Office of Outreach & Engagement

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Community Partner(s): a) PEP Communities Program: municipalities, schools, adult education programs, family resource centers, youth service bureaus and b) PEP CI (Correctional Institutions) state agency, correctional facilities

Demographics: underserved, parents, Hispanic, Latinex, Portuguese

School or College: College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources

Campus Affiliation: UConn Extension County

Berlin

Program Description

UConn Extension PEP Communities Program
The UConn PEP Communities Program is for adults and older teens. The program is designed to build on the participants’ unique strengths and life experiences and emphasizes the connection between individual and community action. Because the UConn PEP Communities Program is adaptable to various settings, the program is offered throughout the state in schools, at family resource centers, community agencies, and faith-based communities.

UConn Extension PEPCI (PEP at Correctional Institutions) Program
For over twenty years, UConn Extension has partnered with the Department of Corrections to offer the UConn People Empowering People Program at Correctional Institutions (UConn PEPCI). UConn PEPCI is a personal and family leadership program modeled after the community UConn People Empowering People (UConn PEP Communities Program) and focuses on keeping people from returning to prison.
The program encourages inmates to be self-reflective and to draw on their unique strengths, life experiences, and capacities. UConn PEPCI volunteers create conditions for offenders to develop the willingness and ability to take responsibility for their lives and become empowered.