Community Partnerships and Support

PBB is equipped to help clients build upon the cooperative efforts of parents, families, educators, community members, and businesses for the common good of providing challenging and rewarding experiences for underserved and underrepresented students. One of PBB’s most valuable resources is the community. We help our clients work with community groups to develop partnerships focused on increasing academics as well as assisting in developing the student’s social and civic responsiveness. PBB actively helps our clients seek additional partnerships with community organizations to address and support student, family, and community issues and concerns. These partnerships will include, but not be limited to, mentoring, tutoring, community service experiences, mental health counseling, health care, speaker’s bureau, staff development, and entertainment for student incentives and rewards. The community interaction will provide the mentees with a sense of connection and leadership in the community. These community rich experiences will enrich the self-confidence necessary to achieve in their future academic pursuits, high school, and beyond.

About The Founder

Persisting Beyond Barriers (PBB), LLC is guided by seasoned professionals with over a decade of experience in educating at risk youths, at all ages in the following sectors: public, private, charter, mental health, and juvenile justice. The Chief Executive Officer is the founder of PBB. The founder is a first generation college graduate with a Terminal Degree in Higher Education Administration and Leadership; Doctorate Degree: Capella University, Minneapolis, MN. Ph.D. 2010 Persisting Beyond Barriers: The Impact of a Mentoring Program on the Matriculation of African American Students in a Predominantly White Florida University (Mixed Methods Case Study with researcher designed surveys, questionnaires, and follow up interviews).

Although the founder was classified as “at risk” prior to elementary school, Dr. Wright has been able to overcome the risk factors (female, low socio-economic status, incarcerated parent, Black, unpreparedness for college, first generation, underrepresented, non-traditional, underserved) that often lead to or predict academic failure and criminal activity. She was able to overcome these risk factors by government sponsored programs such as TRIO’s Educational Talent Search program, Diversified Cooperative Training (DCT), Workforce Initiatives, Public Assistance, and College Financial Aid programs. One of the most influential and effective intervention was mentoring relationship with an African American physician. Throughout Dr. Wright’s educational career, she attended all predominately White institutions (PWI) where she witnessed a vast amount of her minority peers fail to persist to degree completion. Therefore, she has dedicated her life to the work of helping all underrepresented, underserved populations overcome historical and systemic barriers and persist to degree attainment. Additionally, she has currently four Florida teaching certifications: (1) Educational Leadership (all levels), (2) Guidance Counseling (K-12), (3) Exceptional Student Education (ESE), and (4) Middle Grades Science (5-9). Each degree, course, and certification was research-based and utilized the best practices in nature.