PGI Youth & Family

The Entire Family is Impacted by Incarceration

FailSafe-ERA PGI YOUTH & FAMILY promotes family reunification and provides supportive

services to prevent generations of incarceration (PGI).

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CARING CONNECTIONS

SUPPORT GROUP

Our support group for families affected by incarceration promotes healthy communication and positive relationships.

Individuals learn, in a supportive and non-judgmental environment, the techniques to properly grieve the loss of their incarcerated loved ones and how to survive the incarceration process, the most common being the shame associated with admitting that incarceration has touched their lives.

Through our family support group, which meets monthly at the FailSafe-ERA office, we have given family members that were ashamed a voice. They learn how to manage expectations and how not to become an enabler once the loved one returns home.

CARING CONNECTIONS

YOUTH GROUP

The Caring Connections Youth Group is designed to promote positive behaviors, confidence, and mindsets that resist criminal activities and thoughts in a supportive environment. Participants learn practical tips and exercises to help them overcome obstacles and recover from life-altering decisions. We offer programs such as the Toastmasters Youth Leadership Program at the Rappahanock Juvenile Detention Center, BrainThrive 25 and other small group community activities.

Our Youth are challenged to examine how their behavior and choices are caused by their emotions, thoughts, and beliefs. They not only explore problems resulting in bad behavior, but also learn how to make good decisions. We also offer a scholarship to a deserving youth candidate, learn more here.

ECHIPS

Equipping Children with Incarcerated Parents (ECHIPS) is a program designed for elementary aged children, to reduce the trauma and related challenges that children of incarcerated parents and loved ones often face. They learn social and emotional strategies where they can better cope with the challenges brought on by the situation that they are experiencing. The specific trauma informed interventions include psychoeducation about trauma, strategies for identifying distressing and irrational thinking and behavior, relaxation techniques, cognitive reframing, and emotion regulation skills. Request FailSafe-ERA to bring our ECHIPS program into your school district, click here.