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  Project AVARY supports children & youth with incarcerated parents in developing the skills, confidence, and positive life views that promote healthy personal development and responsibility to community.
  
  We're a regional organization, serving young people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. This allows AVARY participants to remain in the program, even if their home placement or living situation changes.
  
  
  The Need for AVARY
  865,000 Children in California have a parent in prison, on parole, or on probation.
  
  Research tells us that kids whose parents have been or are currently in prison:
  
  * May show signs of depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder
  * Are at higher risk for drug and alcohol addiction and teen parenthood
  * Are more likely to end up in juvenile detention than their peers
  * Can be angry and distrustful of adults
  * Often experience abuse and/or neglect
  * Struggle in school
  * Feel socially isolated
  
  
  History
  
  The project is the result of a collaboration between Chaplain Earl Smith of San Quentin State Prison and our founder, Danny Rifkin.
  
  In 1998, while working together on a different project, Chaplain Smith remarked to Rifkin that in all his work with inmates and their families, it was the children who most often failed to get much needed attention.
  
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