The Flood Group

The Flood Group is organized exclusively for Community Education and Enhancement

The mission of The Flood Group is:

1.To empower youth through programs that enhance engagement and academic achievement

2. To engage parents in their child’s educational journey with access to information, a supportive network of parents and teachers, and content to support parental contributions to student learning

3. To collaborate with community partners to build a foundation of support for communities throughout Wake County; and

4.Lastly to promote literacy amongst youth as a means to close the achievement and opportunity gaps.

The History of The Flood Group

The Flood group's strategy requires that power of the clergy, along with community leadership to help address the challenge of ensuring educational attainment for our children. We always welcome energetic leaders who are committed to one thing, the success of our children. 'Our whole educational system is in a crisis. It can't adapt. In fact, this crisis extends to industry and politics. Everything seems to be escaping our thought and hence our control.' [p. 246 Dalai Lama, The Path To Tranquility, Viking Arkana, 1999]

The Wake County Community Education Committee more recently renamed 'The Flood Group' (more inclusive) as a movement. 'The Flood Group's focuses energies inward ensuring that our Schools, Communities, and Families are providing a real chance for children to achieve educational excellence, making them not only effective citizens, but globally competitive one generation at a time.

The purpose and mission of the WCCEC (now the Flood Group) shall be to serve as a vehicle for bringing together diverse talents and forces within the community to foster the achievement of a quality education for all children. A major goal is to 'To collaborate with persons and organizations that are similarly committed to the mission of the WCCEC'

At one time leadership for civil rights came from the church. 'The Flood' group's strategy requires that power of the clergy, along with community leadership to help address the challenge of ensuring educational attainment for our children.

There are four factors that impact whether a student is successful: (1) School, (2) Home, (3) Community, (4) Individual. The Flood Group is deeply committed to student and parent advocacy and was founded by Dr. Dudly Flood and Reverend Marion Robinson to ensure student success by providing support in all four of these areas.