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Teen-Aid, Inc.

723 E. Jackson
Spokane, WA 99207
509-482-2868

LeAnna Benn

LeAnna Benn, National Director and Co-founder of one of the first and largest abstinence education programs is available to speak in your community. As a pioneer, since 1981 and strategist, she helps groups get organized and motivated. Her ability to build coalitions and develop strategic plans has assisted in the growth of many of the finest abstinence education providers across the country. She sees the big picture yet knows the details to build success in others.

LeAnna speaks to parents with conviction, teaches teens with compassionate enthusiasm and works tirelessly with schools on implementation, evaluation and problem solving. She trains educators with a passion for replicating her expertise in character development and in delivering the social skills needed to achieve abstinence and fidelity.

René Rochester

René Rochester is the founder and president of Urban S.E.T. (Strengthening, Educating and Training). Dr. Rochester believes that mere motivational hype is not enough. Her presentations are designed to give a broad perspective and educate young people on how to learn. In the span of one hour, René Rochester will demonstrate purpose, teach responsible decision making, and draw out potential so that young people can see it, touch it and own it. René is a former University of Texas Lady Longhorn basketball and track member. With fifteen years teaching experience, René has been a high school health educator, coach and athletic director. She has consulted with public and private inner city schools as well as other urban organizations and juvenile justice systems.

Jeffrey Dean – Tennessee

Motivational Speaker, Singer, Songwriter, Author, Assembly, Concerts, Conferences, Camps

•Addresses issues teenagers face pertaining to dating, love, sex, pressure

• Bold challenge to students to make wise decisions during these years and to make a commitment to be sexually pure within their relationships

• Specifics on the consequences of a sexually active lifestyle and the lies many teenagers are hearing today in this “sex-glamorized” society.

Audio, Video, CD available

Dr. Ray Short

Dr. Ray Short speaks to approximately 100 groups of up to 60,000 people a year. His popular topics include: Sex, Love or Romance: How Can I Really Know?; How Far is Too Far?; How Parents/Youth Can Talk About Sex and Love; How to Counsel About Sex, Love and Relationships. Dr. Short is Emeritus Professor of Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, and is an author, lecturer, counselor and college teacher of Marriage and Family, here and abroad. Dr. Short has done wide research on how to tell real love from romance and sex attraction.

Mike Long

Mike Long has spoken at thousands of fundraising banquets, parent/teen conferences, community programs, school assemblies, and youth rallies nationwide. His approach has proven quite effective for those he reaches. He has also appeared on many radio and television news shows and he has produced many successful television specials for various cable networks including CNN, ABC, NBC, TNN and MTV.

Gary Swant

Gary Swant taught biology and sex education for 25 years in the public school system. He founded SAFE (Sexual Abstinence & Family Education, Inc. with the specific goal of facilitating parents to be responsible for their children’s sex education. His 90 minute “Teens at Risk” presentation deals with why comprehensive sex education has failed and directive abstinence education works. Most importantly, he stresses the positive reasons to abstain, practical dating rules, skills for saying no, how to combat the sexual “lines”, and ways to improve and strengthen parent/child communication. This positive presentation for parents and teens concerning sexual abstinence until marriage will produce results.

Jim DeGroot

 Motivational Educator – teens, parents.

 Jim brings a unique style in educating and encouraging teens that Abstinence until Marriage is the BEST choice. Encourages parents to go for it, to risk it and communicate to their own teen about the issues of sex and abstinence.

 Jim’s seminar includes:

Ø      Defining what is love?

Ø      Three risks we take if we have sex before marriage,

Ø      The top ten ways to abstain until marriage,

Ø      A closing that encourages those who are virgins, challenges those who are in relationships to consider the risk, and gives hope to those who have already been active through explaining and challenging those teens to commit to secondary virginity.

 Jim’s Seminar, is just that, a seminar that can be done in a classroom or in an assembly setting. Including power point and fill in the blank notes for students. This educational presentation is fun, humorous, and drives home the message that abstinence until marriage is the best choice. Your teens will not only enjoy the presentation, but they will remember it and be motivated to apply the information to their lives.

 “Jim’s presentation was the best we have ever had come to our school!”

         – East Jr. High School., Butte, MT.  8^th grade teacher

Rodrick Glover – Antioch, TN

Abstinence is a concept that Rodrick Glover hopes to make universal. Glover, a motivational speaker, has committed his life to helping people abstain from unhealthy choices in life through his Motivations drama group. Glover’s target audience is young people, particularly teenagers and college students. His group travels to schools, colleges and youth conferences across the country to perform. Their performances are a blend of motivational speaking, with Glover talking to the audience, and drama with members of the group acting out various scenarios in which teens may find themselves.