AFH identifies needs and advocates solutions for the children of incarcerated parents by:

• Educating and mobilizing the community

• Empowering affected families

• Influencing public policy​​

 

Our Mission is to provide information about resources available to strengthen families impacted by incarceration. As a community benefit organization, comprised of various network participants, we value listening, advocating, educating, networking to serve children with a parent in prison.

 

We are committed to the children, caregivers, families, and communities affected by the issue of a parent being incarcerated. We are a voice for the 3,000 children in Lancaster County who have a parent in prison and often go unnoticed.

 

We are committed to ending the cycle of crime which affects our community by providing these children, and their caregivers, with the necessary resources to empower communities to be the change they wish to see.

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Ambassadors for Hope Advisory Council
Mary Glazier, Chair
Tracy Rennecker, Treasurer
Jen Strasenburgh, Secretary
Derrick Burch
Tara Loew
Amy Marenick
Samantha Sweigart

Shaniqua Ballard