Because safe and healthy people
learn more and live better:
Research-based programs that educate, motivate and inspire.

Audience:
Dr. Sroka talks to students K- college, parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, school nurses, school psychologists, school counselors, school transportation 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 people learn more and live better where everyone works together.

Program Descriptions:
Dr. Stephen Sroka is a motivational speaker who integrates cutting-edge research with reality-based strategies for dealing with the issues that face our youth today including sex, drugs, violence, bullying, suicide and academic achievement as well as mental health and school climate and safety. He addresses the challenges of building trusting relationships: communication, collaboration, culture and caring. Using the WSCC concept (Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child), he stresses the importance of brain-based learning, ACE (adverse childhood experiences), trauma-informed education, resilience, stress management, social emotional learning, behavioral threat assessment, and why kindness matters. The program is filled with ”tips from the trenches” to help you keep students safe and healthy so they can learn more and live better. He offers honesty, humor and hope that everyone can Make a Difference.

Sroka has spoken worldwide with The Power of One message, how one person can Make a Difference. Last year, Steve died while presenting a school in-service. Two SRO’s, a principal, two school psychologists (one being his daughter) and others saved his life and changed his message. He usually delivers life saving information to audiences, and this time the audience saved his life. He now talks about The Power of Many, how it takes a team to make a difference. His presentations change your life professionally and personally.

His most requested program is You have The Power of One to start a fire, but you need the Power of Many to keep the fire burning.


Programs:
Age and community appropriate, culturally sensitive, tailored to your audience.
The Power of One and The Power of Many works on any education level K-college.
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.

Adult/Professional/Community Programs:
Keynotes, workshops, 1-6 hours seminars, tailored to your audience. Suggested titles include:
  • It’s all about Relationships: You have the Power of One to start a fire, but you need the Power of Many to keep the fire burning
  • The New 3 R’s for Education: Relationships, Resilience and Reality
  • Keeping Kids Safe and Healthy in a Toxic Society
  • Is Perception Reality? Brain-based strategies to build relationships to reach, teach and protect diverse learners
  • Getting to the heart of education-listening to the whole at-risk student
  • 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 effectively 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.
Keynoting the D.A.R.E. conference in Texas.
Talking to students at Lakewood High School in Ohio.
Keynoting the NASRO conference in California.
Dr. Sroka with a student after his presentation to the Family and Child Education program at the Blackwater Community School on the Gila River Reservation in Arizona.