The Promoting Safe and Stable Families
Amendments, as reauthorized (2006,amended Title IV-B of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 629-629e) providing funding for nonprofit
agencies that recruit, screen, train, and support mentors for
children with an incarcerated parent or parents. The Family and
Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the Administration for Children and
Families, United States Department of Health and Human Services,
administers the Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program. The
MCP program provides children of prisoners with caring adult
mentors by supporting one-to-one mentoring relationships. Research
in other populations has shown that such relationships can lead to
reductions in risk behaviors and improvements in academic,
behavioral, and psychological outcomes in children and youth.
Although the MCP program was developed based on research
documenting the efficacy of mentoring as a general intervention
strategy, it is not yet known whether or not this particular
intervention yields positive outcomes for the children of prisoners
population. Little is known about how mentoring relationships work
for these youth, and how effective mentoring relationships for
children of prisoners differ from effective mentoring relationships
for other youth. In addition, little is known about children of
prisoners in general and thus a survey of MCP program youth has the
potential to provide important data about this relatively unstudied
population.
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Pub.L. 109 - 288 8 Name of Law: Children and Family Services
Improvement Act of 2006
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