Supporting Youth with Incarcerated Parents

Tre Maison Dasan is an intimate portrait of three boys growing up in Rhode Island, each with a parent in prison. Each boy is very different, possessing different attributes and surrounded by different environments. Told directly through the child’s perspective, this award-winning documentary is an exploration of relationships and separation, masculinity, and coming of age in America when a parent is behind bars.

Recognized as an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), parental incarceration is experienced by 1 in 14 children in the U.S. at one point in their lives. This collection was designed with the help of several SFUSD educators to guide classroom discussions helping to combat stigma and misperceptions around children and families of the incarcerated.