The United Community Action Network (U-CAN) an outreach organization at SCI-Graterford, has created a program called Fathers and Children Together (F.A.C.T). This initiative allows fathers to spend quality time in a one-on-one setting with their children or grandchild, to discuss some of the issues affecting their lives, such as education, bullying, and trauma, i.e., the pain and suffering a child experiences due to their father's incarceration. Children desperately need guidance, love, and support from both parents (co-parenting), and even grandparents, regardless if their circumstances. Some fathers who are incarcerated have come to terms with the fact that they have left children in an extremely bad situation. Many of them know what it is like not to have their father present in their own lives, and they realize that they were looking for that father figure in the streets. They see what and where that has led them to, and they do not want that misfortune to befall their child or their grandchild. The F.A.C.T program empowers incarcerated fathers to make a positive difference in their children's lives by helping to steer them in the right direction. allows children to bond with their fathers or grandfathers through arts and crafts activities provided by the Mural Arts Program. A Key component of the program is the professional counselors who will be present to address sensitive issues that the children and/or mothers deal with on a daily basis, or that may arise during the visits or conference dinners.
