TEEN TRUTH: VOICES - This is an exclusive film called "Life is Precious" directed by Valerie Ndong Mengue which is an Honorable Mention from the 2011 TEEN TRUTH Film Festival. The Public Service Announcement is short but sweet providing a public awareness about sexual transmitted diseases.
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“Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.” - RUMI
We all get stressed out. Between work, school and family, sometimes there’s little time for ourselves, let alone time to breathe and come back to center.
When I began yoga over 13 years ago, I ignored the parts relating to the breath. I told myself, "Well I'll just learn how to put myself into an upside-down ...
TEEN TRUTH filmmaking team, Erahm Christopher and JC Pohl, recommend the following film because it made them think...
BIG FISH
Directed by: Tim Burton
Novel by: Daniel Wallace
Screenplay by: John August
Just in time for Father's Day, this touching movie tells the fantastical story of Will Bloom and his ailing father, Ed. Incredulous at his father's preposterously wild tales, Will discovers that not everything Ed says is myth. This movie made us THINK about the power of LOVE and how when we're open to the TRUTHS of others, we can
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When a person says addiction, right away the thoughts of drugs and alcohol come to mind. It seems like a valid assumption, doesn’t it? In all honesty, sometimes I wish I would have been addicted to a cliché vice instead of my own. I know that if I could go back in time and change my past I would. No hesitations. No questions asked. I would turn back the clock and watch as my scars faded away into ...
The life of a teenager can be a beautiful, memorable and unique experience, but not everything is as picture perfect as all the movies seem to make it. The common teenager encounters a various number of different experiences and emotions that can create stress, such as peer pressure, household problems, and the simple act of growing up. All these factors build up and become a burden in the teen’s life. Most people, when faced with a dilemma, express their thoughts to a friend or loved one. However, there ...
TEEN TRUTH: INSIGHT - Two Students at a California high school explain the C.A.R.E Counseling Program and their roles. The counselors are there to provide a place where students can go to talk about their problems.
TEEN TRUTH: VOICES - This is an exclusive screening of the film "Skeleton, You are my Friend" directed by Amber Lincoln which is the winner of the TRUTH award. The film is about a teenager having a skeleton for a friend because he has no real friends. He decides to try to make new friends while nearly smashing his old "best friend" to pieces.
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Working in law enforcement you get accustomed to dealing with bad things. Too many years of this and it's easy to see how you can become less hopeful about changing the human condition of suffering or even victimization.
When I started working in the schools as a School Resource Officer (SRO an amazing transformation for me began