| Credit: Alliance for Safety and Justice We re moving people from survival mode to living mode; that s what happens in the trauma center, he says. And if people are getting their needs met, their questions answered, then they are less likely to put themselves in high-risk situations. A holistic approach
Rooks was an adolescent living in south Dallas as the crack cocaine epidemic ravaged Black neighborhoods, including his own, in the 1980s. His mother moved him out just 10 miles or so away but left his father and others among Rook s friends behind. Several of his friends lost their lives to violence.