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Session Type: Hot Topic Symposia

Maternal and Parental Incarceration and its Impact on Child Health - Bridging Across Generations

Friday, May 3, 2024
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM ET
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 107
CE: Live CME: 1.5

Selected By: APS
Disclosure(s):
Mark R. Schleiss, MD: Moderna Vaccines (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)
Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH: WoltersKluwer - UpToDate (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Intellectual Property including patent beneficiary and royalties)

Session

Description: In this "Hot Topics" symposium, the impact of incarceration of pregnant persons and parents on the health of children will be reviewed. The issue of youth incarceration stands as the "issue of the year" for the 2024 PAS meeting, and this session will extend the topic of youth incarceration to the analysis of the impact of parental and pregnant person incarceration on child health. With the US having the highest incarceration rate in the world, these barriers currently place more than 5 million children who have experienced incarceration of a parent at risk of worse mental and physical health outcomes. This session will take a lifecourse approach to explore how the criminal legal system impacts pregnant people and children with incarcerated parents. Dr. Rebecca Shlafer, co-chair of the session, will focus on the health and health outcomes of pregnant people and their infants. Dr. Nia Heard-Garris will share data about how young children and adolescents exposed to parental incarceration have worse access to primary care and more unmet dental and mental health care needs than their peers. Dr. Matthew Aalsma will focus on the impact of parental incarceration on the mental health of children. Taken together, their work explores strategies to improve child health, through public health care collaboration, transformation in the public sector, and reforms in criminal justice, mental health, and policy. APS President Dr. Michael DeBaun will conclude the symposium by considering intergenerational impacts of incarceration, bridging the impact of parental incarceration to long-term health outcomes for children.

Learning Objectives:

  • ...recognize parental incarceration is disproportionately concentrated among Black, poor, and rural children and that inequitable and racialized parental incarceration produces adverse outcomes, including child poverty.
  • ...describe how innovative community-university-corrections partnerships for families impacted by the criminal legal system can reduce risk factors and promote health equity.
  • ...explore multiple ways families experience forms of marginalization, engaged across different systems (child welfare, juvenile and criminal justice) and identify solutions that promote health equity.

Presentations:

  • 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM ET
    Impact of Parental Incarceration on Child Health and Development

    Speaker: Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota | Department of Pediatrics

  • 4:05 PM – 4:25 PM ET
    The Importance of Longitudinal Treatment Engagement for Youths in the Juvenile Justice System

    Speaker: Matthew Aalsma, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana University School of Medicine

  • 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM ET
    Health Care Access and Use Among Children and Adolescents Exposed to Parental Incarceration

    Speaker: Nia J. Heard-Garris, MD, MBA, MSc (she/they) – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University

  • 4:45 PM – 5:05 PM ET
    Increasing Access to Quality Healthcare for Children who are Incarcerated and the Impact of Parental Incarceration History

    Speaker: Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine