Information on the Barrio Program
The Books “From the Barrio to the Board Room, Mi Barrio and Little Barrio” are teaching tools. These are relevant, inspiring, and exciting books, and both the school-based and faith-based curricula are used as a comprehensive bilingual non-generic book series and program that resonates with the youth and adults promoting student achievement, helping our teens and at-risk youth with their critical thinking skills, and bridging the educational gap.
To get your FREE copy of the school-based and faith-based curricula sent to you electronically, please e-mail: Robert@fromthebarrio.com
The Story
Several years ago, a young man approached Robert and wanted to know the secret to getting himself a “phat” ride like Robert’s new Mercedes. When Robert told him the secret was hard work, the boy listened. At that moment, Robert realized that countless children, teenagers, and adults are walking around—lost in a culture of darkness—and he needed to do something about it.
The Books
The books promote hard work, dedication, and education as the secrets to success. That context is inspiring kids to do more around the house, try harder at school, question if they’re hanging out with the right crowds, believe in themselves, and reach for higher goals. It is also inspiring adults to open their own businesses, go back to school, and give back to others.
We’re introducing Mi Barrio, a hard-hitting comic book version of From the Barrio to the Board Room that your students WILL BEG TO READ. We don’t glamorize drugs or violence, but we do keep it real in a way that speaks to them honestly while inspiring them to stay in school, value their education and make better choices.
The Barrio books teach our kids and adults that education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. These books also teach our kids that the ultimate weapon is not a loaded gun but an educated mind. That gang-banging and violence is not a life-style but a death style, that bright futures are built on a strong education and that equal education means equal pay and is a great equalizer for any race.
The results and impact from these books and program are nothing less than incredible, a miracle in real time, a solution that is serving as a cure to the disease of gangs and violence that has infected our cities and countries around the world. These tools are being used by kids and adults of all ages, races, religions, and economic backgrounds. A universal message of hope and dreams showing others that there is always a way to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. The Barrio books and program is said to be by several high-level educators, that Barrio could be a solution and responsible for helping to change the landscape for our youth across America and all around the world.
The goal for Mr. Robert Renteria is to exchange the books for all the guns, knives, drugs, needles, booze, and even cigarettes. To teach our kids and adults that the real secrets to success are hard work, determination, and of course education.
Partnership
In April of 2006, Robert partnered with writer and publisher Corey Michael Blake, and From the Barrio to the Board Room was born. It was released in January of 2008 by Writers of the Round Table Press and has since been endorsed and utilized by:
• Superintendents
• Teachers
• Principals
• Counselors
• Universities
• High Schools
• Middle Schools
• Battered Women’s Shelters
• Homeless Shelters
• Churches
• Social Services
• Youth Groups
• Police Departments and Probation Officers
• Substance Abuse Programs
• Multiple Youth Prisons & Adult Prisons