About BBI
WHO WE ARE
BBI — Break Barriers Intentionally — is a foundation
and therapy practice based in the Netherlands,
rooted in Curaçao, and built for the world.
BBI stands for three things simultaneously:
For our foundation: Buska Bo Identidat — Find Your Identity
For our therapy practice: Balanced Behavior Intervention
For our Blue Wave campaign: Break Barriers Intentionally
Three names. One mission. Help every person heal
intergenerational trauma, reclaim their identity,
and reach their fullest truest unlimited potential.
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BBI Core STORY
Born in the United States and grew up on the
island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean. From the
very beginning I felt the weight of colonial barriers —
in education, in how I looked, in poverty, in the
colonial mentality that shaped everything around me.
In school I struggled. I was placed
in the lowest level of high school the Dutch system
offered. Teachers did not believe I could go further.
But I believed differently.
Parents were a powerful positive influence in helping
me find my identity and believe in my own potential.
With that belief I went to university — the highest
level of education my teachers never thought a person
from Curaçao with my background could reach.
I completed a Master's degree in Research Social
Psychology in the Netherlands. I became trained in
ABA therapy — Applied Behavior Analysis — one of
the most evidence-based approaches to behavioral
change and learning disability support in existence.
BBI is built because I know from the inside what it
feels like to carry intergenerational trauma, colonial
identity wounds, and learning barriers. And I know
those barriers can be broken — intentionally.
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QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in Research Social Psychology
- ABA trained — Applied Behavior Analysis
- 20+ years experience supporting children, teens,
and adults with learning disabilities, ASD, ADHD,
and behavioral challenges in the Netherlands
- Founder of BBI Foundation — Buska Bo Identidad
- Founder of BBI Therapy Practice —
Balanced Behavior Intervention
- Official gemeente partnership — slavery trauma
healing program researcher and program developer
for intergenerational slavery trauma healing in
Dutch Caribbean communities
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THE BBI MISSION
BBI exists because every person — regardless of their
learning disability, skin color, colonial past,
financial situation, or social challenges — deserves
to live their truest and fullest potential.
Intergenerational trauma from slavery and colonialism
affects Dutch Caribbean communities in the Netherlands
deeply and invisibly. Without healing, that trauma
repeats in our children, our relationships, and our
self-worth.
BBI Foundation addresses that trauma through community
healing programs, ancestry research, and youth identity
work. BBI Therapy Practice addresses individual
behavioral and learning barriers through evidence-based
ABA therapy and personalized support plans.
We believe:
- Identity is the foundation of everything
- Intergenerational trauma can be healed
- Mental barriers are made to be broken
- Every child in the Dutch Caribbean community
deserves to feel capable and seen
- Community heals what individuals cannot carry alone
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BASED IN THE NETHERLANDS.
ROOTED IN CURAÇAO.
BUILT FOR THE WORLD.
BBI Foundation and BBI Therapy Practice serve
Dutch Caribbean individuals and families,
African descended communities in the Netherlands,
children and adults with learning disabilities,
and anyone carrying the weight of a colonial past
or mental barrier that is keeping them from their
fullest potential.
Break Barriers Intentionally,
The BBI Core Team
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