Professional Development Resource

Choose a

Veteran Speaker and Counselor

to Train Your Staff

Don't let your staff be trained by someone who learned about troubled kids by sitting in an office.

Get training from a veteran counselor, program manager, author and speaker.  Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. began her career as a counselor working in locked settings with the most severely troubled youth in Oregon.

In her 30 years as a counselor, supervisor and program director, Ruth has seen thousands of lost, battered, unwanted, troubled and throwaway youth and children. She has specific "real-world," immediately-useful answers for every imaginable "kid problem."

If your staff's training prepared them to work with Beaver Cleaver, but Beavis and Butthead show up, then upgrade your staff's training to fit contemporary students.

Full day, part day, and breakout sessions are available on every social, school, emotional or behavior problem that you face.

Ruth's specialties include solutions for work refusers, depression, violence, cyberbullying, family problems, truancy, and school failure– but Ruth can't solve your problems unless you call her. Call now: 1.800.545.5736, or email.

An Intensely Personal,

Evocative Keynote

Book the one keynote speaker who will take the time to learn about your event and your participants' needs.

Instead of a canned keynote given in hundreds of cities, Ruth Herman Wells will learn about your participants' deepest concerns and most insurmountable barriers, then she'll craft a keynote that is intensely personal and profoundly evocative.

Ruth will leave your participants utterly recommitted to their jobs and ready to face another year doing the most important work on the planet– educating and helping children and youth.

Entitled Doing the Impossible Just Takes a Little Bit Longer, Ruth Herman Wells' keynote will leave some of your staff in tears, and others will postpone retirement to another year.

If you want a lyrical, unusual keynote that will grab your participants' attention and not let go, contact Youth Change now while Ruth still has your conference date open. Call 1.800.545.5736, or click to email.

What People Say

About Youth Change Workshops

 "A treasure chest
of motivational tools"

Monterey Herald Newspaper
July, 2002
Monterey, California

"I've worked in the residential care setting for years. I wish that I had found your training sooner. The many interventions that side-step oppositional tendencies are wonderful. The creativity of the ideas really appeals to me, and would, I think, to anyone who works with children and families."

  Phyllis Stamplowski, Social Worker
  Seattle, Washington

"I have bought some of your materials and I've just really depended on your information for over ten years now. I think you do exceptional work. Thank-you for all that you do and offer to us out here on the front lines."

  Cathy Harper, Youth Career Counselor
    Sonora, California

Youth Change's Workshop Trainer
Ruth Herman Wells, M.S.
Ranked #3 Top Elementary Ed Speaker,
#9 Teacher Motivation Speaker,
 #9 Inservice Speaker in the U.S. in 2011.

SpeakerWiki and SpeakerMix
January and October, 2011

Youth Change's
A Child's Guide to Surviving in a Troubled Family
is 1 of the Top 100 Books
on Domestic Violence

The Online Dictionary of Mental Health
August, 2012

"Step-by-step lesson plans and handouts. Good tips on approaching difficult topics."

Youth Today Newspaper
March, 1993
 

"Brings innovative and creative techniques for teachers, counselors, parents and other adults from the realm of ideas to hard core reality."

California Association of
Counseling and Development
Newspaper, 1994,
Los Angeles California