Growing Up Vick: The Strength and Resilency of the Vick Family: A Story of the Strength and Resilency of the Vick Family - Softcover

"Growing Up Vick" is a compelling book about the challenges of growing up in poverty, but having the strength and fortitude to rise above your situation. "Poverty is not permanent." says the author. The book also reveals the challenges of being blood related to a superstar athlete and the good and bad about the superstar lifestyle. She is the aunt of NFL Superstar Michael Vick, who was once the highest paid athlete in NFL history. Ms. Vick also discusses her new life in politics and what she found out behind closed doors about the political life in her hometown.

Ms. Vick is the aunt of NFL Superstar Quarterback Michael Vick, a business women, and an elected official. She was Born and raised in Newport News, Virginia in the southeast community by the late Joseph and Caletha Vick. She was educated in the city's public school system. In 1984, Ms. Vick received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She also completed the Alpha College of Real Estate in 2001. Ms. Vick returned to her Newport News community and has since been active in working to make changes in the community. For five years, she worked as Director for Peninsula Community Development Corporation (PCDC), where she created a homebuyers club to educate hundreds of community residents about the homeownership process. Under Ms. Vick's leadership, the department renovated and built new construction homes in the southeast community and in the city of Hampton to promote efforts to eliminate the city's blight and unsafe neighborhoods. She has also been instrumental in educating and finding affordable homes for first time homebuyers. Ms. Vick continues to work with potential homebuyers, but now in a different capacity: principal broker and owner of Tina L. Vick Realty & Development, LLC. located in Newport News. She was elected to serve on the Newport News City Council in 2008. She is the proud mother of daughter, Teunsha Vick and her son, Terrance Vick and grandmother to Shamar Vick, Tyree Diggs and Tyson Carter.