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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do"
-John Wooden
Sunday, May 2, 2010
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Wendell Brooks -Founder of B.D.K. Foundaton Inc.
Quote of the Month (May)
“Raise your believability…Believe you can and Know you can. NOW JUST DO It"!
-Alicia D. Brooks
Picture of students working, meeting new parents, and community outreach.
Many recognize that a crisis is occurring in America’s schools today. In many areas, school violence rates are at an all time high, test scores are plummeting, and high dropout rates continue to plague our school district. Juvenile correctional institutions and prisons are bursting with our youth, men and women who have failed in school. While school districts and governments wrestle to make our educational system effective, they are faced with mounting social problems that cannot be solved by merely teaching academic skills. Because of the many problems in this world, our organization would like to concentrate on helping Underserved Youth, Parents, and Building Better Communities through the power of Believing, Doing, Knowing (B.D.K.).
B.D.K. is an innovative program that provides students with the opportunity to address the issues that may have impeded their progress and reestablishes self-worth by acquiring life skills and strategies that connect them in a positive way to their school and their community. Believing, Doing, Knowing is a cutting-edge approach that improves academic achievements, reduces the effects of at-risk factors and builds positive developmental assets in students, teachers, parents and members of the community. B.D.K. utilizes community-building strategies from author Clifton Taulbert’s critically acclaimed Eight Habits of the Heart and Jay McGraw’s bestseller Life Strategies for Teens which helps reverse the hopelessness and despair in today’s youth. Through our guidance, resilience and hope is restored. For those who embrace B.D.K., they are BELIEVING in themselves, DOING whatever it takes and KNOWING that they can be successful. My endeavor is to rigorously work and maintain the quality of the B.D.K. experience for students and to extend the program to further reach and benefit the community.
MISSION STATEMENT: To offer diverse adolescents with empowering life skills, strategies and inspiration that will bridge them constructively to their school and community.
VISION: To foster a safe and positive environment where students implement and develop techniques necessary to impact their family, community and society.
VALUES OF B.D.K.
· Create an environment that fosters student learning
· Improve student academic achievement
· Develop student character
· Build a positive sense of community
· Increase parental involvement
· B.D.K. Classroom Management Trainer
· Motivational Speaker
· School Consultant
· Life Strategy Trainer
· School/Community Building Trainer
· Youth and Parent Workshops and Seminars
WISH LIST:
Men Dress Shirts & Ties
Ladies Blazers
Laptop Computers
Video Equipment
Sports & Entertainment Tickets
Multipurpose Facility for Youth Programs
Bus or Mini Van
DONATIONS:
Believing Circle $5.00 to $50.00
Doing Circle $55.00 to $100.00
Knowing Circle $105.00 and over
SPECIAL B.D.K THANKS:
To Deyon for joining the Knowing Circle
To Green Star Cleaners
To Steve Kay Promo Ventures
To Teresa Markin Bakery Outlet
To Starbucks Garden Grove
To Dorothy Corruso (Video Tech).
To Attorney Stephen Lamb
To Veronica Gomez (Parent Liaison)
All donations and contributions are tax deductible. B.D.K. Foundation Inc. is A Non- Profit organization.
CONTACT ME @ wendellbrooks@ca.rr.com
Believing Doing Knowing
Wendell Brooks -Founder of B.D.K. Foundaton Inc.
About Me
- Wendell Brooks
- Wendell D. Brooks, educator, minister, mentor, and coach is the founder of B.D.K. Foundation Inc. He resides in Orange County California and has been happily married to his wife Alicia for over thirty years and has three adult children and one grandchild. Motivating the youth to become the best has been a continuous venture of Brooks’, he empowers them with B.D.K. principles: Believing in oneself builds confidence, Doing whatever it takes develops an improvement in character, and Knowing one’s success is a powerful insight for the youth to realize that their lives are significant. Wendell acknowledges that he would not have reached his high level of accomplishment without the members of his community especially those in the city of Long Beach where he grew up. He has spent most of his life serving the public. Wendell is a community builder, extending his experience in the correctional institutions, school campuses, the classrooms, or in the neighborhood.
Wendell's Resume
EDUCATION
1995: M.S. (Education Administration) National University
1980: Teaching Credential Life Certificate-California State University, Long Beach
1973: B.S. (Sociology) Utah State University
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2010: P.C.T.A. (Parent Child Teacher Association)
2009: Founder of B.D.K Foundation Inc.
1993: Founder of Boys To Men (Mentoring Program)
1990: Founder of StarLight Ministries
1973-1993: California Youth Authority (Counselor, Teacher and Mentor)
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2006: Recipient of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (Eleventh Edition)
2003: Orange County Department of Education (Chapman Region) Teacher of the Year
2002: Orange County Department of Education (Chapman Region) Teacher of the Year
1995: Graduated with Distinction for M.S. Degree
Quotes of the Month Archive
Quote of the Month (May)
“Raise your believability…Believe you can and Know you can. NOW JUST DO It"!
-Alicia D. Brooks
Quote of the month (July)
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do"
-John Wooden
-John Wooden
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Picture of students working, meeting new parents, and community outreach.
What Is B.D.K.?
Many recognize that a crisis is occurring in America’s schools today. In many areas, school violence rates are at an all time high, test scores are plummeting, and high dropout rates continue to plague our school district. Juvenile correctional institutions and prisons are bursting with our youth, men and women who have failed in school. While school districts and governments wrestle to make our educational system effective, they are faced with mounting social problems that cannot be solved by merely teaching academic skills. Because of the many problems in this world, our organization would like to concentrate on helping Underserved Youth, Parents, and Building Better Communities through the power of Believing, Doing, Knowing (B.D.K.).
B.D.K. is an innovative program that provides students with the opportunity to address the issues that may have impeded their progress and reestablishes self-worth by acquiring life skills and strategies that connect them in a positive way to their school and their community. Believing, Doing, Knowing is a cutting-edge approach that improves academic achievements, reduces the effects of at-risk factors and builds positive developmental assets in students, teachers, parents and members of the community. B.D.K. utilizes community-building strategies from author Clifton Taulbert’s critically acclaimed Eight Habits of the Heart and Jay McGraw’s bestseller Life Strategies for Teens which helps reverse the hopelessness and despair in today’s youth. Through our guidance, resilience and hope is restored. For those who embrace B.D.K., they are BELIEVING in themselves, DOING whatever it takes and KNOWING that they can be successful. My endeavor is to rigorously work and maintain the quality of the B.D.K. experience for students and to extend the program to further reach and benefit the community.
What We're About
MISSION STATEMENT: To offer diverse adolescents with empowering life skills, strategies and inspiration that will bridge them constructively to their school and community.
VISION: To foster a safe and positive environment where students implement and develop techniques necessary to impact their family, community and society.
VALUES OF B.D.K.
· Create an environment that fosters student learning
· Improve student academic achievement
· Develop student character
· Build a positive sense of community
· Increase parental involvement
Services Provided
· B.D.K. Classroom Management Trainer
· Motivational Speaker
· School Consultant
· Life Strategy Trainer
· School/Community Building Trainer
· Youth and Parent Workshops and Seminars
How Can You Help?
WISH LIST:
Men Dress Shirts & Ties
Ladies Blazers
Laptop Computers
Video Equipment
Sports & Entertainment Tickets
Multipurpose Facility for Youth Programs
Bus or Mini Van
DONATIONS:
Believing Circle $5.00 to $50.00
Doing Circle $55.00 to $100.00
Knowing Circle $105.00 and over
SPECIAL B.D.K THANKS:
To Deyon for joining the Knowing Circle
To Green Star Cleaners
To Steve Kay Promo Ventures
To Teresa Markin Bakery Outlet
To Starbucks Garden Grove
To Dorothy Corruso (Video Tech).
To Attorney Stephen Lamb
To Veronica Gomez (Parent Liaison)
All donations and contributions are tax deductible. B.D.K. Foundation Inc. is A Non- Profit organization.
CONTACT ME @ wendellbrooks@ca.rr.com