The Ferrer Foundation and its aspirational Keeping the Peace Project were founded upon the premise that children of incarcerated parents – who are so often misunderstood, insensitively labeled and judged – deserve a genuine advocate that will provide them with an opportunity to shine from within. With guidance from expert counselors, peers, leaders and inspiring educational activities, we have constructed a comprehensive, 12-month program that places the child’s needs, hopes and dreams at its heart.

Though they have committed no crime, the lives of children with an incarcerated parent are too often shaped by the same cycle of recidivism that ensnares their parents, leaving them bound by poverty, violence, uncertainty and deprivation.