Read about our coordination with Boone County's Economic Development Corporation to help provide jobs for reentrants, our efforts to combat pay day loans, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our February 2022 newsletter.
Read about our coordination with Boone County's Economic Development Corporation to help provide jobs for reentrants, our efforts to combat pay day loans, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our February 2022 newsletter.
Nancy Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. She was editor and later publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal, and then created a not-for-profit online news outlet for the four million wheelchair users in the U.S. As an award-winning journalist, Nancy uses her talents to promote efforts to fight the causes of overall poverty throughout our area while working to spread the specific message that second chance employment is lowering recidivism, changing lives, and raising families out of poverty.
Much news! From the South Bend Region that needs van transportation for reentrants to get back and forth to work, to meetings with new potential employer partners...Lots going on!
May 15, 2025
So much news: A big jobs expo attracts over 300 reentrants; 2CI's V.P. goes to college to teach some criminal justice students; and Fastenal's hiring people with no experience, will train! Plus Watch Netflix's UNLOCKED. Amazing! (So much more!)
April 15, 2025
A Pennsylvania prison put a bunch of mixed race, mixed conviction level felons into an experimental cell block that seems to have changed everything—themselves, the guards, and the future. This is the future!
Read all about it, and use the links to read this fascinating piece on how a change in how we run our prisons could be revolutionary. Also, today there's a waiting list of nine employers who need 12 vans now, with another 20 employers across the state who are in talks with our Transportation team regarding their coming needs. Grant money from the Federal Government is held up, plus, lots more.
