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I worked with Frank Picone in New Jersey at the Children's Home. I found his philosophy sensible and insightful, and his approach practical and effective.

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Welcome to Positive Culture Change

My Name is Frank Picone and I am the founder and Director of Positive Culture Change.

Over the past 20 years I have consulted, trained and coached thousands of staff and leaders in schools, residential treatment programs, and juvenile justice facilities throughout the country and shared what I have discovered really works to positively transform the behaviors and lives of at-risk youth.

My approach is simple. Rather than putting all of our energy into controlling the behaviors of acting out youth we need to control the interpersonal and programmatic environments or cultures our youth experience in our schools and programs.

If you're tired of just surviving the day and reacting to one crisis after another and want to create a more positive culture for your youth and your staff Positive Culture Change is ready to help.

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Positive Culture Change ... Growing Greatness In Youth

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My Name is Frank Picone and I am the founder and Director of Positive Culture Change. Over the past 20 years I have consulted, trained and coached thousands of staff and leaders in schools, residential treatment programs, and juvenile justice facilities throughout the country and shared what I have discovered really works to positively transform the behaviors and lives of at-risk youth.

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Organizations that teach behavioral intervention strategies

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Organizations that teach behavioral intervention strategies

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The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. I found this book to be quite unique among ADD literature, in that Mate emphasizes a compassionate, solutions-based approach that acknowledges societal and environmental factors as a determinant of ADD/ADHD.

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Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder - published in the U.S. as Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates And What You Can Do About It - is written from the inside by a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder. It offers a completely new perspective on ADD and a new approach to helping children and adults living with the problems Attention Deficit Disorder presents.

Scattered Minds

(U.S. Title: Scattered):

Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment, a developmental delay

Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy-and why

Shows how "tuning out" and distractibility are the psychological products of life experience, from in utero onwards

Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviors

Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood

Presents a program of how to promote this development in children and adults alike

Purchase The Book Online

Read from Scattered Minds (U.S.: Scattered)

The following chapters are available to read online:

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ADHD Book: Dr. Gabor Maté: Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit

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Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder - published in the U.S. as Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates And What You Can Do About It - is written from the inside by a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder.

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"This book written by Dr. Gordon Neufeld is about the pivotal importance of children’s relationships to those responsible for them and the devastating impact in today’s society of competing attachments with peers."

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I worked with kids in New Jersey whose dorm and clinical staff implemented the Sanctuary model. In my opinion it would have been that much more effective had school staff also been trained in its tenets and implementation.

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I used Life Space Crisis Intervention at Wediko, to great affect.

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CPI is widely used in New Hampshire as a behavioral intervention program.