Once each month a conference room in an employment center tucked in the corner of an office park becomes a one-stop shop for second chances.
Scores of people who were formerly incarcerated or have had run-ins with the law come in search of help getting past their record.
During the lunch hour, the visitors circle the room and meet government officials and nonprofit volunteers from the Capital Area Reentry Council, explaining their stories at great length or grabbing pamphlets as fast as they can.
Volunteers from a local nonprofit, the Community Success Initiative, staff a table with neat stacks of yellow brochures that list the pieces in the reentry puzzle: job education, education, housing, human services, mentoring, family engagement and community outreach. Each item comes with a list of options.
[For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/north-carolina...civil-rights/218698/]
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