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This toolkit details the key considerations for jail administrators and community-based organizations interested in developing a family-focused jail program. Program components may include parenting classes, parent-child contact visits, and phone calls during which parents are “coached” by staff members about how to speak with their children. Family-focused jail programs aim to strengthen the bond between parent and child, ensure that parent–child interactions during jail visits are beneficial for the children, and allow parents to be involved in parenting decisions, which helps minimize the trauma that children face when their parents are removed from the home and detained in jail.