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.
In this Newsletter, four free videos are available to help other employers learn how to hire and train people coming out of incarceration, produced by Volumod and Renewing Management. Also, KeHE Distributors located in Elletsville, IN, need van support to hire reentrants: 2CI is working on it! Plus, walk in the shoes of a reentrant. Read about MCRC's Reentry Simulation event!
Addressing Hendricks County's labor shortage with reentrant labor. Also, artificial intelligence is being used to provide reentry support and contacts to agencies and information. They have identified the No.1 barrier to adequate labor is lack of reliable and affordable transportation and are working with 2nd Chance Indiana.
YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUIT:
570% Growth in 2nd Chance IN Website Stats
In only five months since 2nd Chance Indiana premiered its new jobs website and programs, the demand and growth has been amazing. Let's just say, things are getting Big, Fast.
