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Breakthrough Strategies to Teach & Counsel Troubled Youth
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The Breakthrough Strategies to Teach & Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop delivers 200 ready-to-use, more effective strategies to turnaround defiant, unmotivated, difficult, truant, violent, conduct disordered, oppositional, emotionally disturbed, depressed, non-compliant, learning disabled, and withdrawn youth and children ages 5 through 18. This workshop offers updated, innovative solutions that are more effective than conventional approaches.

If you are a teacher, counselor, special educator, social worker, psychologist, juvenile court worker, foster parent, or anyone workshop workbook who works with hard-to-reach, hard-to-manage youth and children, you will use every word of this workshop. Workshop participants will be asked to name the specific problem areas and ages that they want to cover during the course, and will walk out the door at the end of the seminar with 200 powerful, problem-stopping answers. The course workbook (shown here) includes interventions and resources from our popular books, including our best selling Temper and Tantrum Tamers (pictured.)

Everything that you need to know about our Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth professional development workshop is right here on this page. If you have a question that we don't answer here, or want to talk to a live person, call us toll-free at 1-800-545-5736, click here for live on-line help, or We will be happy to assist you.

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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
May 7-8, 2009....Holiday Inn Express Sea Tac

Our last Seattle workshop was full, so we are expecting to have a full seminar for this new event. Early registration is suggested for this workshop. It will be our only professional development event in the Northwest for Spring 2009. Workshop session times are 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM on Thursday and Friday. The address is 19621 International Blvd. in Sea Tac. Click here to get a map and customized directions to the workshop. We have a special, low conference rate on guest rooms. Call the hotel at 206-824-3200 to reserve a guest room at the special rate for our workshop. Register for the seminar at $169 for both days, or $129 for one day. Your conference tuition includes a 24 page workbook full of surprisingly powerful behavior lesson plans and innovative, attention-grabbing worksheets that you just can't get anywhere else. Or sign up at $259 and you will also receive our entire 11 volume Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Book Series (click here for details on the series; a new window opens.) That series has nearly all of our popular behavior change lessons plans and accompanying handouts. Getting the series with your workshop registration saves more than $50 over purchasing these items separately. We even pay your shipping, insurance and tax. Limited half-price work study slots are only $84, but they are given out only by phone. It takes just a quick toll-free call to 1-800-545-5736 to grab one. Grad and undergrad credit will be available for this professional development seminar for $43 tuition. You can also earn credit and clock hours through our recorded course. We plan to also offer 10 social worker, psychologist, LPC, counselor, and therapist clock hours at no fee. 10 Washington State Teacher Clock Hours (CEUs) will be offered for $15. Most clock hours are also usually available from our recorded workshop. To get more information on the DVD version of the workshop, just click here. To register or ask questions, call toll-free 1-800-545-5736, or e-mail us by clicking here.

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PORTLAND, OREGON
October 8-9, 2009 ...Holiday Inn Portland South

Be sure to be in Portland for our next Oregon inservice conference. Seminar times are 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM on Thursday and Friday. Our Portland professional development workshops almost always over-fill so early registration is strongly suggested. The hotel is very easy to find. It is located at 15700 SW Upper Boones Ferry Rd. in Lake Oswego/Tigard, just south of downtown Portland. Just head west off of I-5 Exit 219 in Lake Oswego/Tigard, and almost immediately, you turn into the hotel parking lot. You only have to drive a few seconds from I-5. For more detailed directions, you can call the hotel at 503-620-2980, or click here for a map and driving directions. This is a wonderful hotel, and they have given us an excellent guest room rate for a room with a microwave, refrigerator and more. Plus, the hotel will feed you a terrific breakfast in the beautiful Hayden's Lakefront Grill. You will have to tell the hotel that you are coming to the conference to get this special rate. Register for the professional development conference at $169 for both days, or $129 for one day. Your tuition includes a 24 page workbook full of surprisingly powerful behavior lesson plans and innovative, attention-grabbing worksheets that you just can't get anywhere else. Or sign up at $259 and you will also receive our entire 11 volume Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Book Series (click here for details on the series; a new window opens.) That series has nearly all of our popular behavior change lessons plans and accompanying handouts. Getting the series with your registration saves more than $50 over purchasing these items separately. We even pay your shipping, insurance and tax. Limited half-price work study slots are only $84, but they are given out only by phone. It takes just a quick toll-free call to 1-800-545-5736 to grab one. Grad and undergrad credit will be available for this seminar from Portland State University for $50 tuition. You can also earn credit through our recorded course. Oregon teachers should be able to earn 10-20 PDUs. Washington teachers can earn 10 CEUs for a $15 charge. We plan to also offer 10 social worker, counselor, and therapist clock hours at no fee. Most clock hours are also usually available from our video/DVD course. To get more information on the video/DVD of the class, just click here. To register or ask questions, call toll-free 1-800-545-5736, or e-mail us by clicking here.

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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
April 23-24, 2009....Fairfield Inn by Marriott

Plan to come to our next Kansas City, Missouri seminar this fall. You can register at 9:00 AM. Seminar times are 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM on Thursday and Friday. The hotel is located near the airport at 11820 NW Plaza Circle in Kansas City. Click here for driving directions and a map of the hotel's location. If you fly in, the hotel will pick you up at the airport at no charge. We have a special low conference rate on guest rooms. You must call the hotel to request special low rates of just $84 per night for our workshop. This rate is good for either a Queen or King room, and includes breakfast. Reach the Fairfield Inn at 816-464-2424. Register for the workshop for $169 for both days, or $129 for one day. Your seminar tuition includes a 24 page workbook full of surprisingly powerful behavior lesson plans and innovative, attention-grabbing worksheets that you just can't get anywhere else. Or sign up for the seminar for $259 and you will also receive our entire 11 volume Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Book Series (click here for details on the series; a new window opens.) That series has nearly all of our popular behavior change lessons plans and accompanying handouts. Getting the series with your registration saves more than $50 over purchasing these items separately. We even pay your shipping, insurance and tax. Limited half-price work study seminar slots are only $84, but they are given out only by phone. It takes just a quick toll-free call to 1-800-545-5736 to grab one. Grad and undergrad credit will be available for this workshop for $55 tuition. You can also earn credit and clock hours through our recorded workshop. We will also have 10 psychologist, LPC, counselor amd MFT hours at no fee for both Kansas and Missouri professionals. Call us at 1-800-545-5736 if you have questions about earning the hours you need at our workshop. Most clock hours are also usually available from our recorded workshop. To get more information on the DVD version of the workshop, just click here. To register or ask questions, call toll-free 1-800-545-5736, or e-mail us by clicking here.

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Most CEUS can also be earned from our recorded workshop. CEU rules can change. You may wish to verify information with your governing jurisdiction. If you don't see the CEUs you want listed here, call us-- we may have them, or we can seek approval. Call 1-800-545-5736 toll-free with any questions, click for live on-line help, or click here to e-mail us.

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It's fast and easy to register, Basic tuition is just $169. We even have half-price work study slots open to everyone for just $84. All it takes is a quick call to 1-800-545-5736. Register by toll-free phone: 1-800-545-5736. Register online by clicking here, or by email (click here).
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$169 for 2 days, $259 for 2 days with 11 book Breakthrough Strategies Series set, $129 for 1 day. Purchase orders, checks, debit cards, Mastercard, Visa & American Express accepted. Checks payable to Youth Change.

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Bring your most serious kid problems with you, and you'll receive hundreds of practical, problem-stopping, ready-to-use interventions on the spot. This professional development inservice delivers the best answers for your worst kids problems.
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The Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop is packed with powerful, ready-to-use answers for aggressive, withdrawn, non-compliant, abused, unmotivated, at-risk and delinquent youth grades K-12. If you are a teacher, counselor, sped instructor, court worker or mental health staff member, you will use every word of this professional development workshop.

This professional development conference delivers what it promises to teachers, counselors, justice 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 counselor-teacher training workshop that actually delivers exactly what it promises.

We'll cover any problem that you request-- even the most difficult and serious problems, everything from extreme violence to serious family problems to depression 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 get in college, but need right away to safely and pro-actively 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 and you can't learn them anywhere else. This professional development workshop delivers the newest and best answers that you can use right away. If you are a teacher, counselor, social worker, 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 professional development 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, sad or angry youngsters, you will use every word of this conference. Bring us your worst kid problems-- you'll leave with the best answers that exist. Whether you are a teacher, special educator, counselor, psychologist, foster parent, social worker or classroom aide, our class delivers RESULTS, RESULTS, RESULTS!

You'll Get 200 of the Best Strategies That Exist: You'll learn unforgettable devices to motivate the unmotivated. You'll hear kids tell what they need to function despite coping with big family problems. You learn no-excuses impulse control devices for delinquent, oppositional and hyperactive kids. You'll learn often over-looked methods that convince 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 were never taught in college, so you can best manage even your most poorly behaved, most at-risk, and aggressive youngsters!

If you're worried about the violence, withdrawal, family problems, depression, ADD, ADHD, school failure and apathy, then make the 2 day investment that will pay off all year long. We've had participants crisscross the U.S., drive from Chicago to Dallas, fly in from Japan, crash full sessions, and brave winter snow storms to attend this class, and actually say "It was worth the trip!" If you have kids with problems, then this unusual professional development workshop has your answers.

Instructor

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 is a popular keynote speaker and featured presenter at national education, justice and mental health conference events. Ruth is the author of dozens of books and articles. Ruth's work has been featured in The Orlando Sentinel, Monterey Herald, The Oregonian, Adolescence Magazine, The Corrections Compendium, and the Child Welfare Report. Her methods are designed to work when conventional approaches fail. Her most popular books include The Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Series and All the Best Answers for the Worst Kid Problems (click to view).

Ruth's lively professional development workshop instantly updates your skills to fit the contemporary kid. Her workshop delivers answers for any youngster who is struggling-- even for gang members, teen parents, apathetic, self-destructive, drug-involved and disturbed youth and children. Ruth cares about you and your students. She will flood you with the newest and best solutions that exist to reach even your most unreachable youngsters. You bring the problems. Ruth will bring your answers.

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COLLEGE CREDIT & CLOCK HOURS

Earn college graduate or undergraduate credit for just $55, and you can get 10 free clock hours. Get the best answers to turnaround troubled youth while you earn college credit and clock hours. Our live workshops (click here), recorded classes (click here), and on-site inservices have credit and clock hours available (click here).
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University graduate or undergraduate credit can be earned from the live or recorded inservice workshop, $55 tuition. Call 1-800-545-5736 or e-mail with questions (a new window will open.)

CEUs are available for both the live and recorded professional development workshop. Call 1-800-545-5736 or e-mail us (a new window will open) to check if you can earn the CEUs you need via our recorded or live professional development workshop if you don't see the hours you need listed here.

The credentials shown below are normally available but consult our workshop flyer (click here) for the latest details for each city where the inservice is being presented. Or, you can also look at the "Workshop Locations" section higher up on this page (click here), then scroll to the listing for the city you wish to attend. Clock hours are listed for each city. Most counselor and teacher professional development CEUs do not have an extra charge; we will show exceptions on the workshop flyer, and also below, as that information is available. This information can change quickly. Before registering consider consulting your counselor, social worker, or teacher professional board, and our workshop flyer to be sure you have the most accurate, up-to-date information:

20 Oregon PDUs (Teachers Professional Development Units) from live or recorded workshop if you take course for college credit, 10 PDUs for live or recorded workshop without college credit. Oregon counselors may earn 10 hours from live or video/DVD workshop; class designed to meet requirements for Oregon counselors. Oregon drug and alcohol counselors can earn 10 ACCBO Category 2 ACCBO accepted Continuing Ed Hours. MO teachers can earn 1 CEU for live or video/DVD course with local approval. 10 NASW Missouri approved CEUs for social workers. MN licensed school personnel can earn 10 hours for the live or video/DVD workshop with local okay. Approved MN Board of Social Work 11 CEHs for live workshop. KS Educator relicensing via college credit with local okay. 10 WA Teacher CEUs are $15. 10 Teacher, Counselor and Social Worker Professional Development Clock Hours in most states. 10 WA Counselor Chemical Dependency Hours. 10 Kentucky Education Leadership Hours. 10 California Board of Behavior Science CEUs for social workers and counselors (LCSWs, Supervisors, MFTs.) For additional information on college credit and continuing education hours, click here and a new window will open

Can't attend a live workshop? Earn 10 hours from our recorded workshop on DVD or video. Whatever professional development continuing ed options you need, let us know. We can help.

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

"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

"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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"I just want to say how much I learned in the seminar. Ironically, 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

"The information is fabulous and extremely helpful. All teachers need to hear your information across the U.S. and I would love for our teachers to have that opportunity. Every time I asked a question, you seemed to answer it before I could ask?! Magic?" Wendy Wright, Counselor, Whitney School District, Whitney, TX

"We were desperate and there is now hope." Sandra Carpenter, Teacher, Lancaster High School, Lancaster, OH

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

"I attended a workshop several years ago...5, 6 or 7 years...I don't quite remember. But I remember the impact that workshop made on me like it was yesterday. I remember you handing out little strips of paper, giving each workshop participant about 15 pieces of paper, with a wide range of problems young people face every day. Some were simply life situations, grandmother's death, argument with best friend. But some were so horrific...being molested, being hungry with no food in the future, being beaten. I realized that day that I never know what a kid may be facing everyday. So thank you again for that lesson that I have kept with me every day in working with my kids." Cathy Harper, Mother Lode Job Training, Sonora, CA.

"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

"10 on a scale of 1 to 10. I have been working with pre-school children, Headstart and High School students as a tutor. This session was very beneficial for me and the other academic instructors. I wouldn't change anything. It was great." Elisa Mendoza, Coolidge High School District, Coolidge, AZ

"This was a great course. Lots of practical, easy to implement ideas. Very pro-student, which will affect teachers. I loved it and I am so glad that I was able to convince my boss to allow me to come." Darlene Bobrosky, Dean, Junior School, St. Andrews, Nassau, Bahamas

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

"Because there has been such a huge change in students today vs. students from the 70's, 80's and 90's, much more of this information needs to be available to all educators." Rose Hansen, Teacher, Mesa AZ Public Schools Alternative Ed

"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

Who in the World Has Attended the Workshop?

Cincinnati Public Schools, Victoria TX Job Training Program, Portland OR Public Schools, Division of Children and Families (IN), Houston (TX) ISD, Atterbury (IN) Job Corps, River Oak Treatment Center (CA),Davis (CA) Unified School District, Sacramento CA Schools, Great Seal Family Center, (OH), Orange County FL Public Schools, California Youth Authority, Oregon Youth Authority, Ohio Dept. Justice Services, Multnomah County OR Juvenile Court, WA ESD 112 , Monterey Co CA Mental Health, Sacramento CA Office of Education, Pulaski VA Police Dept. Juv. Services, Tongue Point Job Corps, Boise ID Public Schools....and schools, alternative schools, special education coops, agencies, foster homes, juvenile courts, job corps, mental health centers, day treatment centers and residential programs all over North America.

If you are a teacher, counselor, psychologist, aide, foster parent, court worker, residential worker, day treatment worker, social worker, probation officer, parole officer or someone who works with challenged kids, the Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop has the answers you need.