Second Chance 4 Youth provides the tools, support, environment, and post-incarceration career opportunities to those seeking to be productive citizens. We provide vocational training, counseling, mentoring, and leadership training. Highlighted throughout this initiative is the recognition of the blessing of being an American, where the concept of second chances is innate and within the core of its DNA.
Our emphasis is not on drugs, alcohol or crimes committed. Rather, we focus on behavior and learning to live a life of honesty, empathy, and accountability. Participants in our program represent some of society’s serious social problems. We have staff members and mentors that are living examples of the efficacy of the program. They themselves have done everything our juveniles are asked to do. Thus, they have the credibility to show the juveniles how to change as they have done.
Qualified juveniles must be willing to commit to a process of personal change. We ask that our participants not just be responsible for their own growth – but take on the responsibility for the growth of others and the community as well. Each step empowers them to help others along the way. We want to create a mindset that you are responsible, caring for and helping others.
All of our juvenile participants apply to SC4Y voluntarily. All that is required is a strong desire to change and a willingness to do whatever is asked of them to bring about change. We encourage and assist all of our students to receive an education, acquire marketable vocational and social skills; and earn the self-respect necessary to let go of their past. For most, this is the most difficult thing they have ever done.