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The Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth On-Site Workshop delivers hundreds of immediate, more effective solutions to turnaround your troubled and problem youth and children. As pictured in the 2011 SpeakerWiki graphic at right, this workshop and instructor Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. are extremely popular nationally. As shown in one of the graphics, Ruth and the Breakthrough Strategies Workshop are ranked educator professional development at #3 for elementary education, #7 for high school educators, and #8 for elementary school staff. This is why the Breakthrough Strategies Workshop is so popular all over the U.S: Your staff name the problems. This inservice delivers dozens of state-of-the-art, problem-stopping answers. Schedule this top-rated professional development workshop for your school, agency, or conference. $42 college graduate credit and free clock hours can be arranged. This workshop is your Problem Kid Problem-Solver.

200 problem-stopping answers for your worst "kid problems"
Call 1-800-545-5736 to arrange a no-risk look at the hundreds of answers we can bring to your site. We'll send you an information packet complete with costs, references, sample materials, background information, and everything you need to train your school, agency or conference affordably.

This workshop delivers immediate results
In the first 10 minutes of your on-site workshop, your staff will be asked to name their "worst kid problems." We then tailor the entire course to deliver our best answers for those exact problems. We provide immediate, ready-to-use answers for even the most serious concerns. In a two day class, your staff will hear 200 state-of-the-art, more effective answers. If your staff's training prepared them to work with Beaver Cleaver, and you have Beavis and Butthead showing up, then our workshop can provide the skills your team needs to best turnaround the contemporary kid. No other workshop will use your precious time as well. No other workshop will give you more tools, more insights, more answers. Plus, we'll let you preview our class completely free to let you evaluate it. We know that if you sit in, you will decide to sponsor your own session. We want you to be able to view a class without charge so we can show you how this powerful workshop will turbo-charge your staff's skills to fit contemporary youth and children For workshop details, click here or scroll below. Contact us for details: Call 1-800-545-5736 toll-free or e-mail us.

We do all the work.
We provide a flyer, workbook, even $42 college credit and free clock hours and CEUs.

An exciting change of pace for your next conference.
At national, regional and state conferences, our workshop is often standing-room-only. We give only the latest, most practical, attention-grabbing strategies that work-- just what your conference participants want. We're known for drawing a crowd to our conference breakout sessions because participants are so hungry for practical, real-world, immediately useable answers. This session will be the liveliest, most compelling, emotionally-charged, information-packed session of your event. Breakout sessions can even be arranged for nearly any time frame, and you can choose from a huge assortment of specific topics. Some of our best crowd pleasers are Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers; What Works with Work Refusers and Shut-Down Students; Control the Uncontrollable Student; Spot and Stop Violence Before It Starts; The Best Violence and Apathy-Busters; What You Don't Know About Violence Can Hurt You; Beyond One-Gender-Fits-All Methods: Gender Proficient Methods for Girls; and You Probably Can't Name the #1 Kid Problem. Discover why conference participants will stand in the doorway, sit on the floor, and even sneak back into the room after being evicted by the fire marshall so they won't miss even a minute of our workshops, keynotes and breakout sessions. Our workshops and keynote will turbo-charge your event.

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The one or two day investment that brings lasting results.
Your staff's most serious kid problems will be answered on the spot with specific interventions. This workshop is more than a crash course. It also builds empathy and patience for even your most trying students.

Our workshop can also be your great fund raiser.
Host a class, and open it to area youth professionals, and charge them a fee to attend. You can train your staff and build your budget at the same time. We even provide a mailing list, flyer master copy, and everything else you need to make your on-site workshop a great training and a great budget builder.

Contact us to receive an information packet, and details on how you can preview our workshop free, without obligation.

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This workshop delivers what it promises.
We can make working with difficult kids less difficult.

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We know our workshop methods work because we've documented the results. Results like this: 10% recidivism on multi-offender teens, 90% on-time class and group attendance, 90% return to school rate for longtime dropouts, 100% employment for older adolescents preparing for independent living. We've even seen school districts win awards after incorporating our methods. We've seen decreases in attendance problems, punctuality problems, detention, expulsion, and in-school suspension. We get calls from staff members with stories of violence avoided because of what they learned in our workshop. We get repeat participants who tell stories of work refusers who now actually show up and complete assignments. We get letters and emails from administrators telling us how our workshop helped shape positive changes in their kids, and even more dramatic changes in staff, who now feel better prepared to effectively work with today's difficult and challenging youth-- proven results we can bring to you.

Proven methods, designed for your setting.
Our methods weren't created in an office but in youth centers, schools, treatment programs and sites just like yours. These approaches will fit perfectly with your existing rules, philosophy, and policies. This is not another trend that will come and go. Instead, this workshop will turn your staff into walking encyclopedias of the newest and best interventions that exist. They will gain a deeper understanding of what makes each youngster "tick", and will discover how to choose the right intervention for the right kid. This workshop takes the guesswork out of youth work, and provides the practical, real-world training that was omitted from your staff's college training. These methods were created in classrooms and offices just like yours so they're designed for your exact setting.

Our presentation is tailored to fit your participants.
Our Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop has been everywhere, from north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska to the southern part of Florida. We've trained youth professionals from Grand Falls Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada to southern Texas border towns. We've trained everyone and anyone who works with troubled and challenged youth and children: from Orange County, Florida teachers to Marion County, Oregon juvenile detention workers; from El Paso, Texas Headstart teachers to New York social workers; from Oklahoma Job Corps trainers to New Orleans charter school teachers. On-site workshops have been sponsored by schools, agencies, conferences, associations, and universities. No matter where you are, or who you are, if you want the most effective methods to turnaround difficult and troubled youth and children, you've found your best solution.

Keynotes, workshops, and breakouts for conferences
We can't promise tears, but our keynote is just that good. So good, that some of your listeners will be moved to tears. Whether used as a rousing opening keynote address or unforgettable, closing send-off, our keynote speaker will grab your participants' attention and give them a conference experience they won't soon forget. Our workshop and customized breakout sessions will be top-rated by your participants who are tired of more theory, and grateful for practical, no-nonsense behavior interventions that actually work. Finally, a refreshing, lively change of pace for your conference, a change that can yield big results for problem and troubled kids.

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On-site sessions have been held throughout N. America.
We've trained conferences like the Texas Alcohol and Drug Counselor Conference (TACADA), Louisiana Families in Need Conference, Iowa Family and Children Coalition, WAVE Youth Professionals Conference, Rochester Alliance for Mental Health Conference, California Court School Educators Conference, California Counseling and Development (CACD) Conference, Oregon Alternative Ed Conference, WA Primary Intervention (PIP) Conference, and the Alliance For Excellence Conference.

We've trained all kinds of schools and agencies from Forks, WA to Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. We've trained Job Corps, Civilian Conservation Corps, juvenile courts, day treatment centers, counseling centers, foster parent programs, group home programs, special ed sites and juvenile justice programs. Recent trainings include Waveland-Bay St. Louis, MS School District; Education Service Ctr. 4, Houston, TX; Maple Lane Juvenile Detention School, Centralia, WA; Tongue Point Job Corps, Astoria, OR; Northside ISD, San Antonio, TX; Boise ID School District; Jefferson County School Counselor Association; Volunteers of America, Portland, OR; PACE Center for Girls, Tallahassee, FL; Ferry Co. Community Services, Republic, WA; and the Youth Development Institute, Minneapolis, MN.

On-site sessions can be arranged for Canada.
Call us toll-free (even from Canada) at 1-800-545-5736, or e-mail us (click here) to get the details of how to set up your session. We will send you our full information packet and sample materials. We can even provide the names of past Canadian sessions and participants. We've trained Canadians from Moncton, NB to to Grand Falls-Windsor, NL to Vancouver, BC We get an especially rousing response from Canadian participants who seem convinced that the course was crafted especially for Canadian kids. The class can be an especially successful fund-raiser in Canada as we don't host Canadian sessions ourselves. When you host a class in Canada, and open it to area youth professionals, it can draw a big crowd of people who otherwise would have to travel far south into the U.S. to attend. Request an on-site information packet via e-mail, or call 1-800-545-5736, which is an easy toll-free call from Canada.

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The Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop is packed with powerful, ready-to-use answers for defiant, aggressive, withdrawn, non-compliant, abused, unmotivated, at-risk and delinquent youth and children grades K-12. If you are a teacher, counselor, special ed instructor, juvenile court worker or mental health staff member, you'll use every word of this problem-stopping inservice workshop.

This professional development workshop delivers what it promises to teachers, counselors, juvenile corrections workers, school safety police, social workers, and foster parents: Ready-to-use, "must have" tools-- even for extreme violence. We give you the 3 types of kids at highest risk of extreme violence like school shootings, then show you how to intervene completely differently with each type. We give preventive strategies that every contemporary youth professional must have in these turbulent times. This is the one training workshop that actually delivers exactly what it promises.

We cover any problem that you request-- even the most serious problems, everything from extreme violence to serious family problems to delinquency to withdrawal to child abuse and self-harm. We'll even provide the "must-have" safety tools you need to understand and intervene with today's severely disturbed and distressed youth. These are real-world answers that you probably didn't learn in college, but need right away to safely do your job.

Working with difficult kids doesn't have to be difficult with our problem-stopping answers. Our attention-grabbing interventions are surprisingly effective, but you can't learn them anywhere else. This continuing ed workshop delivers the newest and best answers, methods that you can use right away. If you're a teacher, counselor, social worker, youth pastor, court worker, psychologist, teaching assistant, principal, special educator, foster parent or justice worker, you won't want to miss even one of our 200 strategies!

If your training prepared you to work with Beaver Cleaver, but you have Beavis and Butthead showing up, we have the answers you need. This practical workshop is different than any other. We really do deliver hundreds of real-world answers that really work. If you work with at-risk, high risk, delinquent, uncooperative, disrespectful, agitated, distressed, sad, or angry youngsters, you will use every word of this seminar. Bring us your worst kid problems-- you'll leave with our best answers.

You'll Get 200 of the Best Strategies That Exist: You'll learn unforgettable devices to motivate the unmotivated. You'll hear fragile students tell what they need to function despite coping with big family problems. You learn no-excuses impulse control devices for delinquent, oppositional, and ADHD students. You'll learn often over-looked methods that teach aggressive kids to moderate their behavior. You'll hear non-compliant kids describe what they need to comply. Plus, we'll show you who is your hardest-to-manage kid, and give dozens of the do's and don't's you weren't taught in college, so you can manage even your most poorly behaved, most at-risk, most violent youngsters. If you have kids with problems, then this unusual professional development workshop has your answers.

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Veteran workshop instructor Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. delivers practical, real-world solutions you can use right away. For nearly two decades, Ruth has trained thousands of youth professionals annually. She's a popular keynote speaker and presenter at national and regional education, justice, social work, counseling and mental health conferences. Ruth is the author of dozens of books and articles. Ruth's work has been featured in top educational speaker The Orlando Sentinel, Monterey Herald, The Oregonian, Adolescence Magazine, The Corrections Compendium, and the Child Welfare Report. Her methods are designed to work when ordinary techniques fail.

Ruth's lively workshops and breakout sessions instantly update your skills to fit contemporary youngsters. Her popular workshop delivers answers for any youngster who is struggling-- even for gang members, battered, uncooperative, truant, apathetic, self-destructive, drug-involved, and severely emotionally disturbed youth and children. Ruth cares about you and your students. She'll flood your staff with the newest and best solutions that exist to reach even unreachable youngsters.

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

"I learned more in two days than in 4 years of college"
Stuart Swenson, Director, Arlington TX Youth Services

"As I was sitting in the seminar, a threat of violence was written on the wall at the high school. I know from the previous seminar I attended by you, that I would have been able to identify suspect students fairly easily...I want to thank Ruth Wells and Youth Change for giving me these tools." Lisa Chreten, Teacher, Oregon

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All comments are quoted from unsolicited letters and workshop evaluations sent to us by on-site workshop sponsors and course participants. We can send you copies of the entire letters and complete evaluations upon request.

"4 years ago I took a group of teachers to your workshop. It changed my life. I gained a new understanding of the students I work with and now share your strategies as part of my new teacher training each year. Your workshop ranks as my number one ever in all my years of education." Kristie McCuston, Vice Principal, Garland, TX

"I have a better understanding of non-compliant behaviors. Now that I realize that it's not a choice they make, I can adjust my reaction to them-- and diffuse them to get more positive results." Leslie Kill, Teacher, Jackson Junior High School, Sundusky, Ohio.

"Thank for presenting at our annual conference. We thought you might enjoy some of the written comments as reflected in the evaluations: 'Very well done,' 'Good ideas,' 'Speaker was wonderful.'" Maria Campisteguy, Executive Director, Council for Hispanic Advancement, Oregon

"I attended a workshop led by Ruth Wells several years ago in Columbus. It was one of the best I ever attended." Cindy Morehead, School Counselor, Zanesville, Ohio

"Really enjoyed the conference where Ruth Wells spoke. I could have listened to her speak for a week..." Katie Riddle, Group Leader, Clarinda Academy, Clarinda, IA

"Everyone without exception, gave high marks to your training. Everyone came up and thanked us and talked about finally having someone help them figure out what to do with some of their students." Bernice Cummings, Director, Career Preparation, Job Corps Operations, Georgia

"I want to thank you for the inservice you presented to my staff...I have been told by several staff that it was the best inservice ever." Catherine Brooks, Director of Education, Children's Center, New Haven, CT

"My staff at PACE Center have incorporated your suggested interventions with great success." Neil Kalthenecker, Program Manager, Leon, Florida

"Ruth's workshops normally have standing room only. She always receives outstanding reviews from workshop participants and conference-goers always ask for us to bring her back." Ann Harrmann, Coalition for Family and Children Services, Des Moines, Iowa

"Most interesting, useful workshop I've ever been to." Phyllis Eccles, Special Ed Teacher, Hillsboro, TX

"I want to thank you for doing an excellent job...A number of staff praised the workshop. One, generally critical staff offered it as the best he had heard." Ed Cavaille, Marion County Family Court Alternative Programs, Salem, Oregon

"Incredibly useful. Inspiring." Caryn Curry, Counselor, Lincoln Elementary School, East Chicago, IN

"Instructor stuffed full of practical, immediately useable ideas." Arthur Fox, Whitworth School, Dallas, OR

"Fantastically practical!" John Taracko, Ohio Dept of Youth Justice Services, Columbus, OH

"Absolutely phenomenal! Very useful information." Jami Giammusso, Lead Trainer, WA Learning Disability Association

"Excellent! These techniques will work with even the most difficult students." Chris Adams, Teacher, Lockhart, TX Schools

"Bam! Pow! Instructor hits you right between the eyes with lots of new approaches, ideas and information." Patty Boland, McGrath School, Napa State Hospital, Napa CA.

"I didn't realize how much useful information could be crammed into 2 days." Charles Groemer, Teacher, Bloomington, IN

"Can't wait to share your ideas with our staff. I loved the way you tailored the interventions to the type of student. It was refreshing to finally attend a workshop where the presenter actually presented and didn't fill the workshop with 'touchy feely' activities with little relevance." Sally McAfee, Coordinator of Alternative Education, Corvallis, OR

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Host an on-site presentation of our Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop for your team and charge others to attend. Build your team while you build your budget. We can provide a flyer and mailing list. Charge whatever registration fee you want and you keep it all. Solve both your kid and budget problems at the same time with this easy fund raiser.

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Q: The Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop looks like exactly what our site needs, but we have no budget. Any ideas?

A: Our workshop may be more affordable than you expect so call us at 1-800-545-5736 and we'll give you an immediate quote. We have quite a few creative ideas to help with budget concerns. We don't just show up and present a workshop. We want to be a resource for you before and after your on-site workshop-- helping manage budget concerns is part of our service.

First, did you notice that you can host the workshop as a fund raiser? That means that you charge area youth professionals to attend. You can charge any amount you wish, and you keep all the tuition you collect. We have extensive resources to assist you to attract participants and break even, or even make money for your budget. We can't promise you would break even or make some profit, but most groups do. We provide a flyer, mail list, and everything you need to publicize your event, all with no extra charge to you. You also can collaborate with another school or agency to sponsor the course, splitting the fee, then the staffs of both agencies attend. Our fee allows for "any" number of participants so you can involve several agencies or schools if you wish. There is more information on this option on our site; click here.

A second suggestion: Ask your local ESD, ESC, SERRC, School District, School Corporation, local college or Board of Ed to host the event and allow your staff to attend. You can offer your facility and staff time to coordinate the event in exchange. National and regional conferences are always looking for excellent courses to include, so consider contacting your Counselor Association, Principal Association, Middle School Association, Social Worker Convention, or Child Welfare Convention conference planner to let them know that you want a practical, real-world offering like the Breakthrough Strategies Workshop to be included.

A third idea: Write a grant to get needed funding. The workshop easily fits for most grants that cover drug and alcohol problems, violence, school improvement, classroom management, special ed, and countless other areas because we cover all types of "kid problems."

Fourth, if you are fortunate enough to have a youth worker advocate group like the Indiana Youth Institute, you can ask that group for financial aid. Local, regional and national groups like the Kiwanis, Elks and Lutheran Brotherhood may be willing to assist, and sometimes media outlets and businesses will demonstrate their commitment to the community by sponsoring the event for you. Don't forget your church either. Groups like these have sponsored the course many times all over the country. Usually, we find that hard work and persistence will get you the funds you need to host the class.

Finally, Youth Change is a socially responsible entity. That means we exist for much more than our financial bottom line. Occasionally, we will donate a portion of our fee to groups who want the class but can't quite make it fit the budget. We prefer to make these donations in Oregon, our base, or in nearby Washington State, but will consider other regions as possible. Give us a call at 1-800-545-5736 so we can chat with you about this option and other innovative ways we can help bring our workshop to your front door.

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PROBLEM-SOLVER TIP

When many of your staff were originally trained, gangs meant "West Side Story," and guns meant water pistols. Even though your students have changed dramatically in the past few years, youth professional training really hasn't. Most colleges do not offer classes like "Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers" and "Controlling Uncontrollable Students". Because training hasn't kept up with the changes in kids, many staff may find their job difficult or impossible.

Targeted, real-world, practical training may be exactly what your team members need to start liking their jobs again, and being as effective as they want to be. If your team members tell you that working with difficult kids is difficult, then consider giving them the new, updated tools they need to successfully teach and counsel contemporary youth. If retaining staff members is tougher than ever, let us help. Updating your team's skills is a far more affordable, positive option than having to hire new staff members. Plus, the benefits that will flow to your students may be immeasurable. Once staff have better tools, your children will instantly benefit. While it's true that frustrated workers can easily go elsewhere, this training can stop the frustration, and help your staff members renew their commitment and passion for working with youth and children. Keep your staff committed, empowered and on board by turbo-charging their skills: bring the Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop to your site. Give your team the new tools they need to successfully work with today's youth.