Scott Brooks, Jr.
Scott Brooks Jr. spent almost twenty-three years in federal prison. There, he learned unique coping skills to recover from addiction, resolve past trauma, and process the heavy emotions resulting from incarceration. After making these discoveries, he shared what he learned with fellow inmates by teaching yoga and meditation classes for over two decades. Soon after release, Trillium Health Resources hired Brooks as an In Reach Specialist with their STAR Program. The Support Transition and Reentry team helps inmates with TBI, IDD, MHD, and SUD connect to essential resources when they are released from custody. Brooks recently completed NC Certified Peer Support Training and has been promoted to an Interim Coordinator position with the STAR Program. Brooks is an ACE CPT, a graduate of the Syda Yoga Foundation’s seventeen-year “In Search of the Self” course, and holds a BSS from Ohio University. He is the author of five books on coping with incarceration, life’s daily struggles, and finding meaning in any circumstance, including A Meaningful Life Requires Meaningful Effort (Doing Time the Right Way), and his memoir, A Soul Call from Prison.
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