Freedom | Family | Finance
Freedom | Family | Finance Freedom | Family | Finance Freedom | Family | Finance
Freedom | Family | Finance
Our Mission
Second Chance - Alive & Free
Our Mission
The Mission: To remove all obstacles and excuses from returning back to prison. Delivering readily available resources to change the justifications that leads to using illegal “street” alternatives.
The Vision: Bridging the gaps of freedom, family and finance. The growth of an individual brings safety to oneself and others with family unity and generational wealth.
We are a 501(c)(3) charity nonprofit organization and certified as women led minority owned small business. Established in June 2020.
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Our Team
Second Chance - Alive & Free
Our Mission
NSNS leadership and the Board of Directors are committed to fostering an environment that is built around community, positivity, and collaboration to support the reentry population and help them be successful. At NSNS, our team members care about the participants we serve and are thorough with business and day-to-day logistics. NSNS’s staff members are credible, experienced, and knowledgeable in assisting such a unique audience. The vision established for transitioning youth and adults back into the community from serving time in detention centers or prisons using the restorative power of mentorship. Our workflow aims to reduce violence and increase safety and restoration of Maryland statewide. This is a matter of public health and safety.
Second Chance - Alive & Free
Second Chance - Alive & Free
Second Chance - Alive & Free
Organizational Background
No Struggle No Success Inc. (NSNS) has served the youth and adults of Baltimore City since 2018. This robust program is designed to demonstrate that there's “no excuse” to return to prison. The organization name was adopted from a juvenile (at the age of 15) who was charged as an adult in Maryland.
NSNS supports motivated individuals who are incarcerated or recently released from prisons and detention centers. NSNS ensures the youth, adults and their families have culturally appropriate wrap-around services including programs that connect youth to traditional practices of community building and healing and also that they have support to navigate through the justice system.
NSNS promotes community-oriented and problem-oriented policing to improve community safety and school and community-based restorative and transformative justice approaches focused on healing as an alternative to the court system. Our community partnership promotes togetherness, and inter-agency collaboration helps reentry community have more opportunities. NSNS demonstrate ways to reduce recidivism, build impactful relationships, decrease mass incarceration, advocate for law modifications, and remove the obstacles in the reentry transition for adult offenders and intervention services for youth offenders.
The Problem, Purpose & Solution
The process of leaving prison can be very difficult, especially for the returning citizens who have had to serve lengthy sentences. Providing a reentry plan of structure routine specific assigned services is vital to the success and wellbeing of those granted released. It is particularly important for individuals who have served very long sentences, and have been institutionalized for most, if not all, of their adult life. Prior to COVID-19, each year about 4,000 people were released from Maryland state prisons and returned to communities across Maryland.
The primary focal point of No Struggle No Success, Inc (NSNS) Reentry Program is to create and implement a roadmap to give returning citizens the tools needed to not only survive, but to be successful and live a fulfilling life. With a focus specifically on individuals who have served many years in prison seeking review of a lengthy sentence imposed as a child or are eligible for parole of a life sentence, this project will take No Struggle No Success, Inc, ’s innovative and collaborative response to recidivism and violence reduction in Baltimore.