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About our guest … Julia Lazareck is the co-founder and president of Prison Families Alliance, Inc. (PFA). Julia got involved in Prison Families Alliance while her brother was incarcerated. Many families of incarcerated individuals struggle with keeping the family together. PFA provides multiple diverse support systems and communication platforms in order to keep the family together through the criminal justice process, thus safer communities and minimizing recidivism. After her brother passed while in prison Julia wrote a book and started a podcast called “Prison: The Hidden Sentence.” Her goal is to raise awareness and to create a more compassionate society about the effects of incarceration on families and children. Prison Families Alliance used to be called Friends and Families of Incarcerated Persons before they changed the name in 2021. Julia has lived in Las Vegas for 25 years and has been married to Les for 16 years. She has two dogs: Sage and Sierra.

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About our guest … Kelly Thomas-Boyers is the co-founder and board president

of Adam's Place. Adam’s Place is a Grief Center for Children and Families was

established in memory of Adam Gregory Thomas, Kelly’s son. Adam was a 21-

year-old college senior at the University of Nevada, Reno when he sustained

life-ending injuries from a car crash in Reno, Nevada in March of 2007.

Kelly returned to the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2007 in support of

memorial activities and the Adam Thomas Legislative Intern Scholarship. It was

there that she found a brochure for the Solace Tree Program, a grieving support

center for children, teens and adults in Reno. The idea of a place for her younger

son, Alec, to go and work through his grief made a great impact on her. Kelly set

out to find a similar program in Las Vegas upon her return, but couldn’t find one.

After intensive research, guidance from the executive director, Emilio Parga, of

Solace Tree in Reno, and many talks with social workers, doctors, nurses and

school counselors, Adam’s Place opened its doors in 2010 and has been serving

the Southern Nevada community ever since.

She brings over 25 years of business and healthcare experience to the board.

Her unwavering passion for Adam's Place is obvious in her work in the

community.