A Non-spiritual, Non-cash in Criminal and Drug Rehab Program Provides Successful Alternative Sentencing for Offenders

The Second Chance Program is a licensed user of manuals from Criminon International which utilizes the read discoveries made by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. "I am frequently asked if this application is a portion of the Church of Scientology.", explains Rick Pendery, the Chief Executive Officer of Second Chance Program, "We are not a part the Church of Scientology which is a world known religion. We are an autonomous non-religious rehab application presenting choice sentencing for offenders. We are not even licensed by the Church of Scientology to deliver Scientology. We are licensed by Criminon International to use their secular manuals.

Robert F. Henderson who is a Correction Captain in the New York State Department of Correctional Services, says about Criminon International, "The rehabilitative science employed by Criminon will some day temporarily be utilized by penitentiary platforms worldwide, as such processes represent the handiest true attainable means to handle the burdensome criminal populations."

The Second Chance Program in Albuquerque is rehabilitating folks and decreasing recidivism the usage of a positive manualized rehabilitation approach from Criminon International.

Three autonomous university reviews showed over a 5-year period that criminal recidivism had dropped to less than 10% for those that participated earlier than launch in at least one 3rd of the Second Chance Program.

Based on the philosophy that addressing the rationale for criminality can rehabilitate the a lot hardened criminal, the Second Chance Program is gaining status in the US criminal rehabilitation domain. Understanding that restoring a criminal's self-respect through favourable drug rehabilitation and categories in communication proficiency, remedial training, life capabilities, and an innovative series that builds moral reasoning, the applying presents an choice to the judiciary for sentencing criminals.

Hubbard, who personally worked as a Special Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940's, stumbled on there that every criminal career commenced with a loss of self-respect. When a man may perhaps perhaps not longer trust himself, handiest then did he turn out to be a real threat to society. As early as 1952, Hubbard commenced a criminal rehabilitation application with juvenile delinquents in London, England. After two decades of read developments, the Criminon application was born. They offer their curriculum internationally and have active Criminon applications in the us, United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Indonesia, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain and Russia.

Pendery keeps, "A recent analysis by the Urban Institute of Washington, DC looked at what's judicious a lot interesting practice in the criminal justice approach, evaluated the Criminon manuals we use and stumbled on that the manuals hold up very smartly with what's judicious a lot interesting practice in the approach."

The Urban Institute report states, "As documented in the sooner, applications mainly primarily based on the cognitive-behavioral cure (CBT) approach emphasize positive individual behavior alternate through the event or enhancement of moral reasoning capabilities and pro-social attitudes. The Criminon application is mainly primarily based on the essential assumption that the foundation causes of criminal behavior are lack of self-respect and vanity. A positive view of one's self-cost is the commencing that allows folks to pick to engage in pro-social (i.e., non-criminal) behavior. The Criminon application contains many elements of favourable CBT rehabilitative programming. The curriculum areas a robust emphasis on positive behavior alternate through changes in the way in which one thinks about his or her very own behavior and relationships and how those factors influence one's very own life and the lives of those around him/her."

A Non-religious, Non-profit Criminal and Drug Rehab Program Provides Successful Alternative Sentencing for Offenders

Second Chance is a 501(c)(three) tax exempt organization. "We have not received any money from the Church of Scientology, but we would love to, as we would willingly accept donations from any church.", Rick explains. "There are extremely lots of Scientologists who are on our employees, typically less than 5%. I would estimate 40% to 50% are Protestants as smartly as an analogous number of Catholics. This does not mean we are a Christian organization. We have a clause in our employees contract that prohibits any type of proselytization of any religion. We do teach that the offenders in the applying must still respect the religious beliefs of others. And on Sundays at the request of the students, religious providers are supplied and thus far that has been the two Catholic and Protestant."

"We can not legally deliver Scientology.", persisted Pendery. "That is what's so nutty about folks trying to make this appear to be it is some type of proselytizing by the Church of Scientology. Those who have other vested interests attempt to make the decision makers think Second Chance is something aside from what we are. The handiest relationship we have together is L. Ron Hubbard. I am familiar with many of the Scientology strategies and I can guarantee you I would love only so that you could use those to help our offenders, but we are secular and can not"

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