inc., 35

Prison Family Services, 31

Prisoner Family Services, 27

Prisoner Visitation and Support, 46, 65

Project SEEK, 23

Puget Sound EHS- Early Head Start, 55

R

Racine Correctional Institution, 57

Reconciliation Ministries, Inc., 31, 47

Redgranite Correctional Institution, 58

Re-Entry Prison and Jail Ministry, 8, 66

Regeneration, Inc., 27

Regional Criminal Justice Ministry Center of

South Texas, 50

Regional Family Resource Center, 50

Restorative Justice Ministry Network of North

America, 51, 66

Richland Correctional Institution, 41

Ross Correctional Institution, 42

S

S.K.I.P., Inc. Community Resource Services, 1

San Antonio Fighting Back of United Way, 51

Save Kids of Incarcerated Parents, 1

SCI-Muncy, 46

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Second Genesis Ministries, Inc., 2

Services to Enable and Empower Kids, 23

Set Free Prison Ministries, Inc., 8, 66

Shepherds Inn, 51

Skyview-Hodge Family Visitors Center, 51

SMCI, 58

Southeastern Correctional Institution, 42

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, 42

Southern Prison Ministry, 14

St. Rose Residence Family Reunification 

Program, 58

Story Link Program, 27

Supermax Correctional Institution (SMCI), 58

T

Tampa Crossroads, Inc., 14

TAX, 59

Tennessee Department of Correction, 47

Time for Freedom, 14

Topeka Correctional Facility - Inmate Family

Reintegration, 17

Tough Love International, 47, 66

Trumbull Correctional Institution, 42

Tulsa Parenting Partnership, 43

U

Urban Family Institute, 12, 66

V

Vermont Department of Corrections, 53

Virginia Cares Transition Program, 55

Virginia CURE (Hampton Roads), 55

Visiting Nurse Association, 28

Volunteers of America of Texas, 51

W

Welcome House Visitor Center, 9

Western Kentucky Correctional Complex, 19

Wilmington College - Franklin Pre-Release

Center, 42

Wings Ministry, 31, 67

Wisconsin Department of Corrections, 58

Woman At The Well House Ministries, Inc., 52

Women At Risk Program, 36

Women’s Prison Association and Home, Inc., 35

Worldwide Voice In the Wilderness, 52

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