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These are actual comments from teachers, counselors, principals, juvenile justice workers, foster parents, social workers, psychologists and youth professionals. They're keynote speaker talking about Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. And soon you'll be talking about her too. Ruth Herman Wells can turbo-charge your next conference or event. Discover why counselors cried during her keynote at the California Association of Counseling and Development Conference in Anaheim, CA. Learn why she has been a repeat speaker at the Iowa Alliance for Children and Families Conference. Find out why Ruth's talks were standing-room-only at the Kentucky Council for Children with Behavior Disorders Conference. If you are looking for an attention-grabbing, emotional, unforgettable keynote, call now toll-free to 1-800-545-5736, or Ruth's passionate, emotional keynote can make your next event your best event. Click here to read more reactions from participants who have heard Ruth talk at events just like yours.
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AN ATTENTION-GRABBING KEYNOTE

Entitled Doing the Impossible Just Takes a Little Bit Longer, Ruth Herman Wells' keynote will grab your participants' attention, and then take them on an emotional, thought-provoking roller coaster ride. Ruth's talk is a candid look at the world for children and youth today. This keynote is one part hard truth, one part humor, and one part story, all designed to inspire and reinvigorate your participants. Your participants are teachers, counselors, court workers, foster parents, and social workers. They hold the hands of the children. Every day, they are expected to do the impossible. Every day, they are expected to work miracles with children and youth that others have discarded and disregarded. Your participants are tired of platitudes. They don't want to hear any more theory or explanations. They want to hear what they can do to make a difference. They want to hear how to stay committed and connected to a job that often seems incredibly sad and absolutely impossible. You can give your participants exactly what they want. Schedule a keynote speaker who looks reality in the eye, and stares it down. Ruth Herman Wells will deliver the answer to "What do I do now?" and will re-inspire your conference participants to do the impossible. This keynote is practical. It's hard-hitting. It's emotional. It's packed with solutions-- and it's just the right keynote solution for your next conference.

If you are looking for an intense, surprisingly different keynote that immediately engages and changes your participants, contact us now while open dates remain. We can work with you directly to arrange your event, but if you prefer to work through a speakers bureau, we have several that will be happy to assist you. We may already be working with the speakers bureau you prefer. If not, much of the time, we can arrange to partner with the speakers bureau you already work with. Call now toll-free to 1-800-545-5736, or


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A VETERAN KEYNOTER
WHO DELIVERS PROVEN RESULTS

Veteran trainer Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. began her career as a counselor working in locked settings with the most severely disturbed and troubled youth in Oregon. She helped create and manage a wide range of innovative programs for problem and difficult youth and children. Ruth is also the author of dozens of landmark books and ebooks on working with violent, withdrawn, angry, delinquent, homeless and abused children and youth. Ruth is the founding Director of Youth Change Workshops, and the creator of Youth Change's award-winning Problem Kid Problem-Solver website, which has become one of the most popular sites for youth workers on the internet.

Ruth is probably best known for her must-see behavior change posters, and for landmark behavior intervention books like Temper and Tantrum Tamers, Turn On the Turned-Off Student, and her All the Best Answers for the Worst Kid Problems book series. Over the past couple decades, her Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop has been invited to conferences, institutes, symposiums, and universities all over North America. Ruth has been a longtime contributor to industry publications, and for the past few decades, her books, posters, and work has been featured and reviewed by countless print and internet newspapers, journals and magazines. In 2008, one of Ruth's books was named by the Dictionary of Mental Health as one of the Top 100 Books on Domestic Violence. Known for her emotional, compelling use of both spoken and written words, some of Ruth's work was included in the Fall 2008 issue of the prestigious American Literary Review.

In her 30 years as a counselor, Ruth has seen thousands of lost, battered, unwanted, troubled and throwaway youth and children. She has wandered North America for the past two decades training youth professionals, speaking to educators, counselors, therapists, psychologists, social workers, foster parents, special ed teachers, and juvenile court staff members. Ruth speaks at conferences, school districts, agencies, universities, schools, community centers, colleges, and programs. She has taught during blizzards in places like Columbus, Ohio and Hamilton, Montana. She has traveled to remote sites like Kotzebue, Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle. She has spoken in locations as diverse as Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada, post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, and Miami, Florida. Wherever you are, Ruth knows you and what you face. She understands your troubled children and youth. She can come to your conference and make a difference for both your staff and children. Click here to see a few of the hundreds of sites in North America where Ruth has been invited to speak.
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California Court School Conference, Tahoe, California

Texas Principal Academy Conference/Education Service Center 10, Rockwall, Texas

Oregon Alternative Education Conference, Newport, Oregon

Moncton Youth Residential Services Conference, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Monterey Herald Newspapers in Education Conference, Monterey, California

Washington County Juvenile Court Conference, Hillsboro, Oregon

WAVE National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

Orange County Schools, Orlando, Florida

Diocese of Erie Conference, Eric, Pennsylvania

The Children's Center, New Haven, Connecticut

Families in Need of Services Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Region 5 Family Resource Center Conference, Lexington, Kentucky

Lincoln Hall Correctional Institute, Lincolndale, New York

Patrick Henry Group Homes Conference, Brookneal, Virginia

Warm Springs Early Childhood Center, Warm Springs, Oregon

Juneau Youth Service Conference, Juneau, Alaska

Waveland School District, Waveland, Mississippi

Washington Early Intervention Conference, Seattle, Washington

Milestone Sabis Charter School Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana

Alhambra School District Conference, Phoenix, Arizona

Black Clergy Alliance Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida

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