by Danny | Apr 27, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Incarceration, Prison, Reentry, Second Chance
If you have not checked out the previous submission, you may feel a bit out-paced. Either way, here goes the second part as the journey to a Non Profit continues… Since 2012 I’ve expanded our non-profit to support three justice-involved categories: Youth reintegration...
by Danny | Apr 18, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Alternative to Incarceration, Reentry
Grew up eye-shot of La Tuna, Federal Correctional Institution, in Vinton, Texas. Living close enough to be part of the environment, I wondered what it was like to be on the inside. Pushing several years into the future, I became a 16-year old outfielder with a family...
by Danny | Apr 11, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Reentry, Second Chance
Writing provided by Duck who spent 13 years incarcerated; now finding a home as contributor and facilitator/trainer with 2nd Chance University, a non-profit dedicated to those who have stumbled. For those who have been (or are currently) justice-involved, being...
by Danny | Apr 5, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Alternative to Incarceration, Reentry, Second Chance, Youth Empowerment
Being a non-profit working with young and old adults involved within the criminal justice system, we hear the term Trauma Informed Care more often than not. As a matter of fact, the term, especially when dealing with alternatives to incarceration, our criminal justice...
by Danny | Apr 3, 2018 | Prison, Reentry, Release
Last time we stopped abruptly in the middle of Steven’s story, time to check out how his CHE Quotient — not too worry, for those not in the CHE Quotient know, you will soon. Looking at the numbers, Steven had no chance…but you can’t always bet on the numbers… What...