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Fasnacht Day on Tuesday found these women busy preparing hundreds of fat,
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Weller display a tray full of golden brown fasnachts—fresh from the fryer at Minnich’s
Bakery of Lltltz. According to tradition, fasnachts were made to use up the lard and
yeast the day before Lent season, which marks fasting and self denial. Photo by Connlo
Buekwaltor.
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Program Helps Prisoners
Learn To Be
Better Parents
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Being a good parent is a
tough job, especially from inside a
jail cell. But an educational pro
gram in Dauphin County aims to
help inmates get closer to their
children as they learn what it takes
to be a good parent.
Parents and Their Children at
Home, or PATCH, helps inmates
maintain contact with their chil
dren while learning parenting
skills in the classroom. A joint ef
fort of Penn State Cooperative Ex
tension in Dauphin County and
the Dauphin County Prison in
Harrisburg, PATCH will be offer
ed three times in the first six
months of 1994.
Since it started in 1990,36 par
ents and 50 children have com
pleted the program. “These par
ents need counseling in parenting
skills because many don’t know '
what good parenting means,” says
Mary Laeger-Hagemeister, exten
sion agent and program coordina
tor.
“In general, they had a bad
home life. They may have come
from abusive homes or their own
parents may have been in jail.
Children of incarcerated parents
are six times more likely to be in
carcerated themselves. By helping
prisoners learn to be better par
ents, we hope to stop this cycle
from repeating itself in the next
generation.”
The program also aims to rein
force the children’s sense of con
tinuity and security. “These kids
need to know that mommy or dad
dy still loves them, even if that
parent made a mistake,” Laeger-
Hagemeister says. “PATCH staff
will meet with the children as a
group throughout the program to
teach them skills and try to boost
their self-esteem.”
The program lasts two months.
Parents start by sending their chil
dren worksheets or project papers,
which the children fill out and re
turn to their parent. The parent
writes comments or places a stick
er on the page and returns to to the
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child, boosting the child’s self-es
teem.
At the same time, parents attend
class for two hours a day, five
days a week, studying CPR, fire
safety, children’s literature and
toys, discipline, self-esteem, the
importance of playing with chil
dren, illnesses, and nutrition. The
inmates also receive information
about family support programs
available after release.
Then the parents get to apply
what they’ve learned during two
supervised contact visits with their
children. “Very few prisoners ac
tually see their children, so this is
a rare opportunity for them,”
Laeger-Hagemeister says. “They
usually must communicate by
telephone or from behind glass.”
The first visit is planned by
PATCH program staff and in
cludes practicing skills the parents
learned in class. Parents them
selves plan the second contact vis
it, with staff supervision.
Laeger-Hagemeister document
ed the PATCH program on a
videotape, which she has shared
with the Pennsylvania Association
of Adult Education, Penn State’s
Celebrate the Family Symposium,
the National Association of Exten
sion Home Economists, and the
National Association of Correc
tional Officers. She has received
several requests for assistance in
establishing similar programs in
other communities.
In 1993, Laeger-Hagemeisier
received one of six national Flor
ence Hall Awards presented by
the' National Association of Exten
sion Home Economists. The
award is granted to home econom
ists who involve people in out
standing programs that address
new concerns of families. She also
received the DeWitt Wallace
Reader’s Digest Youth-At-Risk
Award, which recognizes exten
sion agents who conduct programs
for youth and families at risk.
Laeger-Hagemeister was recog
nized for the PATCH program’s
impact on children.
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