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He found himself bouncing around from mediocre job-to-job making most of his income from freelancing private security for local clubs and small celebrity venues. Within a year, Tommy found himself working as a parking lot attendant for a large company with numerous contracts around Raleigh, North Carolina. Within 9 months, he became an Assistant Operations Manager of that company which was sold for 20 million in 2018. During that same year, Tommy was offered the position of Community Health Worker (CHW) for Orange County Health Department where he is now the Lead CHW for the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program. Recently, he became an Adjunct Instructor for UNC Family Medicine. Tommy co-owns Success While In Transition (SWIT) that helps men and women become successful in their post incarceration transition and people battling recovery from substance abuse. Tommy also presides as Co-Director of a nonprofit that provides formerly incarcerated Peer Support Specialist to help other formerly incarcerated individuals in their transition back into society. He has been featured in the Washington Post, Health Affairs Magazine, and two local radio stations for the work he has done and continues to do for the NC FIT program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2299,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[5],"class_list":["post-3457","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-nc-fit","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tommy Green, NCPSS, CHW - North Carolina Technical Assistance Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/fammed\/nctac\/people\/tommy-green-ncpss-chw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tommy Green, NCPSS, CHW - North Carolina Technical Assistance Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tommy Green\u00a0was born in Oxford, North Carolina, but was raised in Durham North Carolina where he now resides. 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