OLYMPIA, WA – The United States Children's Bureau (CB) has released Building Community, Building Hope, the inaugural film in a planned series aimed at documenting what's working across the country to help prevent child maltreatment and promote child well-being.

In Washington, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Early Learning (DEL) joined together in a special partnership featured on the film, which focuses on innovative programs working to engage parents transitioning from confinement to communities and form the improved partnerships needed to ensure the safety and well-being of their children and families.

The video highlights some of the impacts of incarceration on children and families, and an innovative and unlikely partnership that has reached a sometimes overlooked population of children. Washington's Parent Sentencing Alternative is a law that allows eligible, incarcerated participants to remain or return home with their children to serve their sentence while receiving wrap-around services benefitting the family.

[For the full press release from the Department of Corrections and the Department of Early Learning, go to http://www.doc.wa.gov/news/2017/03292017p.htm

The 20 minute film is also saved in the Videos section.]