Testimonials

"This program is wonderful - I can't rave about it too much. Every single time they use it, kids get caught up in it. By working through the program and talking with me, I'm seeing kids solve their problems, and turn themselves around."

Al Lachut, Head of Mental Health Services, El Dorado Public Schools, AK

"This is such a wonderful product."

Anne St. Germaine, former head of Health Services, Seattle School District

"Ripple Effects for Teens is a leap ahead of everything else. It is sophisticated, fast paced, and kid-driven.... This is the best thing I've seen in a long, long time in terms of prevention. It gets to kids in a simple way - and changes the way they behave."

Rochelle St. Marie, Prevention Coordinator, LaFourche Parish School District, Lockport, LA

"I get into less trouble because when I use the program I realize what I can do to change my behavior."

Katherine, Teen User at The Opportunity Place, Central School, Lafourche Parish

"The kids absolutely adore the profiles, they feel it's a chance to see themselves. They use it to springboard to important discussions and self-understanding."

Maggie Avedisian, Mental Health Specialist Children's Studio Charter School, Washington, DC

"Ripple Effects has hit a home run. The implications are astounding. We're talking about a revolution in learning. We're talking about the arrival of the payoff we've been waiting for from educational computer technology - one that helps kids and may save lives. We're talking about a level of cost-efficiency, meaningfulness, and effectiveness that was not previously available to teachers, employers, healthcare practitioners, mental health professionals, or criminal-justice officials."

Author Ari Cowan, Founder/Past Executive Director, Family Health Institute; Nationally recognized leader in health and education; Recipient, Physician's for Social Responsibility's 1998 National Public Health Award

"Ripple Effects for Teens is exciting - it's comprehensive, accessible to non-readers, based on sound theory, and includes outcome evaluations."

Martin Fishbein, PhD, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

"We've looked all around the world and believe the Ripple Effects product is superior to everything in the areas of personal performance and human capacity development."

Major International Management Consultancy

"Relate gives them permission to talk about things they might not have brought up otherwise - topics like family violence, pressure to make out, problems with friends at school."

Jessica Ball Unit Supervisor, Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton & Franklin Counties, Pasco, WA

"...one of the most exciting prevention resources available. There has never been such a comprehensive effort thoroughly based in research, creative and right on. Relate is a benchmark-a break through that will mark a change in the way we do our prevention work."

Cordelia Anderson, nationally recognized prevention leader and consultant

"Amazing. The most useful tool for educators since Word."

Jim Denison, Counselor, Seattle, Washington

"It has real substance. It ought to be in schools."

Ramon Cortines, Former Executive Director, Pew Network for Standards-Based Reform at Stanford University, Former Chancellor, New York City Schools, Former Superintendent, San Jose and San Francisco School Districts

"Entertaining as well as educational. A truly innovative program that can be a valuable component of a coordinated school health program."

Paul R. Sathrum, HIV/CSH Project Coordinator, National Education Association Health Information Network

"an ideal resource... This is computer technology at its best; interactive, extensive, thorough, and it encourages the learner to take the knowledge into the community."

Veronica Primus - Thomas, Director, The International Network for Serious Teens Acting Responsibly, Inc.

"...an exceptional asset for all parents, schools, and communities. .. not only efficacious, but also culturally appropriate."

Rodney Samaan, Program Associate, National Assembly on School-Based Health Care

"I tell our officers, your most important tool is yourself. Your second most important tool can be this program. It has credibility with us because of the research behind it, and credibility with the kids because of the first person videos, and wide range of real kids that are involved in it."

Joe Wilson, Executive Director, National Association of Police Athletic Leagues (PAL)

"It's an extremely effective tool...a good supplement to a comprehensive health education program."

Brenda Greene, School Health Programs Manager, National School Boards Association

"It is doing something to address the needs of people with disabilities."

Jeri Houchens, Director of Programs, Back to Life - A program committed to providing equal opportunities to people of all abilities.

"I'm very impressed with [ the whole project, especially] the dedication you have to including varied, honest, multicultural images."

Melina O'Grady, Bay Area Teen Voices

"This is the first program we have observed that is totally innovative in its use of technology.... [It] provides ... local control over content, which is a critical factor for our school district....Your program has extremely wide applicability."

David Dawes, Manager, Instructional Technology, San Jose Unified School District

"... an effective teaching tool. The quality of the program stands far above anything I have previewed to date."

Karen Hart, Former Coordinator of Health Education for Healthy Kids, Healthy San Francisco

"... one of the first programs I have seen that addresses multiple intelligences."

Terry Allan, Technology Resource Coordinator, Vancouver Public School District

"The life challenges section of Relate is extremely comprehensive in scope, appealing to a wide range of students through its multi-modal option, and sensitive to adolescents' needs for both guidance and privacy."

Laura Arnold, M.A., Mental Health Specialist & Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Education Programs Coordinator, Santa Clara Unified School District

"Relate is getting good reviews from those involved in violence prevention efforts."

Oakland Tribune

"...surely any topic needed by health educators of twelve to sixteen year olds can be found in your program...Certainly students will be engaged, and teachers will be able to use the materials in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes....We find your program exciting."

Dr. Sharon J. Wieland, PhD, Curriculum Coordinator, Lodi Unified School District

"It teaches you to understand people more, get in their shoes and understand where they're coming from. A lot of kids lash out when they don't understand."

Mary Watson, 15, Relate user

"The presentation reads very current, and our members like the hip style of the animation and the youth narrators. Our youth population also appreciates the multi-ethnic look. Because adolescents are so easily bored or distracted, the variety of Ripple Effects for Teens seems key in keeping them hooked."

Kim Manske, Director of Operations Boys & Girls Club of Benton and Franklin Counties

"... gives young women a remarkable level of interactivity where technology becomes a stimulating medium for self-assessment and growth."

GirlSource, creating economic empowerment opportunities for young women

"Ripple Effects for Teens assists with our efforts to help empower students to become positive and productive members of society."

Jim Hernandez, Violence Prevention Specialist, Concord Police Department

"Our counselor is using it to teach social skills with small groups of students; its really effective. It's enjoyable for the kids - very colorful, and visual, and the kids seem to be learning from it."

Jaqueline Harris, Principal, Frank Wiley Middle School, Cleveland, OH

"This really fills a void. We wanted to make the computer the center piece of our program. We can get all the math and reading programs we want, but what about something that teaches life coping skills? We didn't have anything that filled that gap - so Relate fits right in. They like it, and it's easy to get them excited about it. Especially the things that help them explore themselves - we didn't have anything that touched that."

Alonzo Thompson, Coordinator Seed Program/After School Programs City of Lakeland, Florida

"An original product that provides an information rich, constructivist environment for adolescents to explore self-understanding in the context of a broad range of problems that confront them in today's society."

Robin Stern PhD, Associate Director, Project for Social and Emotional Learning, Teachers College, Columbia University

Frank Moretti PhD, Director, Columbia Center for New Media, Teaching and Learning, Columbia University