Pine Bluff ICVR, Inc.

Established in 1964

Our Goal

To improve the grades of students and safety of the overall community.​

Our Team

Jesse C. Turner
Executive Director PBICVR INC.

Pastor of the Historic Elm Grove Baptist Church in Pine Bluff. He serves as executive director for the Pine Bluff Interested Citizens for Voter Registration, Inc., a fifty-two-year-old tax-exempt, nonprofit and nonpolitical organization. He also serves as Program Coordination and Affiliate Leader for the PBICVR King Team PEN OR PENCIL Initiative with the National Alliance of Faith and Justice in Washington, DC. As executive director of PBICVR he secured ten million dollars for law enforcement, neighborhood restoration and prevention, intervention and treatment through the federal program called Weed and Seed. He graduated from Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire with a Master of Science Degree in Community Economic Development, and has over 40 years of neighborhood-building and crime prevention experience.
  

Derrick Newby
President PBICVR INC.

Derrick Newby is the Prevention Specialist at UA Little Rock/MidSOUTH Center for Prevention and Training. For the past twenty years, Derrick has worked in the private and public sector, in fields affecting public health, family enrichment, community development, and prevention. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff with a degree in Psychology in 1999. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2004 with a Master Degree in Public Administration. In 2010 he earned his certification in grant writing from Fort Hays State University. He served as vice-chairman on the Communities Against Drugs Coalition in Pine Bluff Arkansas for two years and currently serves as the chairman for the CARES Mentoring program in Pine Bluff. He is a certified cultural competency trainer and a certified suicide prevention counselor. Recently he became a certified prevention specialist. ​

Rev. Jesse C. Turner received "The Distinguish 400 Award"  

Fort Monroe National Park - Comfort Point, Virginia
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August 25, 2019