While leisure might conjure up images of foamy drinks with umbrella straws and visits to day spas, Ms. Link spends much of her time studying about and working with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people and at-risk youth.
She created ScholarCHIPS, a scholarship program for children with incarcerated parents.
She'd seen much the same in her earlier work with incarcerated youth, who often had long histories of prior victimization.
But now the mentoring program that helps Delvon and 20 other youths — Through the Walls: Mentoring Children with Incarcerated Parents at the Youth Justice Institute — is in jeopardy.
Research indicates that children who stay in contact with incarcerated parents demonstrate an improved sense of well-being and better academic outcomes.
One thing I learned from working with incarcerated populations is that having a good understanding of leisure and implementing it can be a coping skill, especially through transitions.
In my work with incarcerated women, I have observed that a third or more of the inmates I encounter are arrested for outstanding warrants, some that date back as far as the nineteen-eighties.
In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I've taught kids with incarcerated parents, abusive parents, neglectful parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless or who live in crowded apartments in violent neighborhoods; kids who grew up in developing countries.
Mr. Colvard recently went to McAllen, about six miles north of the Mexican border, to work in a poor Hispanic community at such tasks as serving lunch at a hospice, doing chores at a home for the elderly and working with incarcerated youths.
In east Houston, another of the city's troubled neighborhoods, Marilyn Gambrell, the founder of No More Victims Inc., a support group for students at M. B. Smiley High School with incarcerated parents, said that more than half of the 1,250 students there have relatives in prison or who have done time in the past.
In two studies, we examined teachers' experiences with children with incarcerated parents and their expectations for competence of children with incarcerated mothers.
