In this 50 In 52 Journey interview Scott talks about how, while turning his own life around, he began volunteering and helping others and soon discovered that ‘the system’ wasn’t designed to help those who needed it. Taking a page out of his book “Tell me no, I dare you”, Scott began a non profit to help those who were homeless and former prisoners find jobs. Scott reminds us in this interview that:
“To really get systemic change and to get people empowered and give them tools to allow them to be successful, we cannot keep doing what we’ve always done because we’ll continue to get what we’ve always got.”
Second Chance is doing just that. In a state that has an 80% recidivism rate, Second Chance is able to boast that it’s program has over 70% of it’s clients staying out of prison and trouble. By tackling difficult problems in new, innovative ways, Second Chance’s system is moving the community, the state, and perhaps one day, the whole country forward…
“The goal is to take our model state wide in California and eventually go national with it because it’s simple, it’s straightforward, it makes sense, the tax payer saves money, people get empowered, families get back together again, we create new tax payers, they get access to health care, and communities are better that they ever were because people now are becoming passionate stakeholders…”
