About Us

Utah Reintegration Program (URP), founded December 4, 2019, a project of Save the Kids, is a large Utah statewide multi-level comprehensive community-based coalition of agencies, programs, and organizations dedicated to (1) ending the recidivism of adults and youth incarcerated, (2) foster alternatives to incarceration, and (3) addressing the root social causes of incarceration.

Grounded in critical re/integration studies, URP:

1.Starts inside incarcerated locations (prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities);

2.Supports with (1) life skills and conflict transformation, (2) job readiness and business inclusion, (3) health and well-being; and (4) college, university, trades, skills, and high school education;

3.Grounded in culture and community of people that are caught in the system and were incarcerated (it has to be culturally and community sensitive); and

4.Works to address systemic root issues within the criminal justice system of incarceration and society.

All the Areas of Re/Integration

Goal

1.Decrease Recidivism

2.Graduate All Participants in Higher Education

3.Participants having part-time or full-time employment

4.Creating alternatives to incarceration

5.Fostering among participants, businesses, and the community conflict transformation and life skills for those reintegrating from incarceration.

6.Business, colleges, schools, universities, and nonprofits to be more aware and inclusive of people formerly incarcerated.

7.Provide more and better community-based mental health and substance recovery services.