Brooks Blog
DBCYP Volunteers Enjoying Last Night’s Bucs Game
Thank you to all of our Derrick Brooks Charities Youth Programs volunteers!
2018 Wellcare Summer Youth Professional Training Program Graduation Celebration
On August 7, 2018 14 students from the City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department successfully graduated from the Summer program. Wellcare hosted them at [...]
13th Annual Back 2 School Bash was a Great Success
On Saturday August 4, 2018, Derrick Brooks Charities Youth Programs in partnership with the City of Tampa Parks and Recreation, City of Tampa Police Department, [...]
13th Annual Back 2 School Bash
On Saturday August 4, 2018, Derrick Brooks Charities Youth Programs in partnership with the City of Tampa Parks and Recreation, City of Tampa Police Department, [...]
2018 Wellcare Summer Youth Professional Training – Week 3
On Tuesday July 24, 2018 the students entered week 3 of their Summer program. This week was about how a bill gets passed to law [...]
2018 Wellcare Summer Youth Professional Training Program
On July 10, 2018 Derrick Brooks Charities in partnership with Wellcare and the City of Tampa kicked off it's 3rd Annual Summer Youth Program at [...]
The Rites of Passage Program and Moffitt Healthy Kidz
We are grateful for the Moffitt Healthy Kidz program for inviting the young ladies to participate in another wonderful event. Thank you, Nikki Inda, for [...]
Young Ladies Rites of Passage Program End of Year Celebration
Our last mentoring meeting was spent having fun at Dave & Busters! Derrick and I had a blast with all of you. Enjoy the rest [...]
Congratulations to the Young Ladies Rites of Passage Program 2018 Graduates!
Congratulations to our 2018 high school and college graduates! India Philon, T’erra Johnson, India Green, Jessalyn Solomon, Mariah Davis, Bethune Cookman University, Taija Marc USAF [...]
306 African American History Program 2017-2018 Update
306 African American History Program Update for 2017-2018 School Year Derrick Brooks Charities is pleased to report that the implementation of the 306 program in [...]
The 33rd National Conference on Preventing Crime in the Black Community
The Rites of Passage Program traveled to Jacksonville, FL. to attend the 2018 National Conference on preventing crime in the black community. The young ladies [...]
Brooks Bunch Coming Home Day 6
A very tired group of youth and adults headed to the airport following breakfast at the hotel. All of our travels went extremely smoothly and [...]
“Character, teamwork, hard work, perseverance, greatness, success, failures, motivation, humility. Those are the things that this game has really taught me.”