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Jim Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. After a decade as the founding president of National Christian Foundation Indiana following several years developing a chain of Business Journals across the country, he and his wife, Nancy, were led to serve those coming out of long term incarceration by helping them find and keep jobs that pay a living wage. Jim and Nancy believe that, through the dignity of work, reentrants' lives can be changed and their families can be lifted out of poverty.
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"Imagine if the worst day of your life defined you forever"
--Michelle Cirocco
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"No one raises their hand when asked if they had a dad at home"
--Larry Logsdon, Director of Individual Care Services, Marion County Adult Detention Center
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"It is easy to begin a thing, but God is looking for finishers!"
--Joyce Meyer
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"A little over two weeks after I got out of jail, I was given a second chance—and that opportunity changed my life."
—Jeremy Hayse
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"Our criminal justice system is filled with people who need mental health and substance use care to prevent them from re-entering the system..."
--Debra A. Pinals, M.D.
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"My life was created with purpose and meaning. Today I am a new creation and I pledge my life to serve Jesus Christ…"
—Michael Tunstall, DOC #210343
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"We are not your children's keepers. You are! Parents and guardians have got to step up, a kid is dead tonight."
--IMPD Chief Chris Bailey
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"I'm privileged to have experienced incarceration."
—Jason Lee Bayles #A302843
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"I believed a lot of the enemy's lies over the years, [I believed] that I would never amount to anything, I was a nobody and could never achieve anything…"
—Trish
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—Anonymous
