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Justice-Involved Programs

by Danny | Jan 16, 2019 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Recidivism

2nd Chance University is a non-profit dedicated to educating, employing, and empowering the justice-involved. Our 18-book, 4-6 month intensive programs take an aggressive interactive approach founded by trauma-informed care, behavioral modification, and consciousness...

Journey To An NP, Part 2

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...

Journey To A Non-Profit

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...

AMERICA: Land Of The (In)Visible

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...

Trauma Informed Care, Yesterday To Today

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...

1+1 Equals…..Well, That Depends

by Danny | Mar 30, 2018 | 2nd Chance University: Empowering the Justice-Involved, Inmate

Statistics and numbers have their uses, mostly depending upon the agenda spinners manipulating them. While numbers reveal much about a particular situation, the fact remains, they can also obscure things, creating more of a head-scratching event than a cerebral...