Assisting Families Of Inmates Inc

Afoi's children's services include our milk & cookies (mac) children's program and its continued development and expansion. Mac provides school-based support group programming to children, grades k-5, who have an incarcerated parent, with the purpose of increasing self-competency, emotional regulation, resiliency and other factors within program participants. As emotional dysregulation decreases, children are then better able to achieve socially, emotionally, physically and academically. The mac program also provides support and assistance opportunities for the parents/caregivers of these children in order to reduce household needs/stressors and boost the home environment for all. Mac has continued to expand within rps elementary schools and afoi has continued our work on activity and curriculum updates, program development and evaluation and program virtualization.

Afoi's family services include direct support for families impacted by the incarceration of a loved one. Afoi also partners with vadjj to offer our hearty support for justice-involved youth (youth either reentering our communities from incarceration or youth on probation and parole within our communities) and their families. Afoi also offers holiday assistance to impacted children and families; support through direct services like our family support groups and seminar series, and, direct work in cooperation with vadoc to open and operate the family reunification program for incarcerated parents (mothers), and their children/families, as the parent nears the end of their sentence and reenters their home and community. Afoi currently offers the family reunification program at the virginia correctional center for women (vccw) in goochland, virginia.