Wired to Help- Company Gives Convicts a Second Chance*

Finding a job can be difficult for people with a criminal record. But one Colorado business gives people who have turned their lives around a second chance.   

Karla Nugent is the co-founder of  Weifield Electrical Contracting. Her company not only caters to its customers, but it also gives at-risk youth and adults a chance to get back on their feet with a job.  

She says that no one is perfect, but that her business focuses on workers’ future rather than their past.  

“I think it’s how I am wired! It’s part of my faith. None of us are perfect. We’ve all made choices in the past that we look back in the past and say I would have done that differently,” Nugent said. “So, I think we are always looking forward and looking for the best in people and believing in them. We want to build a place where people care about each other and it’s a community that no matter what has happened in the past we can move through that and get to a better place,” she explained.   

Nugent has been very successful so far, not only did she get people back on their feet after a rough past, but the Denver Business Journal named her Corporate Citizen of the year as well as the Outstanding Woman in Business. 

“It’s why I work here, it’s what gets me excited, it’s what connects me to people, I want to be known as a woman of faith and living that in the workplace,” Nugent said.  

*Article adapted from CBN News- Wired to Help: Company Gives Convicts a Second Chance