It’s important for all of us to give thanks as we enter the holiday season. We have a lot to be thankful for here at TEEN TRUTH, as we’ve continued to extend our reach to students across North America. We owe this success to your support. So in an effort to...
We’ve always pushed to give students a voice, and we’re constantly seeking out new outlets for our award-winning film series. This fall we were able to work with Amazon.com to release all four TEEN TRUTH films on Amazon Digital Video. Audiences all over the world can...
Visiting over 5,000 campuses has given TEEN TRUTH a unique insight into what it takes to build school culture. Even after just a minute or two of stepping into a school, we can generally feel the culture. We know within moments how engaged the students will be during...
This July we worked with Frisco ISD in what has turned into a landmark event for the RISING UP: Coaching Program. RISING UP, designed specifically to help school counselors extend guidance efforts across campus, will be implemented in 18 schools across the district...
This summer I was honored to serve as an adjunct instructor for Texas State University. Working directly through the Texas School Safety Center School-Based Law Enforcement Summits, we were able to bring TEEN TRUTH’s message to over 400 officers across Texas. As I...
When I started RISING UP in 2012, I wanted to create a program that would help students work through adversity. Having worked with TEEN TRUTH in the anti-bully / school culture development field for the last 10 years I felt that this was a need for both students and...
From big cities like New York and Los Angeles to smaller towns like Abilene, TX and Bend, OR, school budgets are often managed to source every possible benefit for every single penny. We’ve come to realize this in our business as well. I can recall eating a bag...
Registration is now open for TEEN TRUTH’s RISING UP: Coaching Program – Train the Trainer event. Become a certified trainer and build a peer-to-peer program that helps extend guidance efforts across your campus. This full day workshop will teach attendees the...
On April 14, 2016, TEEN TRUTH partnered with the Harris County Department of Education Center for Safe and Secure Schools in Houston, TX to offer the first ever TEEN TRUTH: Difference Maker Summit for adults. The 3-hour workshop featured student-driven content geared...
Recently TEEN TRUTH’s CEO, JC Pohl, went live on Facebook to discuss the RISING UP: Coaching Program – Trainer Certification Course coming up on June 7th in Austin, TX. To see a replay of the webinar please click the video below....
We are honored to announce that TEEN TRUTH’s RISING UP: Coaching Program will be extending its first publicly available trainer certification event. We are now offering a select group of educators the opportunity to become certified RISING UP Trainers for their...
On April 14, 2016 TEEN TRUTH’s JC Pohl will be hosting a TT: DIFFERENCE MAKER SUMMIT at Harris County Department of Education Center for Safe and Secure Schools. The event will feature student created content from TEEN TRUTH, as well as thought provoking activities...
On April 29, 2016 TEEN TRUTH and Special Olympics Texas will partner together in Abilene, TX to offer another UNIFIED DIFFERENCE MAKER SUMMIT. The summit is designed to bring special education and general education students together into one, big leadership event....
From JC Pohl… In both the news and on social media we often hear very defeating language around the issue of bullying and other pressures students face. You’ve heard them before: “He got bullied, so he brought a gun to school.” “She got bullied by the...
Recently TEEN TRUTH’s Sharon Aguilar was able to train 26 student coaches in the RISING UP: Coaching Program Peer-to-Peer Curriculum. Working with administrators from both GEAR UP and the district’s 21st Century ACE Program Aguilar had this to say about her...
This month TEEN TRUTH’s RISING UP: Coaching Program will extend our partnership with the GEAR UP program in ESC 12 (Waco, TX area). Working with select student leaders at Groesbeck High School, we will be training 26 student coaches to work with after-school students...
From the CEO… I am honored to announce that on March 5th Lifetouch and TEEN TRUTH will team up to offer a powerful keynote experience at the South Carolina AMLE Conference. The keynote program focuses on the importance of empowering student voice and building...
Having launched 10 years ago, TEEN TRUTH is honored to announce new leadership as it heads into the next 10 years. TEEN TRUTH co-founder and Executive Producer, JC Pohl, has been named the company’s new President & CEO. Pohl is, “…honored to become the new...
From the desk of JC Pohl… This January TEEN TRUTH’s RISING UP: Coaching Program kicked off our 2016 campaign with a life-changing trip to Saipan, Rota, and Tinian, located halfway around the world in the Mariana Islands. The CNMI Public School System hosted a...
Recently the TEEN TRUTH: Assembly Experience was evaluated with an independent student survey that was conducted at Marshall Middle School in San Diego, CA on 10.29.15. The influential anti-bullying assembly presented by TEEN TRUTH’s co-founder, JC Pohl, was attended...
10.22.16 marked the day when Austin AMFT took a new step forward with our first ever Spotlight Series Event. Led by TEEN TRUTH’s JC Pohl and My Healing Place’s Brittany Neece the event bought together a paid audience of therapists, counselors, social workers and...
Serving as a founder at TEEN TRUTH and RISING UP has allowed me to work in many different facets of teen life and school culture development. Through this work I have quickly learned that PARENTS & FAMILY COMMUNICATION can be a key factor in any adolescent’s...
As many of you know, we have been on the road visiting schools and communities across the country for the better part of the last 10 years. And while every trip is very special to us, there was one trip this month that was by far one of the best experiences of...
For over 10 years TEEN TRUTH has been the premiere destination for school culture related content. We have produced award-winning student shot films, we have created assemblies and leadership programs that have inspired millions to be the difference, and we are...
