NRCCFI offers a series of exciting onsite and remote trainings. Learn about our newest trainings for teachers and school personnel, for mentoring youth in juvenile justice programs, for working with children and families when parents return from prison and for implementing policy reform using the Bill of Rights for Children of the Incarcerated. Read More
Here you will find updates regarding the latest news and progress reports on the various Bill of
Rights policy projects throughout the nation. The Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated
Parents was published in 2003 by the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents
Partnership, a coalition of groups in the San Francisco area and supported by the Zellerbach
These rights, written by journalist and author, Nell Bernstein, and co-author, Gretchen Newby,
director of Friends Outside, have guided advocates across the country, and in other countries, as
well, as they pursued improved policies and practices that are less harmful and take the children
into account.
On the FCN website, you will find relevant updates of various groups across the nation who are
using the framework of the Bill of Rights for policy improvements. Please let Dee Ann Newell
know of activities by your group that are framed by the Bill of Rights.
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