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4 The organisations purposes are: 4.1 To relieve poverty, hardship, suffering and distress among partners, children, families, and dependants of persons who have suffered a legal restriction on their liberty in any penal or correctional establishment or through any means whatsoever. 4.2 To advance education, and in particular to increase public awareness, understanding, and knowledge of the impacts on children and dependants when a parent or carer suffers a restriction of liberty. 4.3 To advance health, empowering members to provide evidence-based support and preventative services in recognition of the increased risk to long-term health, mental health, and wellbeing that the Adverse Childhood Experience of household imprisonment imposes and the need to prevent such adversities. 4.4 To save lives, providing members with support and advocacy to raise awareness and garner the political will nationally and internationally to prevent the increased vulnerability of children internationally to abandonment, exploitation, and violence when a parent or carer is incarcerated. and 4.5 To promote equality for children with an incarcerated parent so they may live lives free from stigma and discrimination.