Timeline

We’ve provided this new feature to give you a glimpse into 1-on-1 Personal Development’s greatest moments. The best part is we are just getting started”. Our Latter will be better than our beginning.

2011

We started as Faith Vis-Zions primarily focusing on providing services within the faith-based community. We created a Computer Literacy 101 program “WYSIWYG“(What you see is what you get). This program was designed to assist the seniors and others that were computer illiterate to overcome their fear of technology.

We later regrouped as 1 on 1 Personal Development with a renewed focus on focus on assisting individuals with locating their missing pieces. Oftentimes, life can and does throw a mean punch. As the founder of 1 on 1 PD, with lived experiences similar to many of the situations/problems as those we help. I am no stranger to alcohol, drugs, mental, physical, and sexual abuse. It was in my darkest days that someone came along to give me a hand up instead of holding me down. Just as someone with compassion looked past my issues to see the inner me screaming for help I am compelled to pay it forward.

2012

Blessing Before Praise was published. It is His story of a little girl enmeshed in a dysfunctional and violent family. At the age of 9, pieces of her puzzle were lost when her parents separated trapping her in the body of a 45-year-old woman. It details the long painful and troubled journey of her search for the mysterious thing that was often seen in others and dreamed about but eluded her. Her journey ends when she is finally able to locate the missing piece of her life God’s “UNCONDITIONAL LOVE”.

The year was spent publicizing, speaking, and promoting the book. As a result, a new group was created “The Savvy Six Authors. We provided seminars on self-publishing and public speaking. Blessing Before Praise was not written for the author but for the countless others that are lost imprisoned in the past and looking for their missing piece of the puzzle. Order your copy today at smile/amazon.com. Forty percent (40%) of each book supports returning citizens, homeless families, and women recovering from alcohol and drug addictions.

2013

We found that there was more to be done so we moved on to Ministry. We not only found the ministry of service to be exciting, but it also served as the doorway to our passion. Facilitating, Teaching and Serving in prison ministry.

2014

Things took on a drastic change, Prison Ministry was born and that is where the passion grew into what 1-on-1 Personal Development does today. We joined with FUN and Burning Bush Ministries providing personal hygiene products, Dial soap, and volunteering at events when requested to Whitworth Women’s Facility in Hartwell Ga and Arrendale Women’s Facility in Habersham County. It was Prison Ministry that drove our desire to do even more and out of it Spoken word was born. Another way to minister, give hope, and to free them from the confounds of their imprisonment, both physical and mental.

2015

The community is the headquarters for recidivism, intervention, and prevention. So we went where others feared to go into the lion’s den “community”. It is where families are broken up, kids become indoctrinated to drugs, violence, incarceration, and communities are overrun with ill effects.

We joined with local police and elected officials to establish annual night outs, and neighborhood watch groups and build community camaraderie and safety. We addressed petty crimes, and injustice all intricate to reducing recidivism, and juvenile delinquency.

2016

It was a great year for 1 on 1 Personal Development. There were new partnerships, programs and doors of opportunity. We gained entry into the United State Penitentiary of Atlanta, coaching for the “Great Debate” USPA residents vs. students from Morris Brown.

It was in preparation for the debate that “Speak It Up” was created and implemented. Additionally, we facilitated Healing Communities classes which gave birth to the Family Reunification Program for the residents inside the “Great Walls”. During 2016 we also entered Clayton County Transition Center providing biblical, chaplaincy, and career services to volunteers on Family Day, as well as clothes and personal items. Further advancements were made in community development. We were instrumental in collecting and distributing 47,514 bars of dial soap to 22 State Prisons, 400 bottles of water for Flint Michigan residents, and hosted a Coalition Against Homeless forum.

2017

We continued with prison reform, recidivism, and juvenile delinquency. We realized that homelessness, unemployment, medical, and mental illness are major problems returning citizens and at-risk youth and single parents face. Many lacked skills, training, and adequate clothing.

To combat these issues 1 on 1 Personal Development joined forces with Dekalb County Steering Committee, Dekalb Housing, DeKalb Probation, and Juvenile Courts, Dekalb Workforce, Good Will, and SMILE to name a few to develop real-time solutions and networks to address these issues. Partnering with these organizations and businesses opened up resources for much-needed employment and training which will greatly reduce recidivism and juvenile delinquency. We continued to venture out into the streets once again. This time with a focus on the homeless and shut-ins. We provided hot meals, sack lunches, and home-delivered meals on wheels weekly. In addition to resources for food, housing, medical and financial needs. We participated in the census count of the homeless.

2018 - 2019 -

We were offered an opportunity to enter the Dekalb County School System at Redan High School as volunteers providing mentoring, tutoring, and alternative programs for students deemed to be at risk of dropping out. This opportunity allowed us to serve a total of 64 students per month. We offered an alternative to ISS and OSS which decreased absenteeism, tardiness, and other behavioral issues.

2019

Became the year that we were finally moving forward As we worked within Redan High School we discovered several missing pieces of the students’ puzzle correlated to the same issues of the adults within the penal system. This oversight became an unintentional yet direct pipeline into the penal system. Our work within Whitworth, Arrendale, USPA, and CCTC highlighted an otherwise often overlooked area of great concern “the Educational System”.

We expanded our mentorship component at Redan High School for the 2018-2019 school year by providing mentoring and motivational workshops in anger management, building self-esteem, bullying, and conflict resolutions.
We met with the Principal of Dunaire Elementary School and community stakeholders to create a partnership in which we could provide the same resources at the elementary level.
We also joined with Gwinnett STOPP (Stop the school to prison pipeline)
We advanced Community Development by co-creating 4 DeKalb Citizens United and partnered with elected officials to provide educational resources to the community and stakeholders with a focus on creating a safe, clean, and prosperous County.

2020 - 2021

The great pandemic COVID 19 showed up, businesses closed, organizations worked from home or decreased opportunities, and we were shut down for the duration.

2022

We are looking for great things to happen with online and face to face classes.

Beginning Finance 101
Go-Fund is not insurance
Reentering Clayton County Transition Center, and possible other penal facilities.
Developing a GED preparation class
as well as continuing to offer Alcohol/Narcotic Anonymous sessions and grief sessions.

2020 – 2021 COVID 19 arrived and as a result we were forced to shut-down. But bigger and better opportunities are available in 2022 and we are on the move with online classes and workshops.

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