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Evaluating the Efficacy of a Parenting Program for Incarcerated Mothers

Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky

Life course theory supports strengthening incarcerated mothers' parenting skills and parent–child relationships to help both inmate mothers and their children. Prison parenting programs address this need. This study evaluates the efficacy of the parenting program at a Southern correctional institution for women in changing inmate mothers' parenting knowledge and skills. A pretest–posttest nonequivalent comparison group quasi-experimental design was used to assess short-term change in knowledge after 12-week parent education courses. Paired sample t tests of parenting class participants' (n = 64) Time 1 and Time 2 scores on two parenting inventories suggest significant positive change likely resulting from the parent education program. No significant change was indicated in a comparison group (n = 26) of inmate mothers.

Key Words: incarcerated mothers • parenting skills • prison parenting program • efficacy

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