ICPA’s Practice Transfer Advisory Committee Workshop: 2025 Focus on Peer Mentoring and Peer Support in Correctional Practice

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Frank Porporino, Andrew Hundley, and Öznur Yildiz (PID304)

Authors

Frank Porporino

Member of the Practice Transfer Advisory Committee, ICPA, Canada

Frank Porporino has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has sustained a close to 50-year career in corrections as a front-line practitioner, senior manager, researcher, educator, trainer, and consultant. Frank has promoted evidence-informed practice throughout his career and his contributions have been recognized with awards from a number of associations including the ACA, ICCA, Volunteers of America and the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA). Frank’s public sector career began in 1974 as a psychologist in Canada’s oldest maximum-security prison, Kingston Penitentiary. He went on to establish the Research Branch of Corrections Canada, an internationally recognized leader in applied research in corrections that has recently celebrated its 35th Anniversary. In 1993, Frank co-founded T3 Associates Consulting Inc. in order to provide research-based training and technical assistance to correctional jurisdictions and social service agencies internationally. He has remained active providing training and technical assistance in effective practice in over 25 countries, most recently in Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Japan and Namibia. Frank was also a founding member of the HMMPS Correctional Services Accreditation Panel, a best practice review committee that was subsequently emulated by many jurisdictions internationally. Currently, Frank is serving as Editor of the ICPA practitioner-oriented Journal, Advancing Corrections, Chair of the ICPA R&D Network, member of the ICPA Practice Transfer Advisory Committee and Board Member of the ICPA-North America Chapter. He has been a member of many ACA Committees, was a past member of the ICPA Board of Directors and is also Past-President of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP).

Andrew Hundley

CEO, Louisiana Parole Project, United States

Andrew carries many titles: husband, father, college graduate, advocate, and nonprofit leader. But it was not that long ago when he carried the label “juvenile lifer.”

In June 2016, Andrew became the first juvenile lifer in Louisiana to be paroled following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Miller and Montgomery decisions that prohibited the mandatory sentencing of children to life without parole. It was clear that he was not the same 15-year-old who went to prison in 1997. While incarcerated Andrew completed numerous programs and college courses, served as a leader in multiple prisoner organizations, and taught self-help and re-entry classes.

He co-founded Louisiana Parole Project in August 2016 to provide advocacy and reentry support to men and women deserving of redemption. Under his leadership, the organization has expanded its scope to promote second chance hiring, offer direct legal representation, and provide housing opportunities to people coming home from prison. Andrew earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology from Louisiana State University and completed his Master of Criminology and Justice from Loyola University New Orleans, where he is now adjunct faculty. He is also a Galaxy Gives fellow and a Represent Justice Ambassador.

Öznur Yildiz

Clinical Psychologist, Maltepe Juvenile and Youth Closed Prison, Türkiye

Öznur Yıldız holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Uludağ University and a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Maltepe University. Since 2012, she has been working at the Directorate General of Prisons and Detention Houses under the Ministry of Justice, conducting individual and group interventions in addiction and rehabilitation with adults and juvenile offenders in correctional facilities. She has also participated in various projects carried out within the Ministry of Justice. Her academic interests include the effectiveness of addiction intervention programs, psychoanalysis, and gender studies, and she has actively participated in numerous conferences, seminars, and workshops in these fields.

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