People of Faith Mentoring Children of Promise:
A Model Partnership Based on Service and Community

More than 1.5 million children in the United States have a parent in prison. Amachi, a partnership of secular and faith-based institutions in Philadelphia, has been successful in providing guidance and support for these children. Document uses Amachi as a model to show how faith-based organizations, secular nonprofits, and public organizations can work together to provide caring and trusting relationships for these children. Through Amachi, volunteers are recruited from congregations to mentor children of prisoners. Describes the need (the disastrous effect on children of a parent’s incarceration) and the response (a responsible mentoring program that benefits the children, the volunteers, and the community), outlines the planning and implementation that went into the Amachi program, and provides helpful resources as well as sample forms used in the Amachi program.

ISBN 1-929888-34-1, 64 pages, 2004