RSVP for Madison-area Urban Ministry Annual Meeting

Please join Madison-area Urban Ministry (MUM) in celebrating 45 years of inspiring social good and investing in community on April 24.  

MUM’s many programs inspire hope for individuals returning to the Dane County community after incarceration by breaking down the barriers that prevent them from fully participating in our community and the lives of their families. In addition, MUM supports families of those incarcerated through three programs. These programs help bring wholeness and healing to individuals and their families.

Reading Connections- Offers parents whose children reside too far away for regular visits, an opportunity to bond with their child and encourage their reading.

Family Connections- Provides opportunities to maintain and strengthen relationships within families affected by incarceration. This program keeps critical parent-child connections strong by organizing regular monthly visits between imprisoned mothers and their children

Mentoring Connections- Mentoring Connections matches youth impacted by parental incarceration with a caring, adult mentor. 

Emcee for the event: The Honorable Judge Everett Mitchell

Keynote Speaker: Dr.JULIE A POEHLMANN-TYNAN. 

Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, PhD, is the Dorothy A. O’Brien Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she has been on the faculty since 1999. Through her social justice scholarship, outreach, and policy efforts during the past 15 years, Dr. Poehlmann-Tynan has brought attention to how mass incarceration in the U.S. has created a public health crisis for children and their families. She has conducted several ground-breaking studies on the development of young children with incarcerated mothers and fathers, most recently focusing on children's contact with incarcerated parents and visits to corrections facilities. She has conducted several ground-breaking studies on the development of young children with incarcerated mothers and fathers, most recently focusing on children's contact with incarcerated parents and visits to corrections facilities. Dr. Poehlmann-Tynan served as an advisor to Sesame Street to develop and evaluate their Emmy-nominated initiative to support children with incarcerated parents called Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration. She has conducted several program evaluations related to interventions with children with incarcerated parents, including the Mentoring program offered by MUM.

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