Timothy “Noble” Jennings-Bey

Timothy “Noble” Jennings-Bey resides in the city of Syracuse in Upstate New York. Since 1996, Mr. Jennings-Bey has dedicated his life to working in the field of violence prevention. Currently, he is the director of the Trauma Response Team and the Executive Director of Street Addiction Institute Inc. (SAII, Inc.). For more than a decade Mr. Jennings-Bey and his team are on call 24 hours a day. The team responds to shootings and homicides while acting as a liaison between the Syracuse community, the Syracuse Police Department, and Upstate Medical Center.

Mr. Jennings-Bey created Street Addiction. This theory was designed to highlight the concept that criminal activity specific to neighborhood violence has an addictive nature similar to alcohol, gambling, and substance abuse. Mr. Jennings-Bey believes that participants in gang/criminal activity are in need of respite and rehabilitation before they can be mainstreamed back into society. Syracuse University’s School of Falk College has partnered with SAII, Inc. to conduct research and offer families throughout the Syracuse community free counseling services specific to individuals affected by neighborhood violence. Mr. Jennings-Bey is a published author, mentor, consultant, and motivational speaker. His areas of expertise are trauma, grief and loss, depression, gang culture awareness, maladaptive behaviors, street addiction, and non-traditional intervention approaches specific to the street/gang culture.