We Need Your Passion
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...
End of School Sale
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 Open
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...
Do You Hear that Whisper?
Imagine you’re standing in a school auditorium, and a young student tells you that they’re cutting to relieve the pain in their life, and that they are being abused by their step mom. Imagine that student tells you they’re thinking about suicide. Now…imagine...
HDCE Builds School Culture
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...
RISING UP on Facebook
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.
Free Gifts!
Early registration is now open for TEEN TRUTH’s RISING UP: Coaching Program - Train the Trainer Course. Our CEO, JC Pohl, will be hosting this event, which will guide you through all the skills needed to train your student coaching staff. You’ll also learn how to...
Save the Date!
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...
HCDE School Safety Event
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...
The Power of Vulnerability
From JC Pohl... I was recently asked by Lifetouch to keynote the South Carolina AMLE Conference and I had an amazing time working with nearly 1,000 inspirational educators from across the state. After the session I had an insightful conversation with a...
A UNIFIED Abilene
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....
#changethelanguage
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 mean...
Groesbeck Coaching Staff
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...
RISING UP with GEAR UP
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...
Lifetouch Empowers 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 school...
The Next 10 Years!
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...
RISING UP Around the World
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 “train...
TEEN TRUTH Research Validation
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...
Austin AMFT & TEEN TRUTH
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...
New Parenting Film from TEEN TRUTH
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...