About Second Growth
Agency profile
Second Growth, founded in 2000, is a small nonprofit social-service agency with a large mission:
Create, deliver and evaluate innovative programs that reduce the risk for adolescent substance abuse and violence, and train others to replicate the programs.
Second Growth provides a unique blend of education, training, consultation, and direct client services for adolescent crises. When confronting high-risk behaviors, our professional staff members utilize an engaging and inspiring style that promotes renewal of hope in the toughest of circumstances. Remarkable in the field of adolescent counseling, Second Growth has built its success on simply “being there” in whatever way it counts most in each client’s moments of need – even to 24/7! – while also developing prevention, early-intervention, and crisis-response resources in Upper Valley schools and communities, and beyond.
Second Growth’s history
Second Growth, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) agency. All donations are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Second Growth is a community-based, nonprofit agency that provides prevention, intervention, and crisis-response services that address the issues of substance abuse, interpersonal violence, and suicide. Located centrally in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire, Second Growth delivers a unique blend of client services in Upper Valley communities in and adjacent to Hartford, Lebanon, and Hanover, along with curriculum development, training, and consultation for schools and communities throughout the northeast.
Robert Bryant and a small group of supporters founded and incorporated Second Growth in 2000, to expand Robert’s success as an adolescent counselor, which he practised at Headrest in Lebanon NH for 10 years before establishing his own practice in 1996. As referrals by both adolescent clients and legal and healthcare professionals increased, the agency has grown to include four counselors, plus interns.
Second Growth’s work with young clients is recognized as unique in style, both for communicating extremely well with adolescents, and an unswerving dedication that is typified by being freely available to any client in crisis, even to 24/7. Another hallmark of Second Growth’s style is that most clients have been referred by their peers.
In 2008, Second Growth’s board of directors committed to expand the agency’s capacity to handle the increasing referrals for adolescent counseling and advocacy by training new staff and broadening our base of support so we can sustain our ability to meet our communities’ needs.