Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

How Parents on a Mission Expanded at Second Chance Center – A Success Story!

1 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Richard R. Ramos and Kyle discuss how Second Chance Center launched Parents on a Mission, a program for people leaving incarceration. Kyle got certified in March 2023 and ran his first class that April in a men's halfway house, then kept teaching one each quarter.

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All the development and all the growth, and and people that they're serving coming out of jail, coming out of prison, people on probation, men and women. So what makes me so happy and proud is that they've adopted the Second Chance Center has adopted Parents on a Mission as one of their programs. So I want to move into that right now, Kyle. Talk a little bit how that works, and you know. Kind of where you were teaching and then, uh, where you are now.
Yeah. So, um, once I became certified, like right away, I, uh, I got my first group going and I was only facilitating inside of a men's halfway house. And how many years ago was that? 3. Okay. Over 3. Because, um, I got certified in March of 2023 and I think it was like April I was Starting my first class, I was like, let's get this going while everything's fresh. And then every quarter, like, so it worked out, it was like I was able to run a group every single quarter.