1 00:00:04,09 --> 00:00:10,44 I remember staying in the process of frightening. Bynum's there. Was 2 00:00:10,45 --> 00:00:11,15 a T.V. 3 00:00:11,15 --> 00:00:17,94 . SHOW TOO SOON prime streaming. So are ran downstairs 4 00:00:17,95 --> 00:00:24,91 nonstop still see. Man. Gets low. You 5 00:00:24,92 --> 00:00:30,91 know small kids and some bloke covered the whole. She was shot in her unit. 6 00:00:32,64 --> 00:00:39,07 And armor at the moment one sees. Someone and it's time to add 7 00:00:40,05 --> 00:00:46,91 to those retaliating against the person. I was crying says Courage is my spirit in 8 00:00:46,92 --> 00:00:51,77 there me face the invisible all those elements in in 9 00:00:51,78 --> 00:00:55,23 a something. My series with didn't. 10 00:00:59,48 --> 00:01:04,07 Name is Jim Ryan I'm in the city of ministry of the city of Rockford Illinois we 11 00:01:04,08 --> 00:01:08,63 have twenty three acres of abandoned property buildings that are right off South 12 00:01:08,64 --> 00:01:14,45 Main Street Southwest from. People drive by it every day and what they see is just 13 00:01:14,46 --> 00:01:21,39 some advantage neglected here. But they don't know is that this is the area that 14 00:01:21,40 --> 00:01:25,87 really were rock and began were immigrants who came here and they work here over 15 00:01:25,88 --> 00:01:27,85 six thousand employees that at 16 00:01:27,86 --> 00:01:33,35 a given time revolutionizing the textile and street revolutionizing the industry 17 00:01:33,36 --> 00:01:38,32 looks industrial control of three so when they drive by they might see the blight 18 00:01:38,33 --> 00:01:43,40 and it black but we see his opportunity to bring these buildings fact to life 19 00:01:43,94 --> 00:01:47,91 through working with individuals who are also trying to build that their own lives 20 00:01:47,91 --> 00:01:54,84 . I went to prison for. Breaking people around stone people stone 21 00:01:55,19 --> 00:01:56,70 I was given thirty year sentence 22 00:01:57,21 --> 00:02:02,74 a certain seven years to come home on parole I was introduced as program nonsense 23 00:02:02,75 --> 00:02:03,21 so I won't be 24 00:02:03,22 --> 00:02:07,43 a part of it I went through the criteria thing that eighty five people fifteen 25 00:02:07,47 --> 00:02:13,33 seventy people made and I was one of those this is. Not only kind of her in these 26 00:02:13,34 --> 00:02:16,01 buildings facts of life who are also working with 27 00:02:16,37 --> 00:02:20,30 a special group of people that are also trying to restore their own lives through 28 00:02:20,31 --> 00:02:24,40 next offender program that we started many months ago with 29 00:02:24,41 --> 00:02:30,25 a recognition that people were coming back from incarceration they couldn't go into 30 00:02:30,26 --> 00:02:35,35 a treatment program per year they really needed to be rapid graphically deployed on 31 00:02:35,39 --> 00:02:40,59 her story. These people have. 32 00:02:42,27 --> 00:02:48,92 During the. Vacation the first training 33 00:02:49,19 --> 00:02:54,13 what we're working on is the establishing of an industry known as deconstruction 34 00:02:54,38 --> 00:03:01,24 where deconstructing all the different offices and walls. So that 35 00:03:01,34 --> 00:03:06,08 the perspective developer can really look at the space involved. 36 00:03:09,76 --> 00:03:12,39 For fourteen years and I had a house for one K. 37 00:03:12,67 --> 00:03:17,96 Same job the fortune years and my college degree in computer science and I put all 38 00:03:17,97 --> 00:03:23,62 that by relapsing. Into guns and alcohol I've been clean for over seven years even 39 00:03:23,63 --> 00:03:30,46 in the prison system for the drugs and alcohol but. I was the top of the 40 00:03:30,54 --> 00:03:33,08 food chain almost is I was making fifty thousand 41 00:03:33,09 --> 00:03:37,65 a year and my college degree in computer science and now I'm back to John labor at 42 00:03:37,66 --> 00:03:41,30 a fifty year old age but at least I'm two in general they were assisted living in 43 00:03:41,31 --> 00:03:46,18 the mission and the lease for the future personal history it's given me 44 00:03:46,19 --> 00:03:47,57 a chance to buy clothes give me 45 00:03:47,58 --> 00:03:53,56 a chance to my feet on the face. That I need in life which some people will donate 46 00:03:53,57 --> 00:03:58,38 close to you and agencies will continue to pay for food but to be able to say that 47 00:03:58,39 --> 00:04:04,12 you're providing your own living is. To my teen years I spent a couple years as 48 00:04:04,13 --> 00:04:07,76 a student when I was a System Shock teacher only as 49 00:04:07,77 --> 00:04:11,22 a teen No I mean it's taken all those time before about an opportunity to work with 50 00:04:11,23 --> 00:04:18,06 what again just something I want to do. Just table was from everything in this room 51 00:04:18,07 --> 00:04:20,71 that we took down the first week on the job it's going to be given to 52 00:04:20,72 --> 00:04:25,04 a grandmother on much of the farm who's taking care of her granddaughters after her 53 00:04:25,05 --> 00:04:28,90 daughter died we were going to put them into the hat for this table because 54 00:04:28,91 --> 00:04:33,87 a lot of people wanted the one I told them the firm situation on which I did for 55 00:04:33,92 --> 00:04:39,83 everybody not only voted to give it to her tell one side. To show that to succumb 56 00:04:39,84 --> 00:04:45,77 first and we need someone is looking out for the youth in the society. There's 57 00:04:45,78 --> 00:04:48,17 nothing better than the dignity of having 58 00:04:48,18 --> 00:04:51,69 a job when you look in their eyes and they're standing 59 00:04:51,70 --> 00:04:55,79 a little straighter they're feeling more confident about themselves they're 60 00:04:55,80 --> 00:05:00,94 laughing. That's what it's all about getting up each morning having 61 00:05:00,95 --> 00:05:05,83 a purpose in life and when we look at Barbara Coleman to me that's what it's.