In the land of the imprisoned, a need is now being met by Sesame Street.
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Sesame Street: Incarceration
iOS Universal
The Sesame Street: Incarceration app provides parents and caregivers with tools to help children ages 3-8 cope with the many transitions related to a parent’s incarceration.
Features include:
•Tip Books providing parents and caregivers with age-appropriate language to talk honestly with children (3–8) as well as strategies to help children cope with a parent’s incarceration
•Videos featuring real families and Sesame Street Muppets
•An interactive storybook and photo activity for caregivers to use with children
•Suggestions for additional support and educational resources
We recommend you use the tools and watch the videos before sharing them with your children so that you can choose what is most relevant and helpful for your family.
Resources in this app are part of Sesame Street’s Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration initiative. You can access additional project materials online, at sesamestreet.org/incarceration.
It is not as if a valid service is not being provided here. There is, noble even. It does, though, make me very sad to imagine the real world use of this app.
It would seem that we could avoid the necessity of this by imprisoning less people in the first place. We are incarcerating entirely too many people in America.
We should not need to explain to 1-in-28 kids the ins-and-outs of the prison-industrial complex and why mommy or daddy is no longer in the home. Family values should not take a backseat to our Justice-for-profit system.
Cowen Thorne
(Shock and Awed)