Second Chance Youth Ranch, Inc.
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   Founder  
Second Chance Youth Ranch Founder, Perry Black has a reason to reach the youth of America. From the earliest days of his childhood, he learned the need for a positive outlook and purposeful living. His family spent much of his early childhood in Jonesboro, where he learned to work and help out around the farm.
The middle child of five siblings, Perry learned the value of wisdom and understanding. At the age of 6, his family became foster parents and the first infant they received was born on his birthday. At the age of 14, his mom took a position as a houseparent at the Methodist Children's Home where he lived with 105 other children from 1965 to 1969. He saw fist hand the sorrow facing a child from an abusive home and the hope that comes from a caring home.
 A successful businessman and motivational speaker, Perry has spoken to over 1 million students, urging them to reach for their full potential, and explaining that they are Destined to Win. In his effort to reach as many young people as possible he founded Second Chance Ranch, a place where children, teens and their families can receive the help they need to reconstruct their lives and rebuild their homes.
   Director  
 

Chad Strike is the Clinical Director of Second Chance Youth Ranch.  He is a licensed certified social worker with over 10 years experience working with youth.  He has worked with youth in a number of different settings that include: therapeutic foster care, day treatment, and as the clinical director of the largest child and adolescent psychiatric hospital in Arkansas. 

Chad comes to Second Chance Youth Ranch with a desire to touch the lives of at-risk youth.  His experience working with youth has stirred his passion to challenge adolescents to reach their highest potential and dreams.  He has witnessed how lives can be changed through the healing power of a family centered environment. 

Chad’s desire is to continue to touch as many lives as possible.  He strives to make Second Chance Youth Ranch the best program in the state of Arkansas to impact children and adolescents in a new and fresh way.