Jerome Brown has been employed by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) as the statewide training director for the SNUG Street Outreach program since July 2021. In this role, he oversees all training provided to newly hired and newly promoted SNUG employees and coordinates professional development training that SNUG staff are required to complete annually. He has been a SNUG master trainer since 2018. Brown joined DCJS after serving as program manager of the Albany 518 SNUG for four years. He moved to Albany, New York, in 2017 after working as a violence interrupter, outreach worker, and outreach worker supervisor at the SNUG program in his hometown of Buffalo, New York.