Conf Call: Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents

Posted by on March 25, 2005

THE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE AND THE NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION COUNCIL ANNOUNCES SENIOR CORPS, LEARN AND SERVICE AMERICA, AND AMERICORPS DISCUSSION SERIES

TOPIC: Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents and School-based Mentoring

PROMISING MODEL: Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
FEATURED GUESTS: REV. MARK SCOTT, DIRECTOR OF MENTORING PARTNERSHIPS
JOYCE CORLETT, DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

DATE: March 31, 2005
TIME: 2:00pm -3:30pm EST

TO JOIN THE CALL
Call Number: 1-888-998-7891
Passcode: BARBARA
Call Leader: Barbara Wilson

If you have a question and plan to participate in the call, please email Sarita Coletrane at [email protected]

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) continues its technical assistance discussion series designed to specifically address topics such as mentoring, prisoner reentry, family strengthening, and partnership building.

PRIMARY AUDIENCE:
* Senior Corps Project Directors
* Learn and Serve America Directors
* AmeriCorps Directors
* CNCS State Office Staff
* HHS new grantees
* Community and Faith-Based organizations expressing an interest in partnering with CNCS

PURPOSE OF THIS DISCUSSION:
* To provide distance technical assistance to project and program directors with information on implementing a school-based program for mentoring children of incarcerated parents and school-based mentoring
* To provide access to:
* a promising practice from the field with a proven successful model for addressing the needs of children whose parent/parents are incarcerated
* a promising practice from the field with the successful model for school-based mentoring, and
* a featured guest (s) in the field who has experience and knowledge in the area of establishing school-based mentoring programs
* To provide a venue in which project and program directors can ask questions and gain insight on setting up and partnering with a mentoring program
* To acquaint participants with available resources in the area of school-based mentoring children of incarcerated parents.

GOALS:
* Participants will further enhance their understanding on why mentoring children whose parents are incarcerated is important
* Participants will learn about a successful school-based mentoring model
* Participants will acquire three resources from this call to use in executing their projects and programs
* Participants will learn information from the call that they can share with other projects and programs in their state

THE NEXT TOPICAL DISCUSSION COMING IN MAY 2005:
Faith-based Partnerships

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sarita Coletrane
1-800-355-1200
[email protected]

Barbara Wilson
202-606-5000 ext. 297
[email protected]