Second Chance-Last Opportunity is a very special organization that works with an invisible population who has no where else to turn. Our approach is personal, assessing people’s needs and working with them through counseling, life skill classes, and referrals. In addition to counseling and classes, on any given day we can be found giving out emergency food, toiletries, or diapers to someone in desperate need, or finding shoes for someone who only has flip flops to wear to an interview, or helping someone with the paperwork to apply for housing, or taking young people to a local nursing home to boost their confidence and make the residents feel special, and on and on.
The unique and wide scope of our services makes it hard for those outside to instantly grasp what the organization does. SNN Local News 6 is ‘shining a light’ on our agency all next week, and we hope you will catch some of the news stories and PSAs that will be airing between July 29th and August 2nd, repeated on Saturday, August 3rd. You’ll see some of our classes, our youth program, former clients who have worked so hard to turn their lives around, our board members and most importantly, you should come away with an all round picture of this special organization and the work we do. Equally important, you will learn how you can become a part of Second Chance through volunteering, donating, and sharing your expertise.
We are grateful to SNN for their professionalism, compassion, and generosity, and hope you will tune in next week to Comcast Channel 6 and Verizon Channel 26.