T. Rodgers is available as a speaker, an evaluator, and a solution provider.

A lot of speakers who talk about gangs are merely “storytellers.” They don’t have actual life experience, or have limited experience and are speaking about what they’ve learned or what they’ve heard.  They simply regurgitate theoretical information.   T. Rodgers is “IT.” His life experiences are real, hard core, dramatic and powerful.  It’s not a movie. It’s not make-believe, imagined, or a spin off of what he’s read or heard.  It is his reality.

He co-built and led one of the largest gangs on record in the United States in his time and did so a as a teenager.  This phenomenom has spread all over the world and today internationally people claim membership to the Bloods.  This is history.  This is fact.  Now all of T. Rodgers’ efforts are poured into showing young people a different way, the way of forgiveness and non-violence.

He is an award winning “Certified Community Gangologist.”  He was the first ex-gang leader to train LAPD Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (C.R.A.S.H.).  He trained the Sheriffs’ O.S.S. (Operation Safe Streets), Oregon State Police, the Portland G.E.T. Team  (Gang Enforcement Team), the Indiana Lafayatte Police and other community peace officers.  He also serves as a court expert witness providing factual testimony in reference to gang behavior and activities.

He is a crisis intervention team leader and was First Youth Director for SEY-YES (Save Every Youngster Youth Enterprise Society), Inc.  T. was also the National Spokesperson, Executive Vice President and First Team Leader for Jim Brown’s Amer-I-Can.

T’s local community work in Los Angeles resulted in the creation of a fun center at Faithful Central Baptist Church, funding of Masonic Lodge 218 and Hobby Shops for children.  He created over 200 jobs through SideWalk University at Magic Johnson’s Theatre.  He organized and was Labor Supervisor for Crips and Bloods who became skilled construction workers.  These gentlemen became union members and are still working today.  His construction team built several structures in L.A. including:  Fat Burgers,  Taco Bell,  Albertson’s, Pep Boys and Rite Aid.  Twenty companies hired skilled former gang bangers.

Major cities and state agencies in California, Oregon, Indiana, Arizona and Alaska, London, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Miami, Denver, Arizona, Boston, New Jersey, New York have asked T. to assist them with community problem solving.

He has also used his motivational and life experience skills to train ex-gang members to be forest fire fighters.  He has trained school site personnel at the elementary, middle and senior high school levels, educated parents who were referred to SideWalk Univeristy for student intervention crisis training, trained parents of gang members and trained gang members who are parents.  The first graduation for SideWalk University was held in 1993.

When T. Rodgers speaks, he speaks from his heart directly to the heart of the listeners and you feel his penetrating words.  You get a different view of life.

If your community  has problems with gangs, crime, violence, T. Rodgers has the solutions.

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