Historical Feature1 min read
Week 25: Justice Dinner
Historical Feature
LET’S GO!
- Check out this Sesame Street Interactive Toolkit for activities, videos and ideas on how to work through challenging issues like coping with incarceration.
- For more resources, here is a recommended book list for families impacted by incarceration from the Sentencing Project.
- Watch Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration by Sesame Street.
- Ask a family member to read you In My Family by Rebecca Honig-Briggs.
- Watch Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration – Nylo’s Story by Sesame Street, about a young man whose mother is in prison and how he copes with being away from her.
- Watch and listen to this Reading Rainbow read aloud of Visiting Day by Jacqueline Woodson.
- Through the Echoes of Incarceration Project, a group of young filmmakers with incarcerated parents set out to understand some of the hidden consequences of our nation’s approach to imprisonment. In their first film, Caring Through Struggle: Caregivers of Children with Incarcerated Parents, the crew journeyed to understand their childhood being brought up by grandparents, and by extension, the issues caregivers face when raising a child with an incarcerated parent. It involved tough questions, and some surprising realizations that a crew member had more in common with the grandmothers than he expected.(1)
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Watch Visiting Day (Parts 2 and 3), which tells a story of how a parent’s incarceration impacts an entire family.
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