Project Avary is pleased to work with many wonderful partner organizations.
AcroSports
Offers classes year-round for students age 18-months through adult in gymnastics, tumbling, circus arts, dance, and more.
Blue Water Foundation
Gives inner city and at-risk children the opportunity to experience sailing.
Centerforce
Provides services for prisoners, ex-prisoners, and family members of prisoners.
Environmental Traveling Companions
Opens the beauty and challenge of outdoor adventures to people with special needs.
Family Support Services of the Bay Area
Provides support to parents and other caregivers of vulnerable children.
Pacific Leadership Institute
Promoting learn-by-doing experiences using challenge, the outdoors, and play as teaching tools for self-esteem, team-work, leadership, and life skills.
San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
A coalition of social service providers, representatives of government bodies, advocates and others who work with or are concerned about children of incarcerated parents and their families.
Slide Ranch
A non-profit teaching farm located at a historic coastal dairy perched above the ocean in the Marin Headlands.
Local Agencies Serving the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
The Chowchilla Family Express
Provides free transportation for the families and loved ones of the women incarcerated at the two prisons in Chowchilla, California to come visit.
Get on the Bus
Brings children and their caregivers from throughout California to visit their mothers and fathers in prison.
National Agencies Serving the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Founded in 1989 by Denise Johnston and Katherine Gabel, our mission is the prevention of intergenerational crime and incarceration. Our goals are the production of high quality documentation on and the development of model services for children of criminal offenders and their families.
Family & Corrections Network
Since 1983, has provided ways for those concerned with families of prisoners to share information and experiences in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
General Research & Information Sources
Children of incarcerated Parents, C.W. Simmons, California Research Bureau, March 2000
Children of Incarcerated parents, K. Gabel & D. Johnston (Eds.) New York: Lexington Books, 1995
"Mental Health: A Report of the surgeon General" U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999
Children of Incarcerated Parents, Council on Crime and Justice, January 2006
All Alone in the World, Nell Bernstein, 2005
Silent Victims: The Impact of Parental Incarceration on Children, National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 2008
Focus on Children With Incarcerated Parents, An Overview of the Research Literature, 2007
