TEEN TRUTH is excited to announce a new partnership with Desiree Phillips and SELF ESTEEM FOR TEENS. The programs they offer empower youth, build character, promote self-awareness, encourage healthy habits, and raise self-esteem. They take everyday media subjects, such as movies, music, and modeling and de-mystify their surface value. For over 20 years, Desiree has helped teens learn to love themselves more and now, her program will integrate all of our films into their workshops, helping us reach even more students with TEEN TRUTH's powerful message. And participants will be able to ...

TEEN TRUTH LIVE Co-creators/Speakers JC Pohl and Erahm Christopher MAKE A DIFFERENCE and meet some new friends after delivering the key note address at the UNION PACIFIC PRINCIPAL'S PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE in Palm Springs on July 14th. Pictured (L-R): JC Pohl, Ryan Belflower, George Grams - Principal in New Braunfels, TX, Erahm Christopher, and Ryan's mom Shauna.

Everybody liked Jesse Graham. Easy with a smile, he was a prankster, a joker and a music lover with a taste so eclectic it stretched from hip hop to the geezer bands in his dad's record collection. He made friends easily and was unwaveringly loyal to those close to him. At the Perth McDonald's where he worked, he was invariably cheerful and friendly and could even muster a joke or two during the pre-dawn hours of the early shift. On the few occasions his supervisors came close to getting angry with him, he would ...

2010 CLIENT APPRECIATION WINNER TEEN TRUTH congratulates this year's client appreciation winner! This year's winner is PATTI FORRESTER of Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School in Moraga, CA! Patti was one of the many educators who returned our TEEN TRUTH 2009-2010 Client Survey Form. She was randomly selected to win a free iPod Shuffle! CONGRATS TO PATTI and thanks to everyone who entered this contest!

The cameras were rolling, documenting the unscripted candor of Rancho Milpitas Middle School students and parents as they discussed family communication for an upcoming educational film set to launch around the country. Teen Truth Live, an organization created to give students a voice and empower them to make a difference, is expected to release "Teen Truth: Parents and Family Communication" early next year. The fourth film in the Teen Truth series, directed by Erahm Christopher and produced by JC Pohl, follows the series' signature student-shot style to show how real teenagers and ...

HELP US WIN! TEEN TRUTH Needs Your Help! We've just been accepted to compete for a $100,000 Pepsi Refresh Project grant that will help us bring TEEN TRUTH LIVE to 60,000 students in Canada. Voting is now open to the public through August 30th. Help us win by CASTING YOUR VOTE HERE! (www.refresheverything.ca/teentruth) TEEN TRUTH is also supporting 4th grade teacher Emilie Robichon's Saint Simone Apotre Elementary School proposal to bring a stop-motion animation film project to her class. To help the school win a $5,000 grant, VOTE HERE! Share these links with everyone you ...

TEEN TRUTH Film Wins National Award! We're excited to announce that our film, TEEN TRUTH: BODY IMAGE & SELF ESTEEM, recently brought home the Bronze during the 31st Telly Awards! Congrats to the cast and crew who worked so hard to bring this film together. We would also like to specially thank our supporting organizations: The Efrain Anthony Marrero Foundation, The Taylor Hooton Foundation, The Kristen Watt Foundation, and Hopewell

The girl’s parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text messages: a dozen shocking, sexually explicit threats, sent to their daughter the previous Saturday night from the cellphone of a 12-year-old boy. Both children were sixth graders at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J. Punish him, insisted the parents. “I said, ‘This occurred out of school, on a weekend,’” recalled the principal, Tony Orsini. “We can’t discipline him.” Had they contacted the boy’s family, he asked. Too awkward, they replied. The fathers coach sports together. What about the police, Mr. Orsini asked. A criminal ...

STOCKTON - To his friends, his family and the children in his neighborhood, Daniel Ausborne was a protector. "If he heard someone was getting picked on, he'd go take care of it," said Phil Campos, Ausborne's friend and first employer. Ausborne, 18, had been bullied for years, targeted for his learning disability, said his mother, Lars Kitcher. That treatment followed him through two high schools, and his death in May, after a shooting at American Legion Park, was just that, not a dispute between taggers, his friends and family said, but the ...

Elk Grove Unified School District teachers gave overwhelming approval Tuesday night to a two-year contract that included a pay cut, nine furlough days, an increase in their medical co-pay and the suspension of an annual bonus from lottery funds. There was 89 percent approval for the contract, said Tom Gardner, president of the Elk Grove Education Association. In return, the district agreed to cap class sizes in kindergarten through third grade at 24 and save 210 teacher and librarian jobs. "We have a history that we work cooperatively with our administration," Gardner said. "We don't have an interest in bankrupting our district. It's ...