New Bronx location and summer camp featured on News12
“School and summer break was hard enough on kids during the coronavirus pandemic, and it was even harder for kids with family members in prison or jail. Children of Promise is an organization that provides free programs to these kids with relatives behind bars.
In previous years, they focused the summer program on fun activities like being outdoors and arts and crafts. But this year because of COVID-19, they really wanted to implement classes like math and reading and hired Department of Education teachers to teach these classes.”
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CPNYC and Miss USA visit highlighted in BKReader
On Wednesday, the Mississippi beauty queen stopped in at Bed-Stuy’s Children of Promise organization to surprise other children with incarcerated parents and share her story.
Children of Promise is a not-for-profit that supports families of imprisoned parents. Since winning Miss USA 2020, Branch has used her platform to raise awareness about the impact mass incarceration has had on young people like herself.
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Miss USA visit to Brooklyn site on amNY
Miss USA 2020 Asya Branch, 23, visited Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn yesterday, July 14, to share her story with children of incarcerated parents and their families about her years growing up with a father incarcerated in prison.
“I wish I had an organization like Children of Promise during my childhood to deal with the trauma of having my father incarcerated for ten years of my life,” said Brand. “I now use my voice and platform to make a difference in the lives of these children and their parents.”
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CPNYC featured on PIX11 Morning News with Miss USA Asya Branch
“More than 105,000 children in New York state have a parent in prison.
Nationwide, that number is about 2.7 million, according to Children of Promise, an organization on a mission to support these children.
Children of Promise founder Sharon Content and Miss USA Asya Branch spoke with PIX11 News about how people can make a difference and help children around the country.”
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PBS News Hour highlights CPNYC therapeutic model
“More than 2.7 million kids in the United States have a parent behind bars. And parental incarceration can be a powerful adverse childhood experience (or ACE), an event in childhood that is potentially traumatic, leading to long-term physical and emotional impacts….’It’s not that the child [of an incarcerated parent] is more likely to commit a crime,’ Content said. ‘It’s the systems in which this child is being raised.’”
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Sharon Content speaks on mentorship for the New York Times
Children of Promise, NYC Founder and President joined other mentorship programs to speak to the importance of mentors for youth during COVID, especially for those we support here at CPNYC.
“I don’t think society understands the impact the virus has created. “Some children don’t have food, or Wi-Fi, or a parent telling them to put on a winter coat.” In the meantime, she continued, “there’s no visitation in the prisons, there are limitations with the phones because more prisoners are on them, and the child is worried that their parent is sick because the #COVID19 rate is so high in prisons.”
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