"The Real Deal on Crime, Drugs, and Easy Money"
A powerful drug & alcohol abuse and violence prevention/intervention program.

Ron, an author, dynamic speaker and successful entrepreneur speaks from the heart of real life experience.  His school programs provide answers and change lives.  He is dedicated to helping others heal the past, change the present and create the future.

He shares his story to demonstrate how he was able to turn his life around.  His honesty is a reality check showing kids where they may be headed unless they choose to turn their lives around.  Offering them hope and possibilities, he teaches them that everything in life is a choice and that tomorrow's quality of life is based on today's decisions.

Ron connects with kids who feel alienated by the system. By relating to their pain, desperation and hopelessness he is able to show them why they are so angry, and why so many of them have given up on school, relationships, and their hopes and dreams. He identifies personal attitudes and issues that contribute to their feelings of isolation and low self-esteem, and provides them with ideas on how they can have control over "things that happen to me". 

Ron challenges kids to believe first in the value of their own lives, and the importance of respecting themselves and others. He gives new hope and direction to those who are on the brink of making destructive, life altering decisions, and shows them how to take back their personal power and right to choose a better life. His energy, honesty, and realism reach even the most cynical.


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*PARENT PROGRAMS AVAILABLE
Programs are based on the Principles of Effectiveness and re-enforce the Forty Assets and State Standards.

For further information on the above standards, assets, and principles contact the Board of Education for your State, Search Institute, and the National Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.
(Search Institute, 700 S. Third Street, Suite 210, Minneapolis, MN 55415, 800-888-7828 http://www.Search-Institute.org

TAPTEAM continually measures results, and provides you with evaluation tools, which will assist us in measuring your program results.

Program Packages:

Connecting with Kids. 
Ron provides a fresh perspective on how kids think and provides insight into the decision making process of the at-risk child. This package includes Interactive workshops, discussion of abuse issues, learning styles, self-defeating learned behaviors (i.e. diversity and racial issues). A favorite! This package has been consistently identified by professionals all over the country as "The best Staff development program we've ever had".

Literacy. 
We take state standards and testing very seriously. Kids should have knowledge and skills with realistic expectations to build upon. As a child, Ron was a typical under achiever. He graduated from high school with a fourth grade reading level and a one point grade average. Hear Ron share how, at age 33, he was able to overcome his literacy problems and attain a college grade point average of 3.4. Ron's book is being used in upper elementary level, through high school classrooms. Our results show that many underachievers are improving reading scores, often by grade levels at a time. The goal of this package is to assist you with bringing the bottom 25% achievement ratings up to a more middle level.

Safe Schools. 
Safety is a huge issue today. Ron addresses multiple issues involved in student behaviors, which contribute to the quality of the school environment. In this package, he provides valuable information on how thoughts create reality, gangs, impact of verbal abuse by peers, parents, or staff, conflict resolution, peer mediation, harassment, teasing and basic respect, and drug and alcohol abuse.


Turn Around Publishing exists to join in partnership with schools, parents, police,
businesses, and communities to turn our kids around.  Therefore, our programs are based on the Principles of Effectiveness to re-enforce the 40 Assets and State Standards.

Ron Glodoski enables the members of a group to clarify team goals, and identify individual and group issues which are blocks to reaching these goals.  he then empowers each member of the group to take ownership of these blocks, which leads to their removal and ultimate achievement of an effective team dynamic.

We are all aware of the harm of physical and sexual abuse, but few people ever talk about the impact of verbal abuse. Sticks and stones and bullets can harm the body. Find out how abusive words destroy your child's spirit. Discuss the correlation between verbal abuse and violent behavior, drug and alcohol dependency and other destructive decisions. 

We are all born innocent. We were taught prejudices, racism, violence, self-defeating attitudes and self-limiting beliefs. Attitudes prevent us from being what we can be. Identify personal attitudes and issues that may be keeping kids stuck in patterns of violence, substance abuse, and destructive decision making.

Understand what is stopping kids from learning and achieving their graduation requirements. Change your way of thinking - your thoughts create your reality. Alternative choices for kids making destructive decisions.

What kind of stress and pressures are kids living with each day? What impact does our choices today have on our future? How hard is it to say no - with friends it is almost impossible? Do our kid's friends support their goals and dreams for their future? Peer Pressure - the 50s verse the 90s.

People learn in different ways - by seeing, hearing, or doing. The way we learn can determine our strengths and weaknesses. Understanding the different styles and their impact on how we perceive and interact with our environment will help improve communication skills. Labeling brings one down. Labels communicate limitations and set expectations. Learn how to appreciate and understand our differences. 

Educators will discover the reality and understand:  1. Why their students turn to drugs and alcohol; 2. What addictive behavior is and how to recognize the warning signs; 3. How dangerous it is to think it can never happen to me; 4.  How glorification of negative behavior and lifestyles in the media contributes to unhealthy choices.

Find out why kids are joining gangs. Recognize some basic gang identifiers. Discover things you can do to put gangs out of business. How can kids get out of gangs?

"I'm always on the lookout for books like this that can make a difference in kids lives. (How To Be a Successful Criminal) not only gives spirit and attitude and philosophy…but also practical…steps to follow to create a life-sustaining career within the law."
          Sister Helen Prejean, csj
          Author of Dead Man Walking

"…This book demonstrates the practicality of the right choice in believable and unforgettable terms. The message is poignant and the delivery is passionate. Who among us can not learn from it?"
          Judge Penelope D. Coffman
          Denver, Colorado

"As a street cop of 15 years, I was pleasantly surprised after reading Ron's book. It's a must-read for anyone who has lost hope of being part of the American dream - this book speaks from the heart of the language of the street. I highly recommend it."
          Officer Michael Johnson
          St. Paul Police Department

(Also, see the Endorsements Section for more on "How To Be A Successful Criminal - The Real Deal on Crime, Drugs, and Easy Money.")

"I work with kids most of society don't want to know exist. They are all felons. Ron shows them another way. He doesn't say they're wrong… he tells them to quit taking life laying down…to take some responsibility for their own lives."
          Daniel Gill, Corrections Officer
          Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center


"This is a book of urgent importance for everyone - kids and adults, criminals and victims, and anyone who cares about the future."
          Mark Chevalier, Lead Counselor
          Minneapolis Youth Diversion Program

"I made it a priority to introduce "How To Be a Successful Criminal…" by reading the first chapter (to my students). You captured the kid's attention immediately…then you did the tough part; you kept their attention...two of our toughest kids argued about who would be allowed to finish the book that night in their cell…It soon became apparent that a promise to finish the book as a daily treat would be the only answer…I watched these kids as the days progressed…they were totally captured in the spell of your story…I thought we might lose our audience after the "guts and glory" part…they became a little squirmy when you started talking about how you changed your life from unhealthy to healthy…but it meant that they were thinking, and that you were hitting the mark!" 
          Sue Kelly-Kohlman, Teacher
          Brown County Jail, Green Bay, Wisconsin


"Your book is the best book. It tells us kids what to do and what to think, so that we don't get into trouble…If your friends make you do something wrong…they're not your true friends. That's what I learned from your book."
          Juvenile Inmate,
          Brown County Jail, Green Bay, Wisconsin

"Thanks for coming in and talking to us…the thing I learned is that everything I do is a choice…I also know how to change my life."
          Josh, Juvenile Inmate, 
          Turning Point, Ft. Collins, Colorado


"Thanks…your speech really motivated me and made me want to change for the better…Thanks for believing in me." 
          Mario, Inmate, Youthful Offenders, Pueblo, Colorado

"Ron's story can easily be our students' stories: from childhood pain, to life on the streets, to drugs and personal losses. As Ron shared his life, students were engaged: their lives and pain were being validated by someone who had been there - and someone who found a way out to a life full of direction and promise." 
          Helen Henly, Director, Menlo Park Alternative School