Tenio Cousin was born in Carrollton, Georgia in 1975. He attended The State University of West Georgia. He is an alumni member of the music social fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. During his first two years at West Georgia, Tenio performed professionally as the Assistant Director of the Cantamos Spiritual Chorus of Atlanta and the Metropolitan Atlanta Acapella Mass Chorus. Both groups won awards for best video and choral groups at the Christian Acapella Music Awards (CAMA) in 2000.
During his sophomore year of college, Tenio was called out of the music major department and switch to Psychology where he later finished his BA. During this period of time, he worked as a Mental Health Professional with severely emotionally disturbed children.
He has been a keynote speaker for the Georgia Teen Institute using music and psychology to teach children how to choose healthy life-styles. He presented workshops teaching stress management, self-help, and personal wellness. During those years, he also finished his Master's in Psychology and also added on education classes to become a teacher in special education. He also adopted his 7 year-old male son (now 18 years old) at that time. He fostered and worked to adopt his older brother, however, situations above his control prevented the completion of that. He soon moved to teach in public school for 5 years and private school for 3. He is the director of an 21 member female group home for DHR which he wrote the policy and procedure for and helped open.
Currently, Tenio is the sole-proprietor, Administrator, and Instructor of Independence High School accredited by Georgia Accrediting Commission. He continues to write procedure manuals to help open group homes, speak and do workshops for the Georgia and National Association of Teen Institutes, educational consulting and training.
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