Programs by Dr. Sroka

The POWER of ONE:
Making your Schools and Communities Safe and Drug Free
Because Safe and Healthy Students Learn More

Audience:
Dr. Sroka talks to students kindergarten through college, parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, school nurses, school psychologists, school counselors, student assistance professionals, school resource officers, social workers, physicians, lawyers, and professional and community organizations, including the faith and business communities, with age and community appropriate messages. His goal is “total community immersion” to impact everyone because safe and healthy students learn more.

Program Descriptions:
His programs utilize a high energy, multimedia, didactic, behavioral approach which appeals to multiple (including emotional) intelligences. It is a prevention education presentation that is research-driven and reality-based. It integrates cutting-edge research (including brain-based learning, media literacy, character education, resiliency and youth and asset development) with humor and inspiring real-life stories to facilitate learning about students’ mental, emotional, social and physical health needs and issues, such as sex, drugs, and violence prevention. The goals are to help teach life skills and increase academic achievement. The participants leave with an unforgettable message that with education, helping one another, and believing in oneself, one can change schools, communities and lives.

Student Programs:
Age and community appropriate, culturally sensitive, tailored to your audience. Suggested titles include:
    K-3              (20-30 min)   Be Safe and Healthy and Don’t Eat Boogers!
    4-5               (30-40 min)   Good News about Bad Things
    6-8               (40-60 min)   Stop the Violence - Pump Up the Peace!
    9-College    (40-60 min)    Lessons You May Not Get a Second Chance to Learn
   Student Leadership: The POWER of ONE - Doing the Right Thing, Right Now!

Adult/Professional/Community Programs:
Keynotes, 1-6 hrs seminars, tailored to your audience. Suggested titles include:
•  It Takes a Child to Raze a Village: Proficiency or Reality Testing?
•  Keeping Kids Safe and Healthy in a Toxic Society
•  Using Brain-Based Learning to Reach and Teach the Whole Child
•  The POWER of ONE - Making a Difference! 
•  Making Sure No Child is Left on His or Her Behind
•  Getting to the Heart of Education-Listening to the Whole Child
•  Teaching to a T (An innovative, interactive, and inspirational technique to help develop the skills to build relationships, partnerships and leadership. This strategy has been successfully used for student and staff trainings at the local, state, national, and international levels as well as for community and business organizations. It has been used successfully with the most reluctant learners and in areas with students with high dropout rates, as well as with in-services for the highest-level administrators of state departments of education and health.)

Features of the Programs:  
• Audience – targets total community involvement
• Objectives – awareness, education, prevention, intervention, advocacy, evaluation
• Research-driven, reality-based – uses research tested strategies (including brain-based learning, media literacy, character education, resiliency) in real-life situations
• Student-oriented – stresses age appropriate messages for abstinence from sex, drugs, and violence, emphasizing the power of one to change the future
• Community-based – reflects community needs and values while stressing the 3 F’s – family, friends, and faith (asset and youth development programs)
• Collaborative – stresses cooperation between existing organizations
• Evaluation of programs encouraged

Selected National/International Conferences where Dr. Sroka was a keynote or featured speaker. See Testimonials for more.
American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences
American Association of School Administrators
American Camp Association
Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Association of American Schools of Central America, Colombia, Caribbean and Mexico

Association of Legal Administrators
Association for the Advancement of International Education
Drug Enforcement Administration
Drug Abuse Resistance Education
Federal Bar Association
Indian Health Service
International Conference on AIDS

International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention
International Swine Flu Conference
National African American School Board Member Association
National Alliance of Black School Educators
National Association of Teen Institutes

National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
National Association of School Nurses
National Association of School Resource Officers
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National At-Risk Education Network

National Crime Prevention Council
National Dropout Prevention Network
National Indian School Board Association
National Johnson-O’Malley Association
National Middle School Association

National PTA
National Student Safety & Security
National Youth At-Risk
Partnership for Indian Education
PRIDE World Drug Prevention

Rearden Educational
School Safety Advocacy Council
School Social Work Association of America
The Council of State Governments
The Principals’ Partnership

United National Indian Tribal Youth
US Department of Education-Office of Indian Education
US Drug Enforcement Administration
Youth Crime Watch of America

Contact Information

Dr. Stephen Sroka
President, Health Education Consultants
1284 Manor Park Avenue
Lakewood, OH 44107
216.521.1766
216.521.1766 fax
DrSSroka@aol.com

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