FY23
The program is a partnership with the Mental Health Association and Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership to expand services to children and parents impacted by incarceration. This program is a three-pronged approach: parent education, one-on-one family advocate services, and community-based support designed to disrupt the negative impacts of incarceration on each member of the family.
(This program was formerly named "Families Impacted by Incarceration Program [FIIP]")
FY22
The program is a partnership with the Mental Health Association and Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership to expand services to children and parents impacted by incarceration. The program aims to strengthen the bond between parents, children, caregivers, and the community through a variety of evidence supported activities. These activities include Parenting From Afar (PFA) classes for incarcerated and/or recently incarcerated individuals receiving services at a residential treatment center (RTC), as well as workshops and one on one coaching for caregivers and parents after release.
FY21
This program is a partnership with Mental Health Association (MHA) and Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (COIPP) to expand services to children and parents impacted by incarceration. This program will provide parenting workshops to incarcerated parents and case management and supportive services to caregivers and formerly incarcerated individuals in the community.
The Frederick County Detention Center (FCDC) remained closed to visitors; as a result, COIPP was unable to facilitate “Parenting from Afar” classes to incarcerated parents at FCDC as in previous years. COIPP along with MHA developed a partnership with the Wells House organization and several of their programs that included Gale House. In the beginning of January 2021, COIPP partnered with Gale House to facilitate “Parenting from Afar” class/groups to formerly incarcerated participants. The partnership was successful and as a result, 23 formerly incarcerated individuals attended “Parenting from Afar,” classes during HY2.
FY20
This program is a partnership with Mental Health Association (MHA) and Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (COIPP) to expand services to children and parents impacted by incarceration. This program will provide parenting workshops to incarcerated parents and case management and supportive services to caregivers and formerly incarcerated individuals in the community.
FY19
This program is a partnership with Mental Health Association (MHA) and Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (COIPP) to expand services to children and parents impacted by incarceration. This program will provide parenting workshops to incarcerated parents and case management and supportive services to caregivers and formerly incarcerated individuals in the community.
FY23
The program participants include parents (either incarcerated at Frederick County Adult Detention Center or formally incarcerated living in residential treatment centers) receiving parent education classes, caregivers or formerly incarcerated parents receiving one-on-one family advocate services, or caregivers or formerly incarcerated parents attending the community-based groups. The Building Resiliency program prioritizes providing services to families living in the communities with the highest number of households living in poverty including Frederick City, Brunswick, and Emmitsburg (as identified by the 2020 ALCE report). The program accepts referrals from agencies serving families and children impacted by incarceration, such as the Frederick County Adult Detention Center, Residential Treatment Centers, Frederick County Workforce Services Re-Entry Program, Department of Social Services, Head Start, Frederick County Public Schools, Prison Ministry, Frederick City and County Housing programs, Frederick Community College, Children Of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, Frederick County Judy Center schools, the I Believe In Me mentoring program, Frederick County Drug Court, and Adult Parole and Probation.
FY22
Families impacted by incarceration in Frederick County. This includes caregivers of incarcerated individual's children, incarcerated individuals housed in the Frederick County Adult Detention Center (FCADC) and those previously released from incarceration residing at residential facilities and or in the community. Referrals are received from community service providers, self-referrals, the FCADC and targeted marketing though agencies serving children and families.
FY21
Families impacted by incarceration in Frederick County. This includes caregivers of incarcerated individual's children, incarcerated individuals housed in the Frederick County Adult Detention Center (FCADC) and those previously released from incarceration. Referrals are received from community service providers, self-referrals, the FCADC and targeted marketing though agencies serving children and families.
The target population for the “Parenting from Afar,” classes expanded for HY2, to include formerly incarcerated individuals residing at Gale House Treatment Center.
FY20
Families impacted by incarceration in Frederick County. This includes caregivers of incarcerated individual's children, incarcerated individuals housed in the Frederick County Adult Detention Center (FCADC) and those previously released from incarceration. Referrals are received form community service providers, self-referrals, the FCADC and targeted marketing though agencies serving children and families.
FY19
Families impacted by incarceration.
FY22
Several performance measures for the Parenting from Afar (PFA) participants trended significantly upward. Two performance measures significantly trended downward compared to the same period last year.
The factors that contributed to the upward trend include:
Factors that contributed to downward trends include:
FY21
The target population of caregivers and formerly incarcerated parents creating goal plans and receiving one-on-one coaching services increased for FY21 compared to FY20. FIIP hired a new family coach who utilized her experience and knowledge of the community to increase outreach. Collaborations with other community partners also supported the upward trended for this target population by referring individuals for family coaching services. While some performance measures trended downward, there was an increase in the number of performance measures that trended in the right direction.
There was no data available during HY1, for one target population and one key performance measure in the "How Much" category. This missing data in the “How Much” category affected the data trends for six other performance measures in the “How Well” and “Is Anyone Better Off” categories.
FY20
COVID19 severely limited FIIP’s ability to meet the three target population goals. Some factors that contributed to the decrease in the numbers served compared to the same period last year include: staff turnover, which required re-hiring and training during both reporting periods and because of COVID the inability to enter the detention center to complete and start other Parenting from Afar classes, as well as the inability to meet with groups in the community.
FY19
FY18
FY22
The FIIP program by design, is a collaboration between two larger entities, the Mental Health Association (MHA) and the Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (COIPP). The program has relationships with many agencies committed to providing direct support of the program:
FY21
FY20
This program, by design, is a collaboration between two larger entities, the Mental Health Association (MHA) and the Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (COIPP). The program has relationships with many agencies committed to providing direct support of the program:
The FIIP Community Advisory Board (CAB) is comprised of members of the community from:
Head Start, the Judy Center, Frederick County Workforce Services, the FCADC, Parole and Probation, Office of Children and Families, a client, MHA, and COIP. They have shown to be dedicated to the development and implementation of processes that will meet the challenges the program is facing due to the pandemic and other circumstances. The Advisory Board has met and continues to meet monthly rather than bimonthly. This is to continually tackle the issues FIIP struggles with in order to help reach their performance measures to ultimately better serve the Frederick Community. The FCADC Reentry Coordinator and FIIP’s Family Coach have begun a partnership that should increase the number of Family Coach referrals while simultaneously reducing the rate of recidivism. Local agencies such as Head Start, Housing Authority and the Judy Center have agreed to partner with FIIP, so they can better meet their performance measurements during the pandemic.
FY19
This program, by design, is a collaboration between two larger entities, the Mental Health Association (MHA) and the Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership (COIPP). The program has relationships with many agencies committed to providing direct support of the program:
The FCADC allows RIIEC access to the detention center to facilitate Parenting from Afar. The YMCA Head Start program provides space for the community based grief and loss course and also directly refers Head Start parents to the coaching program. The Frederick County Child Advocacy Center will continue to support MHA in exploring the implementation of trauma awareness in their program and provide guidance on dealing with children with significant loss. RIIEC participants also benefit from discounts and donations on books about coping with feelings, grief and loss and a variety of other issues from Curious Iguana, a local book store.
FY22
FY21
FY20
FY19
FY20
Standardize the documentation process and increase virtual intakes to the parent coaching population. Plan and implement virtual community groups. Planned utilization of the FIIP Facebook page to post mini video presentations on different topics. Increase the number of program participants by conducting outreach to:
FY19
FY18
FY22
FY21
FY20
FY21
During HY1, one key performance measure (# of unduplicated incarcerated parents at the Adult Detention Center receiving “Parenting from Afar” classes) in the How Well category affected the data trends for six other performance measures in the categories of “How Well” and Is Anyone Better Off?”
The “Parenting from Afar classes” that were facilitated at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center (FCADC) was cancelled by FCADC due to the COVID-19 social distancing mandates. As a result, no data was available for this target population for the first half of FY21. The performance measures that were affected are as follows:
How Much PMs
How Well PMs
Better Off PMs