{"id":2749,"date":"2010-01-16T15:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T20:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/chance-changing-homes-and-neighborhoods-challenging-everyone.html"},"modified":"2013-10-10T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:15:02","slug":"chance-changing-homes-and-neighborhoods-challenging-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/chance-changing-homes-and-neighborhoods-challenging-everyone.html","title":{"rendered":"CHANCE: Changing Homes and Neighborhoods, Challenging Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=60E64396D9998ED1\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/MGVu4el-QUY\/1.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nMany people have talked about the recidivism problem, but here&#8217;s a group trying to do something about it. Helping people right out of jail to learn how to get a job, convincing employers to hire them, mentoring them longterm with life coaches, lawyers, and accountants,<br \/>\nand with some helping them start their own businesses and employ others.<br \/>\nJimmy Boyd is the principal organizer, and Steve Johnson is the outreach coordinator.<br \/>\nThey have some more people already signed up in a core team, and are looking for<br \/>\nadditional people, not to mention grants.<\/p>\n<p>\nCHANCE had an organizational meeting 7 Jan 2010 at Floyd Rose&#8217;s Serenity Church.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=60E64396D9998ED1\"><br \/>\nplaylist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL60E64396D9998ED1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHelp give some people a needed push?<br \/>\nTake responsibility and help solve a problem what will reduce crime by increasing employment?<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a chance to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have talked about the recidivism problem, but here&#8217;s a group trying to do something about it. Helping people right out of jail to learn how to get a job, convincing employers to hire them, mentoring them longterm with life coaches, lawyers, and accountants, and with some helping them start their own businesses and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,14,15,72,11],"tags":[5908,5906,5909,5910,5911,5907,5905,1900,2825,8701,8730,8702,12,75,2712,6],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-economy","category-education","category-incarceration","category-lake","tag-7-jan-2010","tag-changing-homes-and-neighborhoods","tag-jimmy-boyd","tag-steve-johnson","tag-videos-by-gretchen-quarterman","tag-challenging-everyone","tag-chance","tag-felony","tag-floyd-rose","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-prison","tag-rehabilitation","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}