More Than A RAP Sheet - HOPE Mentor Program

Client Centered Programs: 

HER Empowerment and Resiliency Program (HER Case Management Program) : 

HER C.M. Program is an evidence - based model including the following principles and practices: Gender Makes a Difference; Client - Centered; Trauma Informed and Responsive; Relational; Culturally Responsive; Strength - Based; Limitless; and Economically Empowering. 

The client drives this program, deciding how often t hey need our support to navigate all of the obstacles in their lives: violence, homelessness, incarceration, addiction, mental illness, food and clothing needs, safe long term housing opportunities, family reunification, as well as navigating all of the support available in their community to meet those needs. HER Program clients receive weekly and then monthly case management for a minimum of 12 months (with the possibility of extending that if needed to 24 months ) and will have access to limitless Journey of Hope support as needed. They usually start with weekly conversations until they are housed and working, and in active recovery or with a therapist and medical professionals. Then we taper to monthly meetings, to check in and see if they need support . 

Additionally, we have relationships with several trauma informed therapy groups, coordinating services through the Trauma Informed Utah (TIU) and Utah's Trauma Informed Care Network (UTICN) providers networks, to ensure they are vetted and trained in the best evidence practices and programs to serve our survivors.  The old ways of doing talk therapy (top down/brain down therapy) is very painful and takes a very long time to process very painfully; the new modalities of Somatic/Body Embodied (Bottom UP) Trauma Remediation Modalities are faster and can remediate symptoms and start the brain and body healing much quicker, including:  EMDR (eye movement desensitization), Thought Field Therapy, Tapping, Breath-work, Ecstatic Dance, Transcendental Meditation, and many many more embodied therapies, even including some amazing work being done with Psilocybin mushrooms, Ayawaska and other Native American delivered plant based medicines delivered with spiritual rituals under the supervision of trained shaman and staff and other hallucinogenic compounds in a therapeutic setting, in collaboration with talk therapy.  

HOPE Prison Mentoring Program : 

This program was the first program implemented by Journey of Hope in 2014, with 17% recidivism in three years. Community Volunteers are trained in the Women’s Case Management Model to follow Gender Responsive Guiding Principles, evidence - based principles. They are matched in pairs with a woman 3 - 6 months prior to her release from prison and they meet weekly or bi - weekly with the woman on a plan for her success when she walks out and back into the community. They then help her transition and are with her for up to 12 months while she overcomes barriers to housing, employment, treatment, reunification with children and safe family. This program has assisted hundreds of women walking out of the Utah State Prison, the State Journey of Hope, Inc. Program + Services Overview Fiscal Year s 2024 | 2025 rate of recidivism is the highest in the nation at 80%. Our 17% rate shows that when women are safe, can make a livable wage, have access to trauma informed therapy, housing, and support they are powerfully resilient! We have saved the State taxpayers millions of dollars over the last five and a half years with this program.

This program is now being extended to the men's side of the prison.  We are collaborating with our DAY WON family, other formerly incarcerated lived experience experts in the community, and the GOD SQUAD (a collaboration of Christian Church Ministers), the Catholic Church, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to support as many as would like a mentor to walk them out of the Utah State Prison - in coordinate with the Utah Department of Corrections.  This is a brand new program since the move to the new Salt Lake City prison site.