Toby Pendergrass opens the 13th Second Chance virtual fundraising breakfast on Thursday, April 22. “Wake up everybody. No more sleeping in bed. We got to change it, you and me. Just you and me. Yeah.” Elizabeth Jones Valderrama, Executive Director of OAR of Arlington and Alexandria, said that the goal of OAR in 50 years is to “not exist, not to be connected forever but to dismantle.” She explained that OAR has downstream services that provide alternate sentencing through community service and works with formerly incarcerated prisoners to help them reintegrate into the community and to allow them to lift up their voices.
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