Trevor’s first night experiencing homelessness in Nevada was the night he was unknowingly injected with meth which changed the trajectory of the next several years of his life. When he found Bridge House and Ready to Work, he began putting the pieces back together. 

Born on his mother’s 21st birthday in San Diego, “what a badass way to be born,” Trevor laughs as he sits in the lobby of Boulder County Mental Health Partners reflecting on the events that brought him here 31 years later.

Born into an active Marine Corps family, they moved from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif., when he was a year old to Kansas and then Colorado a year after that and back to his dad’s hometown of Stockton, Kan., where he spent the next 13 years in a community of all dirt roads, 1,000 residents and one stoplight, the third oldest of seven kids in his now blended family with his dad and stepmom. 

Being raised by an alcoholic Marine who instilled survival, respect, integrity, and the belt, he also pushed his sons to be the athlete that he was- holding football and track records that still stand nearly four decades later. The more disciplined instilled, the more rebellious and adrenaline-driven Trevor and his older brother became. 

Growing up in the country also gave him exposure to hunting, so he also became fluent in pistols, shotguns, rifles, compound bows, knives, and hatchets and lived off the land. 

He did inherit his father’s athleticism, as a shooting guard, shooting beyond the arc was his gravy that helped him win an eighth-grade championship, averaging 33 points a game as a high school freshman, and varsity starter all four years. 

At 15 he had his first Old Milwaukee with his best buddy and immediately spit it out, then took to chewing whole leaf tobacco as “it had a harder hit”. The unintended hit was to his basketball playing career and his new habit cost him playing his sophomore year, finding himself lost without sports. So at 17, with no sports and tired of his dad’s parenting style, he enrolled in the National Guard and was discharged a year later, so he emancipated from his dad’s guardianship and returned to Longmont, Colo., to live with his mom and enroll at Longmont High School. With a block schedule he had more free time, fell in with the wrong crowd, started smoking weed, and was able to fight his way out of a gang. 

From there he bounced between jobs, homes, and states, eventually landing back in California where he met and fell head over heels for a roommate’s sister and 9 months after their first date his son, Lincoln Scott, was born. His girlfriend’s dad landed a job in Salt Lake City and eventually offered Trevor the swing shift as a mail handler with full benefits, and full-on alcohol addiction. After skipping work and rent payments, his girlfriend tok his son and her daughter back to California and he tried to follow them.

But on his way he was pulled over in Nevada and arrested for a DUI and possession. Following three days time served his mom’s new husband was able to get his car out of impound and he was back on his way to Sacramento. Without a job, connections for a place to stay, he found himself homeless. Drunk and passed out in an abandoned house, someone injected him with meth. On the 10th day of a 13-day binge, and on the sidewalk of a Safeway, a random stranger who would become his guardian angel, passed with her daughter saw the hurt in his eyes and wanting to help bought him shoes and socks. When his binge ended  in a whole-body seizure, a stopped heart, and blood infection, Sharron let him stay with her family when he was released from the hospital and stayed there until his mom sent him a bus ticket back to Colorado. 

After missing his bed date at Stout Street in Commerce City, Colo., he found himself homeless in Boulder County when he could no longer stay with his mom. Now addicted to IV Methamphetamines and homeless along Boulder Creek, he stumbled on a container of 98-$100 bills which he proceeded to give to any homeless person he saw in the next six days. He made multiple people cry in the act and that’s when he realized he was meant to help other people more than himself. While he wishes he had given that $8000 to his son, it was his first step to his sobriety. 

He learned about Bridge House from a buddy in Boulder County Jail and entered the Ready to Work program on Nov 28, 2022, and graduated, employed, sober, and housed a year later. 

“Bridge House is what I’d been looking for for a long time. I needed the structure to get out of the cycle of jail and the streets. I now had a roof over my head, three squares a day, and work,” he reflects. “It’s changed my life. That, and drug court where he met Avani Dilger (founder and executive director of Natural Highs) who introduced him to AcuDetox and now practices at the local halfway house and various free AD events.

Trevor is now a lead outdoor supervisor for Ready to Work Boulder’s outdoor crew

He’s working on his peer and family support specialist certification with hopes of being a recovery coach or case manager. “I want to stay here- Bridge House changed my life and I want to change others.” He saw his son for the first time in nine years late 2024, and keeps in touch with his mother’s family and is considering seeking custody.

“It’s gotta mean something when you’re born on your mom’s birthday,” he said. Indeed it does. Badass indeed.