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Barry Smith,  President and Chief Thinker

Barry Smith has worked with young people that have faced challenges for over 15 years.  President of CAGE Training & Resources Inc., Barry is the founder of the YOUth Learning Program™.  The YOUth Learning Program™dedicated to enhancing the potential in children by encouraging an understanding and a love for education.   Barry provides strength-based tutoring and training designed to cultivate the potential of all.  He is a published author and considered an expert on using a strength-based approach to dealing with the problem of bullying and aggression in children.   Click here to download a copy of Become An Expert In You.

 

Mary-Anne Smith, Program Director

Mary-Anne Smith, has been working with young people and their families for over 20 years as a child & youth care worker and advocate.  She is a dedicated yoga practitioner and has devoted her professional career to adapting mindfulness techniques for work with children.  Mary-Anne believes that training in mindfulness has the potential to enhance children's attention and focus, and improve memory. self-acceptance, self-management skills , and self-understanding. 


Directors and Advisors

 

Charlie Appelstein.

Charlie, whose motto is "There's no such thing as a bad kid", has worked in child welfare for over 25 years. As president of Appelstein Training Resources, LLC, he provides original, strength-based training, consultation, and youth care literature to individuals and groups seeking to better understand and respond to troubled children and youth. Charlie works primarily with residential and foster care programs; children's and adolescent psychiatric facilities; public, private, and special education schools; parent groups; and detention centers.

 Charlie's experience

 "Charlie is the best youth care trainer in America."

Robert Lieberman

Former President, American Association of Children's Residential Centers

Charlie's first two books, The Gus Chronicles: Reflections from an Abused Kid and No Such Thing As a Bad Kid: Understanding and Responding to the Challenging Behavior of Troubled Children and Youth, are used as training resources in hundreds of child welfare programs, schools, and colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Gus Chronicles won the Albert Trieschman Literature Award - Open Category in 1991. His latest book, The Gus Chronicles II, was published in the summer of 2002.

Credentials & Experience

  • Twenty-Seven Years of Experience Working in Child Welfare
  • Six Years as Program Director and Treatment Coordinator for the Nashua Children's Home, a Residential Treatment Setting in Southern, New Hampshire
  • Fifteen Years of Experience as a Workshop Presenter
  • First Place Award Recipient in the Albert Trieschman Literature Competition Open Category, 1991
  • Received Master of Social Work Degree in 1987 from Simmons College of Social Work
  • Consult and Provide Training to Numerous School Systems throughout New England, Primarily in Massachusetts
  • Consult and Provide Ongoing Training to Residential Programs throughout the Country
  • Created the Successful Train the Trainer Seminar for Senior Residential Care Professionals, and Authored a 100-Plus Page Training Manual
  • Frequent Presenter at Regional and National Child Care Conferences
  • Provided the Keynote Address at the 2004 CWLA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Listed below is a sampling of the Associations for whom Charlie has Conducted Workshops and/or Provided a Keynote Address:

  • American Association of Children's Residential Centers
  • Massachusetts Association of Ch766 Approved Private Schools
  • Minnesota Council of Child Caring Agencies
  • Rhode Island Council of Resource Providers to Children, Youth, and Families
  • Massachusetts School Counselors Association
  • Missouri Juvenile Justice Association
  • Coalition for Family and Children's Services in Iowa

 

Charlie lives in Salem, New Hampshire, with his wife, Cheryl, and their daughter, Julie. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, biking, pizza, and his beloved three-time Super Bowl champions, the New England Patriots.


Walter Smith.

Walter is the originator of the theory and practice of affective non-competitive education as a way to unify holistic educational practices. Affective Education is based on the idea that we can design education systems where everyone will be successful if we begin with that policy. It is in contrast with competitive education where there has to be winners and losers because we start out with that alternative policy. Competitive education is devastating for those who end up on the wrong side of the proverbial bell curve. It destroys intitiative. This is especially true for children and youth who have not reached the maturity to fully comprehend the nature of competition.

Affective Education is motivated by natural interest in learning new things and not by competition. It does incorporate competition as an aspect of human nature, but is not a factor in educational assessment. An affective education classroom would be a children's / youth workplace where academics are integrated into an experiential curriculum.

 Walter's experience

Teaching Experience (12 years experience teaching and 50+ learning guide development projects)

Education and Training Program Design (50+ programs)

Education and Training Program Review Reorganization and Harmonization (5 major projects)

Workplace Learning (10 major projects)

Corporate Planning (3 projects)

Lifestyle Change & Personal Learning (Continuous, especially in the area of personal health and fitness).

Standing Committees and Review Committees (50+)

 

 

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