The GEO’s Second Chance Centers will serve as a creative hub for the residents. The centers will be use to provide classes and studio time to the participants.
Participants will develop their own ideas for the type of content they would want to create. The skills and training needed will be provided to them by The EMA instructors.
At Geo’s Second Chance Center, the EMA staff will work with the participants to schedule studio time for the students; allowing them the opportunity to give life to their creations on their own free time.

Classes will be available Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4 pm. The studio will be available to the participants in the evenings and on weekends.
The creation of content will be done during the students free time, not during classes.

Students are free to donate their content to The EMA Network library. The content manager will arrange the sharing of the content on the EMA platform. The content manager will be responsible for uploading such content to The EMA Network.
The EMA Network will partner with organizations and local businesses to provide the best quality training in the field and the best equipment available to the students.

Second Chance Studio
The EMA Network will be responsible for providing all technical equipment needed for App Development, Music and Video production. Such equipment will include but not limited to:
Sound Equipment (Microphones, cables, mixing boards…)
Instruments (Drums, Guitars…)
Film Equipment (video cameras, lights, monitors…)
Class computers (monitors, servers up to $250,000 of computing power…)
Crafts (paint, paper, fabric, glitter, glue…)
Food Ingredients (up to $100,000 of ingredients for content development)

The center at SBCRF will be consider The EMA Networks Headquarters.
Following evidence-based results of other similar programs across the country, The EMA Network aims to create the first program originated by inmates that allows inmates to create original content for the community and other inmates. Other programs around the nation have been originated by individuals in the community but this will be the first program to be originated by inmates. It will enhance GEO’s image as a company that aims at protecting society through its effort of rehabilitating its residents.

After the conclusion of the pilot, The EMA Network will analyze the data to continue the project and or to expand it to other GEO Second Chance Centers by providing future grants to the partnership.