Derrick Brewer knows firsthand what it means to need a safe space. Born in Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing projects and raised by a single mother struggling with alcoholism, Brewer went from Division I basketball player to drug dealer to multiple prison sentences before finding his way to recovery. Today, as a Peer Specialist Supervisor at […]

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