President's Emerging Engaged Scholarship
Project: Using Literacy to Increase Levels of Empathy Correctional Workers Feel Toward
Prisoners and Their Families
Award Recipient: Dr. Kyle Roberson
This university-community partnership aims to address the societal issue of low levels
of empathy among correctional workers towards incarcerated individuals and their families.
The project involves engaged scholarship, providing empathy training for correctional
workers, and implementing a family literacy program within federal prisons. The literacy
program is designed to help incarcerated parents bonding. This family literacy program
aims to improve parent-child connectedness for incarcerated parents and their children,
positively impacting emotional and behavioral development.
Award Recipient:
Award Recipient:
- Dr. Kyle Roberson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences Education (FCSE), College of Human Sciences
- April Bell
- Federal Bureau of Prisons

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