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Jeff Wolfsberg is an experienced keynote speaker at major events and conferences, dinners, awards presentations, and substance abuse initiative launches worldwide – small community or school get together’s of 20 people, or international events of 3,000 or more.  He delivers highly customized insight for schools, colleges, and community sessions.

Jeff Wolfsberg is funny, unique, and his presentations are full of insightful stories, backed by research and statistics.

Jeff’s goal is to help schools and colleges enhance their prevention and intervention responses to underage drinking, teen drug use, and mental health.  His integrative prevention model adapts to the unique institutional culture of each client. 

 He blogs, writes articles for major publications, appears as a regular guest expert for FOX TV, and creates social media related to addiction prevention and intervention.

Jeff’s background and experience is in addiction counseling and adult learning.  For over a decade, he has mixed his passion for transpersonal psychology and education to create experiences that assist students, educators, and parents to create transformative and positive change in their lives.

Jeff’s Keynotes and Break Out Workshops Are Ideal For:

• Addictions, Education, and Prevention Conferences
• Community or County Substance Abuse Coalitions Training and Conference
• Youth Leadership Conferences
• Parent Conferences

A brief list of conferences I have spoken at:

• OACAC Overseas Association of College Admission Counselors
• Mental Health in Independent Schools (MHIS)
• EARCOS (East Asia Regional Conference of Overseas Schools)
• NESA (Near East South Asian Conference of Overseas Schools)

Keynote Presentations

The following keynote presentations and training programs are unique because they include the motivation for learning along with the steps and processes to ensure success.  At the end of each program, the participants walk out with a new world view. Within this context, they are better able to use new skills to face their challenges, coach and lead others,  and engage and inspire students.

Brining It All Together:  Turning Theory Into Practice to Create Healthy School Communities

According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug use among our nation’s youth is increasing at an alarming rate. However, 20 years of research have now provided the tools to change the current course of events and to reverse the increases in teenage drug use that began in 1992. We are beyond the point where we have to make uninformed choices about what might prevent or reduce underage drinking and other drug use. Unfortunately, many schools rely on antiquated prevention programs, intuition, and historical approaches to prevention that are ineffective.

During this engaging and practical program your group will discover:

• Add more tools to your prevention, assessment, and early intervention toolkit.
• Discussion of challenges and opportunities associated with implementation in both large and small schools – coed, single sex, boarding, boarding/day.
• Action steps schools and districts can take to move toward more comprehensive and collaborative implementation of school-based drug education and wellness program.
• Encourage your people to look at new challenges as opportunities, rather than viewing change as a threat to be feared.
• A deeper understanding of evidence-based and theory-driven substance abuse prevention and early intervention.

Please Don’t Tell:  Why Students Don’t Ask For Help and What We Can Do About It

A keynote for teachers and administrators to explore the ways we can address alcohol or other drug use in adolescents before he/she is involved in a punitive process. Rarely do schools have the opportunity to see students directly “use” substances. More often that not, schools are dealing with gossip, rumor and vague behavioral signals. This keynote will give specific strategies for building student assistance models using the Core Team and/or Health Services approach.