Track 6: Justice-Involved Families
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Justice-Involved Families
This track offers sessions that provide guidance on supporting your family through legal challenges, understanding your rights, and accessing resources for justice-involved families. Navigating the justice system can be overwhelming, especially for families. Whether you’re dealing with incarceration, legal issues, or reentry, these sessions will provide valuable information and support to help you navigate this complex system.
Breakout Speakers
Building Justice and Equity: Supporting Fathers in Child Welfare
Investigate the effects of policies and practices on fathers engaged with child welfare systems. This session presents approaches to enhance equity within systems that improve father involvement and family bonding while promoting justice and healing in vulnerable communities.
Devon Gilchrist, Master of Social Work, Minnesota Licensed Graduate Social Worker, Wisconsin Certified Advanced Practice Social Work
Successful Community Transitions: Supporting Reentry for Fathers
Discover resources and strategies that help formerly incarcerated fathers reconnect with their families and communities. Participants learn practical tools for education and job placement to help fathers rebuild their lives and connect with their communities after incarceration.
Adam Trunzo has worked for 10 years with fathers in rural Wisconsin through 4-H programs and parenting classes offered in jails and in the broader community. He has a 4 year old son named Isaac and a 7 years old daughter named Caroline.
Co-parenting after incarceration
Learn practical tools to overcome challenges and promote a healthy parenting relationship. Anthony’s experience in supporting families during this sensitive transition, and his personal journey highlights the importance of open and honest communication, family counseling, and mediation to rebuild trust. His approach encourages establishing consistent routines and boundaries, focusing on the child’s emotional well-being, and working collaboratively despite past difficulties.
Anthony B. Cooper Sr. is the CEO and Founder of Focused Interruption Coalition and a passionate advocate for violence prevention and family healing. With a strong commitment to treatment alternatives over incarceration and building healthy relationships, Anthony empowers co-parents to rebuild trust, establish consistent routines, and prioritize children’s emotional well-being. Drawing from both professional expertise and personal experience, he promotes open communication, family counseling, and collaborative co-parenting. His work emphasizes the power of unified, community-based solutions to address complex challenges and foster lasting change for current and future generations.
