Our Mission
Second Chance Sober Living started in an organic way. Brian Hughes, founder of Second Chance, saw the halfway house model fifteen years ago, in part, as counter productive to people obtaining and maintaining sobriety in their lives.
Fifteen years ago there wasn’t a big sober living community in South Nashville. Brian began opening his home to other men on the road to recovery as a way of helping them get back on their feet.
Little by little, over the years, Brian acquired more homes in South Nashville, providing a safe space for more men to live in community with one another and find their way into a new life.
Today Second Chance Sober Living provides housing and community to more than eighty people in fourteen homes. Their community is involved in recovery based activities, 12 step meetings, employment, assistance and finding a new way of life.
“I really feel like it’s become a labor of love and as heartbreaking and heart wrenching as it is to go through the tragedies there are successes; there are those moments when you know a life has been changed. You know someone has been reunited with family, with friends, with a relationship with a creator… that gave them something back that they had lost. I hate to give up on seeing that miracle.”
— Brian Hughes, Founder of Second Chance Sober Living