The STRIVE Second Chance Re-Entry Program will be hosting a large yard sale at CornerStone Missionary Baptist Church, Saturday, May 19 beginning at 6:00 am.
CornerStone Baptist Church is located at 1095 Allen Road, near the intersection with Stantonsburg Road.
The Second Chance program is a plan intended to assist released jail inmates by giving them employable skill sets and job search assistance, with the goal of reducing their chances of re-offending and re-incarceration.
In order to make STRIVE work, staff members begin counseling with qualified inmates about 6 months prior to their release from jail.Throughout that time the staff members instruct and assist the inmates on job inteview and job skill requirements, goal-setting, and resident placement.
The City of Greenville and the Greenille Police Department are supporters of the STRIVE Re-Entry Program as a long-term crime reduction program and we want to assist in making this yard sale a fundraiser successful.
The acronym STRIVE stands for Support and Training Results In Valuable Employees. Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church is the sponsoring organization for STRIVE in Greenville and the local STRIVE program is modeled after a very successful STRIVE program in Harlem, NY that was featured on the CBS 60 Minutes.
STRIVE is a great example of the public-private / faith-based partnerships that successfully help people in need of direction and guidance. One of the progam's mantras is, "Inspiring Change That Begins Within."
If you want to learn more about STRIVE, go to their website: http://www.strivenc.org/
You can also see a recent news story about STRIVE, featured on Greenville's WNCT:
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