A new Kind of Company
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Our Commissary
Our Commissary
Our Commissary
Second City Snacks is a second chance commissary kitchen located in suburban Chicago. We not only recruit and hire people with a justice experience, but we also employ special need students. Our kitchen celebrates everyone and trains, coaches, and supports our staff to develop and grow in the workplace.
Our Story
Our Commissary
Our Commissary
We believe in learning from and celebrating people who experience life differently. Our commissary kitchen is where we connect. Helping people thrive, who have a unique set of challenges, is our purpose.
Our Goal
Our Commissary
Our Goal
The goal of Second City Snacks is empower people with a unique life experience and students with unique disabilities to live with greater purpose and achieve their individual best in a thriving and nurturing environment.
Our Values--Second city Snacks and Second Chances
Core Beliefs
Second chances come in an infinite variety of forms, but all share the same underlying quality: they involve helping someone up who has previously fallen down. We believe that we have the responsibility to provide second chances, and each of us has the capacity to help lift up others.
In this spirit, Second City Snacks is pleased to have partnerships with organizations that support those in need of advocacy, guidance and employment. We work in partnership with these groups to recruit, hire, train and support those impacted by a justice experience. 100% of our staff shares this common experience and work daily to grow and learn and stay on a good path.
Felicity School
Second City Snacks is also proud to be working in partnership with the Felicity School, a therapeutic day school in Deerfield, Illinois (www.felicityschool.com). Felicity School is designed to serve students who are eligible for special education services in the categories of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Emotional Disability (ED; i.e. depression), Learning Disability (LD; i.e. dyslexia), and Other Health Impairments.
Felicity School was founded on the principle that a great and appropriate education was a right for all students. Schools should be welcoming safe environments where EVERY student can achieve success regardless of obstacles in the way. Felicity is such a place for special education students challenged with unique social, emotional, learning, and environmental issues. With individualized curriculum, unparalleled job training opportunities, and tremendous support systems, Felicity students can grow and realize their true potential.
Felicity students are given part time work, training and support that will assist them in gaining employment, post graduation.
The Safer Foundation
The Safer Foundation, a nonprofit social impact organization based in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1972. Its mission is to reduce recidivism by supporting, through a full spectrum of services, the efforts of people with arrest and conviction records to become employed, law-abiding members of the community. If people with records are provided with direct service support focused on job preparedness and placement, and are also linked to other critical supportive services their reentry challenges will be addressed and, as a result, their likelihood to recidivate (return to prison) will be reduced.
Providence Farm
Providence Farm (https://pfcommunity.org/what-we-do/) is another strategic partner to Second City Snacks. Providence Farm is an extended care community-based and community-supported sober home for 18-30 year old men who have completed treatment for substance use disorders. Second City Snacks provides full and part time employment opportunities to men in the program who are focused on trying to stay on a good path.
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Second City Snacks....Second Chances in action
