TRIO programs are measured on persistence. Nationally, about one in four first-year students does not return for sophomore year, and the gap is wider for the first-generation and low-income students TRIO serves. The breakdown is rarely academic. It is the everyday life skills that decide whether a student gets to class, manages money, sleeps, eats, asks for help, and holds onto identity under pressure.
A ten-week college readiness and persistence curriculum built on seven life skills, anchored by two validated assessments and a debrief. Delivered in virtual cohorts that scale across a service area, with rolling entry so a student can join any week. In-person delivery available on request.
Every participant completes the EQ-i 2.0 Higher Education assessment and the Maxwell Method DISC profile, receives a debrief, and earns a certificate of completion.
Licensed curriculum. Your team delivers it, with our assessments and a facilitator orientation behind them.
Facilitated cohorts. Dr. Thurman, OTD delivers the live sessions, virtually or in person, quoted per cohort.
Founded by Dr. Tremayne Thurman, OTD, a certified EQ-i 2.0 consultant and a Maxwell Method DISC consultant and trainer with nearly two decades of clinical and academic work in occupational therapy. Built in partnership with the Francis Marion University Doctor of Occupational Therapy program, whose pre and post EQ-i 2.0 dataset publishes in Fall 2026, and anchored by TGG's 23% Advantage proof of concept.