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Literacy Link

Brings literacy and learning to children with justice-involved parents through jail video visits, recorded readings, and parent education programs at UW-Madison Extension.

https://theliteracylink.extension.wisc.edu/
Children + Families

Projects (4)

Caregiver Workshops and Support

Increased support of careging adults that decreases their stress, and helps them to care for and support children with parents who are involved in the justice system.

Children + FamiliesOutreach
Caregiving adults of children with justice-involved parents, local human services departments and social workers, probation officersHeidi Ungrodt or Ronda Davis

Enhanced Jail Visits

Creation of family-friendly and child appropriate spaces that promote positive family interactions to address the stress/anxiety that children may experience during visits to correctional facilities.

Children + FamiliesNew Partners
Local jails and correctional facilities (currently Dane and Racine Counties) and caregiving adults of children with justice-involved parentsPam Wedig-Kirsch or Ronda Davis

Making Reading Memories, and Read and Connect Workshop

Strengthened child-parent connection and well-being, increased child literacy development and parental confidence

Children + FamiliesMarketing
Local jails and correctional facilities, and other justice settings (eg. treatment facilities) around WI, probation officers, social work case managers, caregiving adults of children with justice-involved parentsPam Wedig-Kirsch or Ronda Davis

Pareting Inside Out-Literacy Link

Increased positive parenting skills, improved communication effectiveness, parent-child and other family relationships, increased parental confidence, increased support for caregivers of children with justice-involved parents. Long-term: buffering effects of adversity cycles for children and families, prevention of negative child outcomes including future delinquent and criminal behaviors.

Children + FamiliesMarketing
Local jails in WI. probation officers, social work case managers, caregiving adults of children with justice-involved childrenMary Campbell Wood or Ronda Davis