Utah Prisoner Advocate Network
UPAN | A nonprofit community advocacy group supporting the families of Utah inmates.
UPAN Meeting - October 2017 A retired AP&P officer shares his thoughts and advice for felons and their families navigating life after serving time in prison. Free and open to the public.
UPAN Meeting - November 2017 Open family meeting. Free and open to the public.
UPAN Monthly Meeting TOPIC: Sex Offenders on Parole by Molly Prince, LCSW An overview of what to expect when a person with a sex offense paroles in terms of parole stipulations, restrictions, therapy. Includes a brief overview of prison treatment requirements. Handouts will be available, and it will be on UPAN’s Facebook Live with powerpoint. […]
Steve Turley with the Utah Department of Corrections along with Kevin Miller of GSBS Architects will be giving us an update on the new Utah State Correctional Facility design and construction. Free and open to the public.
Faye Jenkins & Wendy Parmley will present on Utah’s Sex Offender Registry and the work they are doing with Utah’s Legislature. Also invited to speak from the national level are Jeff Miller from NARSOL and Pamela Sorensen from WAR. Michael McAinsh and Ernie Rogers will provide some updates regarding the UDC as well as the proposed Supervision Length Guidelines.
Utah's Parole Re-Entry Program with Utah Department of Corrections - AP&P Directors Eric Barker and Bart Mortensen.
October's UPAN Meeting will be a private family meeting. We will not be broadcasting on Facebook Live. Come to share your experiences with other supporters of incarcerated persons, offer advice, or just listen if you like. These meetings are therapeutic in nature and offered in a safe environment. It also serves to give the UPAN organizers an opportunity to take the pulse of the community and come up with useful future meeting topics. Free and open to the public.
UPAN Monthly Meeting Topic: Family Meeting. Free and open to the public.
Please join the Utah Prisoner Advocate Network (UPAN) for our regular monthly meeting. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Cindy Fierros, Associate Director of Programming for the University of Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP). She will be discussing UPEP initiatives in higher education for the incarcerated, as well as available programs and volunteering opportunities. UPAN will be streaming the event on Facebook Live. Free and open to the public.
UPAN Monthly Meeting Greg Hendrix LCSW and Deputy Director of the Utah Department of Corrections Programming and Angela Hendrix, a therapist for substance abuse will present Level of Services Inventory / Risk Needs Responsivity (LS/RNR). LS/RNR is a set of assessment criteria used by public safety organizations to determine an offender's risk of recidivism, and […]
UPAN Monthly Meeting Please come and discuss issues specific to female inmates in Utah. Free and open to the public.
UPAN Monthly Meeting Stephanie Puffer of Bristol Hospice and Utah Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (UHPCO) will discuss possibilities for hospice services at the new Utah State Correctional Facility currently under construction and slated for completion by 2022. Free and open to the public.
