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Making an Impact #emotionalskills

18 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Doug Noll. This content was uploaded by Doug Noll. This is a YouTube video titled "Making an Impact #emotionalskills" (created 2025-12-18). The excerpt is a first-person monologue in which the speaker recounts lunch with a man they first met in 2017 while he was serving a 20-year sentence. The man was paroled three years ago, is now off parole, and currently runs Project Rebound at a local state university, helping formerly incarcerated students with housing, paid rent, and subsidized tuition conditioned on academic standing. The man thanks the speaker for the training and teaching that contributed to his current role; the content focuses on reentry, education, and the speaker's positive impact.

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Lunch yesterday with a man who I met for the very first time in 2017 when he was serving a 20-year life sentence at a place called Pleasant Valley State Prison. And he was paroled 3 years ago and he's off parole now and he's running Project Rebound at our local state university where he is now working with formerly incarcerated people coming out of Prison, they get a room in a house, their rent's paid for, their tuition is subsidized as long as they maintain good academic standing in college. And he said to me that when he first met me back in 2017, he couldn't imagine his life as it is today, and thanked me for everything that I'd done for him in terms of training and teaching him in our skills and curriculum.