PROVO, Utah – Two Utah business leaders on Thursday donated $100,000 to a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit that helps Utahns experiencing homelessness or recovering from drug addiction.
The Other Side Academy provides a two-and-a-half-year residential program meant to give its students, many of whom have been incarcerated, “valuable vocational skills” while also offering “something completely different than incarceration and short-term drug treatment,” according to Managing Director Dave Durocher, who himself has been to prison four times for a total of 15 years.
