Second chance program

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The Second Chance Program is a unique social rehabilitation model in the criminal justice system that offers drug rehabilitation as well as education and self-respect components to help reduce criminal behavior. The program delivered to offenders in secure settings additionally provides Social Workers to help transition and reintegrate the offender back into society.

The six to eight-month program teaches self-control, critical reasoning, development of moral reasoning skills, development of life skills, self-esteem, problem solving and coping resources.

It uses no alternate drugs. The SCP achieves cost effective results in a therapeutic community setting, using peer supported manualized education protocols as well as a long-range nutritional and sauna based detoxification programs.

The Second Chance Program is comprised of four key modules:

Drug Rehabilitation Module

Education Module

Self-Respect Module

Life Skills Module

Independent university studies show over a 5-year period that criminal recidivism has dropped to less than 10% for those who have participated prior to release in at least one third of the Second Chance Program.

These results have been achieved at extremely low cost in comparison to the traditional attempts at combined drug and crime rehabilitation using expensive, medically oriented chronic drug therapy and third party counseling.

The Second Chance Program, Inc. is a non-profit organization, which originally piloted this highly successful program in Mexico. As a private provider, it has run the Second Chance Program in five secure institutional settings in the US and Mexico.

Through a licensing agreement with Criminon International, the Second Chance Program, Inc. uses manuals in the field of education as well as drug and criminal rehabilitation based upon research by American researcher and humanitarian, L. Ron Hubbard. These manuals have been evaluated by the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and compare favorably to best practice in the criminal justice field.