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Youth Change has been training youth professionals throughout North America for almost 20 years. We provide information-packed general session, on-site and recorded workshops. We also publish many books, ebooks, and DVDs, all designed to deliver the newest and fastest solutions for the "worst" kid problems.

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Youth Change is based in Woodburn, Oregon, near Portland, Oregon, but we serve all of North America. Our Director is veteran trainer/author Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. Ruth's work has been featured in the Portland Oregonian, Orlando Sentinel, Child Welfare Report, Adolescence Magazine and in countless other publications. Ruth is the author of more than 20 books for several publishers (click to view), and has written dozens of articles on problem and troubled youth and children. Ruth has trained thousands of teachers, counselors, mental health therapists, special ed teachers, and youth professionals throughout North America for approximately two decades. Ruth has helped create and manage many model youth programs including independent living, day treatment, mental health, juvenile justice and secure programs. She is a popular keynote and featured speaker at national conferences and counseling/education association events, but is probably best known for her surprising, information-packed workshops that are often standing-room-only.

Ruth has trained youth professionals from all parts of the United States. Teachers and other youth professionals routinely brave snow storms, cancelled flights, and even winter power outages to attend her workshops and events. Participants routinely travel from as far away as Australia, Japan and Africa to attend Ruth's practical, one-of-a-kind workshops. This picture of Ruth in her office, is taken from a newspaper cover story on Ruth and Youth Change that ran in October, 2006. (Click for article.)

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Youth Change was created in the late 1980's to respond to the demand for training and resource materials as more and more youth professionals discovered that their college training had not sufficiently prepared them for the ever-more-serious problems they were seeing in their schools and agencies. Our methods were not developed in an office far away from actual children, but in schools, day treatment programs, special ed classes, juvenile corrections sites, and residential treatment settings. We provide real-world answers for real-world problems, not more theory, but ready-to-use solutions that can prevent or manage the problems that contemporary youth present. Youth Change is a socially responsible company. We make a special effort to give back to our community and annually donate a percentage of book sales to non-profit, youth-serving agencies. We also provide work-study scholarships for all workshops that we sponsor. Let us know how we can help you. Let us show you that working with difficult kids doesn't have to be so difficult.

Listen to Marjan Glavac's interview with Ruth Herman Wells, M.S., director of Youth Change. This interview was first posted on Marjan's popular web site, www.thebusyeducator.com, click here to visit Marjan's web site. To view the article accompanying the audio interview, click here. Click twice below to hear the interview.

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Q: I can't get my students to behave. What do you suggest?



A: On our site, there is a sampling of our surprisingly effective interventions from our books, ebooks and workshops. This sampling lets you actually peek into those resources. These behavior interventions actually teach and motivate children and youth to behave. You will probably want to go to many pages throughout our site as solutions for a single concern can be found on many pages. Our specialty is explaining how to work with students when "nothing works" to control them. We show you why conventional interventions always fail with the most seriously misbehaved student, and what to do instead. (Click here for more details.) Another specialty: we have delightfully different, surprisingly effective motivation-makers. (Sample some here.)

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We have solutions for nearly any kid problem. Our solutions are deliberately different from the tools you already have. In college, you were given theory. We have practical, focused solutions that are tailored to fit different types of youngsters. They are not another one-size-fits-all trend but targeted, tested behavior interventions that are designed to work in the "real world" with contemporary students-- students who may look very different than the students you were trained to work with. If you find that working with difficult students has become more difficult, then understand that you may be using yesterday's methods with today's kids.

If you are serious about solving specific behavior problems, you will need more than the sampling we provide online. To get the comprehensive resources you will need for out-of-control youngsters, head to our Books area to purchase our Temper and Tantrum Tamers book or ebook (click here.) Or, consider The Last Chance School Success Guide book or ebook (click here) for help transforming apathetic, misbehaved students into better behaved, more motivated ones. For severely out-of-control youth, here is an inexpensive solution (show below.) Our All the Best Answers for the Worst Problems: Anti-Social Youth and Conduct Disorders volume is available as a book or instant download, printable e-book (click for details). This book gives you the must-have details and tools you need to control conduct disorders, delinquents and your most hard-to-manage youth. If you want solutions immediately, then download our Conduct Disorders book in under 60 seconds by clicking here. stop aggression book on bullies

Our books and printable e-books, provide the full spectrum of strategies for each problem area, from "ADHD" to "Zero Interest in School". Our live and recorded classes are your most comprehensive source of help. Plus, youth professionals can call us about any coping, school or social problem facing a child or teen: 1-800-545-5736, or just click here for Live Expert Help We're here to help youth professionals help youth.

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Here are a few significant, unusual, or important news stories that relate to K-12 schools, teaching, special ed, alternative education, mental health, juvenile justice, or troubled children. You will also find below a scroller that contains links to today's news on these topics. Links to news articles can expire. (click here) if you find a broken link, and we will attempt to locate the article for you.


The American Literary Review has published an excerpt from Youth Change's founder, Ruth Herman Wells' memoir.

    The War Zone I Call Home is included in the Fall 2008 issue of the American Literary Review. This issue of the ALR was just released (January2009). This story is an excerpt from Wells' unpublished memoir. Please note that the bio included for Ruth Wells by ALR in this issue has many factual errors. Although Ruth is excited to have her work selected by the ALR for inclusion in such a prestigious publication, she is concerned about correcting these errors for the record. Purchase this print issue of the ALR for $7 on the ALR website (click.) As of this date, ALR content is available only in print, not online.



Youth Change's Resource website Makes Alexa's list of Top Sites for K-12 Education.

    Youth Change's website is Number 58 as of May 19, 2009 on Alexa's list of Top K-12 Education sites for educators. We suspect our website earned that honor because it is so packed with must-have resources for not just educators but elementary, middle and high school teachers, counselors, special educators, foster parents, aides, court workers, corrections counselors, and everyone else who knows an at-risk, special, defiant or difficult child or teen. View a screen print of the Top K-12 Education sites here (click; new window opens) or visit the Alexa Top Sites K-12 Education List (click; new window opens).


Youth Change's Popular Posters Hit the Big Time

    You've probably seen Youth Change's popular behavior change posters before. Sure, you might have seen them in a neighboring teacher's classroom, or on the wall in the hallway at your youth treatment center, but did you know you may have seen them on the screen too? That's right. Youth Change's posters are part of the set of quite a few national productions. Watch for our surprisingly different school and counseling posters (click) whenever you are watching a program about youth or children. For example, you might be able to spot our posters in the new feature film, Snowmen, or if you have Showtime on your TV, see if you can spot our posters on the set of the show, Possible Side Effects.


A book published by Youth Change, and authored by Ruth Herman Wells M.S. is Named
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An article authored by Ruth Herman Wells M.S. is in the online San Diego Chronicle


Our Workshop Makes the News-- Twice in a Single Week

    Twice in a single week, our "Breakthrough Workshop" receives terrific write-ups. Read about it here before these links expire. You can also call us for a hard copy of these articles from the Orlando Sentinel (click here) and also the Daytona Beach News Journal. Youth Change has been pretty popular over the years with articles also appearing in The Monterey County Herald (July, 2002), Teacher.Net Gazette (February 2003), Youth Today The Newspaper of Youth Work (March/April, 1993), Counterpoint Magazine Published by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (Fall, 1996); The Gleaner (August, 2000), The Portland Oregonian (March, 1992), and the Lewis County Herald (April 2002). These articles are just a few examples of the reporting that has been done on Youth Change's workshops and intervention resources over the years. Let us know if you would like a copy of any of these pieces. Our contact information is at the top and bottom of each web page.


Chicago School District Confronts Dropouts Using a Familiar Method

    Chicago schools have adopted a plan to confront potential dropouts with the realities they will face. Our longtime favorite method, Your Certificate of Dropping Out of School (click here to view) sounds almost exactly like what they're using.


No Cow Left Behind

    An exhausted vice-principal at one of our workshops, called the new rules that schools face, "No Child Left Behind, No Teacher Left Standing." Working with less resources than ever before, that vice-principal's school was struggling to meet the new standards. Here's a compelling, satiric look at "No Child Left Behind," written by another principal, from Vermont. If you have concerns or reservations about "No Child Left Behind," this is a must-read. This quick article may deliver the most powerful insider critique of "No Child Left Behind" that exists.


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WE HAVE MANY MORE INTERVENTIONS

You probably never took a college course entitled "Motivation for the Unmotivated Student" but you probably wish you did. We has as many motivational strategies as McDonalds has hamburgers. We have dynamic, unexpected interventions for every reason a child or youth thinks school is a waste. Yes, we have terrific devices for students who won't need school because they are going to be rap stars, sports stars, actors, win the lottery, marry a wealthy man, or go on welfare. If you start using our apathy-busting interventions, you won't have to work with unmotivated, bored, disinterested, apathetic students any longer.

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If you are tired of working with unmotivated students, then you should know that they are our specialty. So many of our books are packed with creative, unorthodox, attention-grabbing devices, all designed to utterly convince even the most resistant youth that they need school as much as the air they breathe. You can quickly sample some of our most intense motivational interventions by looking at some of the methods as shown on our posters (click here), or sign up for our free monthly internet magazine, The Problem Student Problem-Solver; the first issue is on motivation (click here).

student apathy build interest Terrific motivation methods do exist even though your college training may not have included these essential devices. With titles like Turn On the Turned-Off Student, Education: Don't Start the Millennium Without It, and The Last Chance School Success Guide, you can see that we have hundreds of powerful tools to turnaround your unmotivated, apathetic, and discouraged students. The titles of the lessons in these books capture the many topics covered: Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers, The Tassel is Worth the Hassle, Even Rock Stars Gonna Need School, and The More You Learn, The More You Earn. Only $15 each, these books can help you transform your reluctant students into motivated, interested ones. These books are specifically designed to work when conventional approaches fail, and are formulated to work with particularly resistant youth and children who are highly negative, discouraged or uninterested in school. Click here to read more about these books. Click here to order.

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