At Brookline High School, Stephen Rabouin is a Security Aide alongside his brother, Mike Lewis. Growing up in Roxbury, he played basketball. Today, he enjoys weightlifting and training, and he has a dog named Remy and a daughter who recently graduated from a Navy school. At the high school, he works with students and runs Athletic Center activities.

What’s something you do around BHS?

I’m the first one at the door at 7:30, greeting everyone. I meet [students] every morning there, so I can see the atmosphere of what’s coming in because if you’re not smiling, I know something’s wrong, right? So I’ll be the first one to see it.

You work with kids in the athletic center after school. Can you describe what you help out with?

If you go to the gym after school on a certain day, there’s a thousand kids in there, so certain kids can’t work out. I go in there, and I make sure that they’re okay. If they’re lifting right. If they’re not lifting right, I adjust it, and I just make sure everyone is [lifting right] because sometimes they can’t do what they want to do.

What has stood out to you about working at BHS?

I’d never thought I’d work with kids again [after my previous job]. I never thought I’d want to. I went from at-risk to juvenile corrections, and then I was supervisor of public safety at Wellesley Hospital. It just draws to me: working with people draws me, and helping people out draws me. It’s my calling.

If you could tell one thing to all the students what would it be?

Be yourself because a lot of kids here [try to] be something else that they are not. I learned from working in a prison that you learn who’s real and who’s not real. A lot of these kids here try to be something else that they’re not, so I try to bring them back. It’s okay to be who you are; there’s nothing wrong with that.