Jerry Buie MSW, LCSW, Director of Pride Counseling
Jerry has been providing counseling services since 1994 when he graduated from the U of Utah. Jerry's work experience include providing sex offender therapy for the Utah Department of Corrections, Intermountain Specialized Abuse Treatment (ISAT) Center and for other private providers. He has written educational classes on Victim Empathy, Anger Management and working with Gay and Lesbian Clients. He has presented throughout the State on Victim Empathy issues as well as Gay and Lesbian mental health issues. Jerry presently works for the Division of Child and Family Services as a family therapist. He has been providing therapy to the Gay and Lesbian community for several years and has addressed issues such as sexuality, identity, relationships, conflict resolution, spirituality and religion as well as coming out issues. Jerry has been running successful Gay Men Support Groups continually since 1998.
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Stephanie Depaoli MSW, LCSW
After spending 12 years in the bar business, Stephanie decided to get a higher education by entering the University of Utah full time. She pursued a degree in Economics and Sociology, with a Criminal Justice Certification. In 1988 she graduated from the University with a dual Bachelors Degree. In the fall of 1988 she entered graduate school, received her Masters degree in Social Work.
She applied for and was hired to work as a sex offender therapist for an agency, ISAT. There began her passion for sex offender work with offenders, families and victims. During her 10 years at ISAT she not only did therapy but became the director of clinical services.
During her years at ISAT, Stephanie became intimately involved with the Department of Corrections and the Department of Child and Family Services. She did pre-sentence investigations, plethysmograph’s (the measure of sexual arousal), individual, group, family, and couples therapy. She has written sex offender treatment programs for adults and juveniles, and has spoken at 2 national conferences on the issues of sex offender treatment. She has been a director over clinical services at a half-way house for sex offenders, and has worked at the prison with sex offenders, testifying in adult and juvenile sex offender cases.
n 2002, she began working for Jerry Buie who introduced her to a new group of sex offenders, the homosexual offender. She has spent the last 4 years learning and treating this population under his guidance.
Today, she not only works with gay and non-gay offenders, she also works with couples, families and the Healthy Self-Expression offenders. She have gained a greater understanding of the gay community and issues revolving around HIV and many other issues within the community.
Throughout the years, she has narrowed her focus of expertise to working with the rape offenders. Many of these men have been incarcerated for more than 10 years. Issues related to entering society are paramount to their success. Stephanie also understands that if the cycles of sex offending is not stopped, the offending will continue from one generation to the next.
Molly G. Prince, MSW, LCSW
Molly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who received her Master in Social Work Degree from the University of Utah in 1998. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Weber State University. She has volunteered and worked in the social services arena in various capacities since 1990. She was a cofounder and member of the board of directors of the former Center for Indian Resources, Culture, and Life Enrichment, Inc. (C.I.R.C.L.E. Center) in Ogden, Utah between 1990 and 1993. She has worked in skills development with the seriously and persistently mentally ill.
Ms. Prince is an Approved Sex Offender Treatment Provider through the Utah Department of Corrections. She began working with sexual abuse victims and sexual offenders in 1996. She was Program Specialist for ISAT’s Sex Offender Treatment Program at the Dept. of Corrections’ Day Reporting Center in Salt Lake City. She was employed as the Program Director for the Center for Family Development’s contract with the UDC’s Sex Offender Treatment Program at Fremont Community Correctional Center from 2001 to 2002, and at the UDC Day Reporting Center /Adult Probation and Parole Sex Offender Treatment Program in Salt Lake City, Utah for four years. Molly has developed sex offender treatment programming for special needs clients including developmentally delayed, mentally ill, and ESL clients. Her focus of treatment is primarily adult sexual offenders of various cognitive capabilities and cultural backgrounds. She is a member of NASW, ATSA (Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers), and sits on Utah’s Sex Offender Programming Task Force.
Her work on the task force and with families torn apart by incest and sexual abuse inspired Ms. Prince to begin researching and developing guidelines for appropriate and successful reunification between victims, perpetrators, and families. She developed “Reunification of sexual Abusers and Children and Their Families” and over the past six years she has presented and facilitated trainings for the Treatment Providers, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Child and Family Services, and the Generations Conference on the suggested guidelines and protocols for re-contact and reunification of families affected by sexual abuse.
Molly has been involved in helping people for many years. She has been involved in the organization and/or administration of various non-profit organizations and provided service to the community in a variety of capacities.
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