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In collaboration with NIC, Urban’s methodology to determine which practices to highlight included a literature review and a scan of practice by leveraging professional networks, a culling publicly available information online, and conducting telephone interviews with program staff members in 40 organizations and agencies. Through this process, we worked with NIC to identify three locations: New York City; Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and San Francisco, California. b Those locations had efforts that were focused on children of justice-involved parents and that seemed to be promising and worth disseminating to a larger audience through this project.

The three locations were selected because they had stakeholders from nonprofit organizations and government agencies working together for children of justice-involved individuals. Thus, selecting them offered us the opportunity to gain a diversity of perspectives and to learn about their public–private partnerships. Those jurisdictions also allowed us to gather information about how a single location can target parental involvement across each stage of the criminal justice continuum, including arrest, pretrial detention, and sentencing.