Contact: Diana Strand, OSLC, 541-485-2711
PORTLAND, OR — As part of its Oregon Lens series, Oregon Public Broadcasting will broadcast short films by University of Oregon students this week, including a documentary on the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) Children of Incarcerated Parents Project, which Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) staff members have been involved with since its inception earlier this decade. One outcome of the project that is highlighted in the documentary is the Parenting Inside Out (PIO), an OSLC parent management training program. PIO was developed and piloted during a three year collaboration between OSLC and DOC, and the impact of the program is currently being investigated in the five year National Institutes of Health-funded Parent Child Study. “What About Us? The Children of Incarcerated Parents Project” is part of the Oregon Documentary Project, which is led by Dr. Daniel Miller, School of Journalism and Communication Assistant Professor and award-winning documentary filmmaker. The broadcast will be August 29th at 10 p.m.