Teena James remembers when, in 2003, a woman told her the Stop 6 neighborhood of Fort Worth was dangerous.
The gun violence, gangs, and crime scared the woman, who wouldn’t visit the neighborhood.
James, taken back, told the woman she had built a house and raised four children with her husband in the neighborhood.
“I kept telling people how safe it was and how I believed in it,” James said. “We just had to get involved and be a part of it.”
James has always been involved in her community, serving, for instance, as the PTA president for her children’s schools at W.M. Green Elementary and Dunbar High School. In 2003, she started a nonprofit organization, Safe in the Six, that provides resources and collaborative opportunities such as mental health events, clothing distribution and help with transportation.
At 10 a.m. April 27, Safe in the Six will have its 2nd Annual Human Sex-Trafficking and Mental Health Walk for Awareness. It will start at Dunbar High School at 5700 Ramey Ave. and end at Eastover Park at 4300 Ramey Ave.