Ruth's passionate, emotional keynote and lively breakout sessions will make your next event your best event.
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Ruth Herman Wells, M.S.
"Incredibly useful.
Inspiring."
Caryn Curry, School Counselor, East
Chicago IN
"So many good ideas, I couldn't write fast enough."
Diana Iborg, Teacher, O'Fallon, MO
"Tons of useful information"
LauriAnn Rosenblatt, ELL Facilitator, Phoenix AZ
"Best bang for my buck ever."
Deborah Young, Behavior Specialist, Sacramento, CA
"Great! You promised relevant information and you delivered"
Beth Porter, Counselor, Bogart, GA
A Veteran Counselor
Who Became a Veteran Author, Trainer, and Keynote Speaker
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of landmark books and ebooks on working with violent, withdrawn, angry, delinquent, homeless and abused children and youth.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 Director of
Youth Change Workshops, and the
creator of Youth Change's award-winning Problem Kid Problem-Solver website (click),
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 and
speaking to educators, school counselors, therapists, teachers, principals, psychologists,
social workers, and special ed teachers. Ruth speaks at conferences,
school districts, agencies, universities, schools, 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 students. She can come to your conference and make a difference for both your
staff and children.
Here are some of the thousands of places in North America where Ruth Herman Wells has
provided workshops, breakouts, and keynote addresses:
Orange County Schools, Orlando, Florida
California Court School Conference, Tahoe, California
Texas Principal Academy Conference/Education Service Center 10, Rockwall, TX
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
Diocese of Erie Conference, Eric, Pennsylvania
Region 5 Family Resource Center Conference, Lexington, Kentucky
Lincoln Hall Correctional Institute, Lincolndale, New York
Here are some of Ruth Herman Wells' most popular, top-rated breakout sessions:
Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers
What to Do About Bullies (It's Not What You Think)
Spot and Stop Extreme Violence Before It Starts
How to Keep Kids in the Classroom and Out of the Principal's Office
How to Transform Kids into Students
Everything They Don't Teach Teachers in College That Teachers Desperately Need to Know
Build a Better New School Year
Control Uncontrollable Students
View the entire list of Ruth's breakout workshops here; new window opens.
Read about Ruth's lyrical, inspiring keynote for educators here; new window opens.
talking about Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. And soon your event participants will
be talking about her too because Ruth will turbo-charge your next 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 workshops 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 or information-packed, problem-solving breakout workshop, call toll-free to
1-800-545-5736, or
Ruth's passionate, emotional keynote and lively breakout sessions will make your next event your best event.
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