April 3, 2024 Extended Family is Expanding Our Resource Database
Extended Family helps hundreds of people each year who have a loved one who is incarcerated. One of the ways we do this is by maintaining a current Resource Database, […]
March 27, 2024 Extended Fmaily Uses a “Whole Family” Approach to Break the Cycle of Incarceration
The National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2019 reported that 6.5% of U.S. children aged 5-17 years old had experienced parental or guardian incarceration, which is considered […]
March 20, 2024 Join the Extended Family Team
Extended Family continues to grow and offer programs to hundreds of children each year. To meet the increasing demand, we will be hiring a new Program Leader to begin this spring. […]
March 13, 2024 Extended Family is Scheduling Extended Family for Kids Program Leader Training Now for Summer 2024
Extended Family for Kids (EFK) is an evidence-based program for children ages kindergarten through 12th grades who have any loved one who is currently or has ever been incarcerated. EFK provides […]
Extended Family Provides Extended Family for Kids Program Leader Training to Lovelady Center
Extended Family actively seeks partnerships with organizations who share our passion for building stronger families by providing programs designed to strengthen each individual family member. Recently, we have partnered with […]
February 28, 2024 Extended Family for Kids
Extended Family for Kids (EFK) is a 9-lesson, evidence-based curriculum for children of the incarcerated. EFK is offered in schools and after-school programs for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. In […]
February 14, 2024 Extended Family, Blending Purpose and Passion to Achieve Our Goals
The success of a not-for-profit organization depends on many factors, but at the core, the organization must be able to explain why it exists and what need it meets. Extended […]
February 7, 2024 Special Guest Speaker at Extended Family’s 20th Anniversary Celebration of Life Will Share Her Vision of Hope
“My beginning was beautiful.” This first line of “Tiffany’s Story,” an autobiographical piece written by a young woman several years ago, is familiar to hundreds of students and Program Leaders […]
January 31, 2024 Twenty Years of Offering Help and Inspiring Hope
Since 2003, Extended Family has been teaching families of prisoners how to successfully adjust to a new way of life. We offer a free, solutions-based approach to the prison experience. Our website, www.extendedfamilyhelp.org, […]
January 24, 2024 Extended Family Names Assistant Director
Extended Family is pleased to announce the addition of an Assistant Director to our staff. Daphne Rogers, who has served as Communications Director and Program Leader, has been selected to […]
