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Practical measures and strategies
Providing training for professional staff working with offenders
Recommendation 23: Agencies working directly or indirectly with offenders and their children/families should receive training to ensure that children affected by their parents’ conflict with the law are treated sensitively and that assistance is provided to the children, the offenders, and their family to develop or maintain healthy relationships.- Provide training on child-related policies, practices and procedures, for all correctional staff in contact with children and their parents serving a prison sentence and/or a community-based sentence.
- Provide training for organization staff who come into contact with children and their imprisoned parents in areas such as the children’s needs and rights, the impact of imprisonment on the children, or how to support imprisoned parents, their children and their families.
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Committing to a culturally sensitive approach, including respect for Indigenous values and traditions
Recommendation 24:- Support the development of systems, standards and practices that respect and reflect the pivotal place that culture, tradition, values, language and identity play in the lives of children.
- Help children build connection to community, culture, group, clan, and extended family when those relationships have been damaged.
- Engage community resources without a formal mandate to support the children and their families.
- Help Indigenous children and heal families by helping children preserve their aboriginal identity.
- Keep Indigenous children connected to their land, languages and culture.
- Make use of Indigenous decision-making process.
- Work closely with Indigenous communities to identify ways to protect children of parents in conflict with the law without removing them from the family or the community, and find homes within the children’s extended family or community.
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Working with the media and with public opinion
Recommendation 25: Provide the public, through the media and other means, with reliable and up-to-date data and good practice examples to increase their awareness regarding the children affected by parental imprisonment and their needs, and to prevent stereotyping and stigmatizing children with imprisoned parents.-
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Ensuring adequate funding
Recommendation 26: Provide sufficient resources to agencies and organizations to support children with imprisoned parents and their families to enable them to deal effectively with their particular situation and specific needs.-
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