WellCare, Derrick Brooks Charities and Tampa Parks & Recreation Department Host Training Program for Teens Nineteen Tampa Bay area teens will go back to school with professional development training, thanks to WellCare Health Plans in collaboration with Derrick Brooks Charities and the City of Tampa's Parks & Recreation Department. The organizations hosted a five-week professional [...]
Derrick Brooks Charities Youth Programs Task Force discusses community activities over lunch at the first meeting of the fiscal year.
Weeks 2-3 of the Ever Fi program we have completed Module 1 of the Character Playbook course. By the end of Module 1 the students were able to identify and label emotions , understand the role emotions play in decision making, and determine what external factors affect emotions. One of the program participants can be [...]
This week was our first week in the computer lab with the students at Springhill Park Community Center. The introduction to our brand new partner program EVERFI was a great success, after taking their pretests the students dove into the Character Playbook program. Stay tuned for more updates.
So all good things must come to an end but not before an action packed day in the Windy City! We started the day with a great breakfast at the hotel and headed out early for the CBOE - The Chicago Board of Exchange. All of the group were presented with official name tags used [...]
Up early and headed to the airport to catch a short flight over the giant lake to Chicago, Illinois! We arrived in Chicago and Washington picked us up in the Chicago Classic Charter bus. We were whisked to Wrigley Field and had a personal meet and great with Coach Joe Maddon. It was a great [...]
Our day started off with a wonderful breakfast at the Dearborn Inn, from there we went downtown Detroit to Wayne State University where we were treated to a tour by two great tour guides. The campus is HUGE and is downtown. The students thoroughly enjoyed the informative tour...next stop - The Henry Ford [...]
After the tour of the Henry Ford Museum the group caught a bus over the Rogue Museum to watch Ford F150 trucks in production. The plant is massive and the experience was incredible. Following our time at the Ford Facilities it was back to the hotel to change for dinner. The group rested for a [...]
Day 3 in Dearborn, Michigan started with a wonderful breakfast at the Dearborn Inn and then on to tour Wayne State University. The University is in Downtown Detroit and is almost as big as the University of South Florida. The tour was very informative and it was a whopping 59 degrees out that morning when [...]
On June 18, 2017 30 Brooks DeBartolo Collegiate High School Students and 10 Chaperones checked into the Tampa Airport Marriott Hotel for the first leg of their Brooks Bunch 2017 trip to Detroit and Chicago. The trip was action packed from Sun-Up to Sun-Down. On June 19th the group departed Tampa International Airport for the [...]
Join Derrick Brooks for an Exclusive shopping event for Father's Day on June 15, 2017 from 7:00-9:00pm at the David Yurman store in Westshore Plaza - all proceeds benefit the educational programs at Derrick Brooks Charities.
Darrell Daniels and youth from DBCYP attend the Tampa Bay Storm versus the Washington Valor Arena Football game on June 10th
DBCYP youth pose with Task Force President Jacqueline Coffie-Leeks (3rd from right) after Ms. Coffie-Leeks conducted a workshop at the 32nd National Conference On Preventing Crime In The Black Community in Orlando, May 2, 2017.
Rechi Butler, a DBCYP volunteer joins Darrell Daniels and presenting laptops to two graduates of the DBCYP courtesy of a partnership with Buddy's Home Furnishings. Devin Hunter, a 2017 high school graduate who changed his life after coming to DBCYP after failing the 8th grade due to arrests and smoking marijuana and spice, turned his [...]
Devin Hunter, a 2017 high school graduate, addresses youth in the anger management class of DBCYP. Mr. Hunter told the youth that he sat in the same class 5 years ago, failed the 8th grade and was arrested and he was smoking marijuana and spice daily but once he got to the class he knew [...]
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi listens to DBCYP Executive Director Darrell Daniels at the 32nd National Conference On Preventing Crime In The Black Community in Orlando. Darrell Daniels poses with Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings at the meet and mingle session
