The Impact of Mass Incarceration on System-Involved Youth

Nola Kesia Brantley

Training Description

Given the disproportion number of people of color in the prison system, it is important to understand mass incarceration and how it impacts system-involved youth. In this training we will talk about the historical context of mass incarceration, why mass incarceration exists, how it impacts youth, and strategies to support youth who have an incarcerated parent. This understanding is crucial for caregivers and other service or support providers so that they can compassionately support system involved youth impacted by incarceration towards improved outcomes.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify two factors which contribute to mass incarceration.

2. Participants will be able to identify at least 2 impacts of mass incarceration on system-involved youth

3. Participants will be to identify at least 2 strategies for engagement of system-involved youth with an incarcerated parent

Agenda 

9:30-9:45am Welcome & Introductions

9:45-10:00am Describing Mass Incarceration Activity

10:00-10:15am Mass Incarceration in the USA

10:15-10:30am Lifetime Likelihood of Imprisonment

10:30-10:45am The Personal Impact of Mass Incarceration

10:45-11:00am Mass Incarceration in California

11:00-11:15am COVID and Mass Incarceration

11:15-11:30am Reasons Mass Incarceration Exists

11:30-11:45am Structural Racism

11:45am-12:00pm The Judicial System

12:00-12:15pm Probation and Parole

12:15-12:30pm Mandatory Sentences

12:30-1:00pm Lunch-Break (CE Hours will not be offered for this time)

1:00-1:15pm Youth in Confinement

1:15-1:30pm Criminalizing Poverty

1:30-1:45pm Loss of Parental Rights

1:45-2:00pm The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Youth

2:00-2:15pm Supporting Youth When A Parent is Incarcerated

2:15-2:30pm Closing and Wrap-up

Meet Our Trainer

Nola Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!

This course meets the qualifications for (4.5) BBS CE Hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.