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  • TEENS 101: DON’T DISS MY ABILITIES – MICHELLE’S STORY

    From: TEENS 101 – Video Series

    -For grades 8-12
    Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
    -Free online video streaming included!

    -Released in 2017

    As a child and teenager, Michelle endured a series of events that was nothing short of soul-crushing. She faced sexual abuse as a child and kept it a secret over the years. At the age of sixteen, she acquired a brain disease that rendered her blind. Her so-called friends bullied her at school. She fell into a deep depression and turned to drugs, alcohol, and self-harm to number her pain, but nothing seemed to help. She felt her only option was suicide. Thankfully a miraculous turn of events saved her life and now this remarkable young woman faces all of her adversity with such positive energy that it’s become infectious and humbling to all that know and love her.

    $79.95
  • TEENS 101: FIRST NATIONS – LINDSAY’S STORY

    From: TEENS 101 – Video Series

    -For grades 8-12
    Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
    -Free online video streaming included!

    -Released in 2017

    Lindsay (Eekwol) grew up in the First Nations community. She experienced an unforgiving world of drugs, alcohol and violence within her family. As a child, she lived in fear while her parents and their friends had endless parties that often broke out in fights. As she grew up in this environment, she soon developed into an abuser of drugs and alcohol herself. Falling victim to blackouts and on one occasion she almost died one night lying unconscious on the highway. This seminal moment caused her devoted sister to give up on her – unless she changed her ways. For the first time in her life, she listened, and the path of being clean and sober led to becoming a successful solo female aboriginal hip hop artist.

    $79.95
  • TEENS 101: I’M NOT ADDICTED – WILL’S STORY

    From: TEENS 101 – Video Series

    -For grades 8-12
    Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
    -Free online video streaming included!

    -Released in 2017

    You can become addicted to just about anything. It becomes a serious problem when it takes you away from the things you normally do. Some people have a predisposition to addiction and Will’s story shows that anyone call fall dangerously into addiction. It started with a video games addiction which was the beginning of the slippery slope that almost cost him his life. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player. He could never imagine that at the age of 17 he would be living on the streets addicted to crack cocaine and near death. His remarkable story brings so much hope to those that struggle with addiction and now he dedicates his life to helping youth.

    $79.95