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Biography Bret
Stephenson M.A., is the author of From
Boys to Men: Spiritual Rites of Passage in an Indulgent Age.
He has been a counselor of at-risk and high-risk adolescents for more
than ninenteen years. Bret has worked in residential treatment, clinical
counseling agencies, group homes, private counseling, foster parent training,
Independent Living Program, and managed mentoring and tutoring programs.
He has been a presenter and speaker at numerous national and international
conferences and workshops, including the International Transpersonal Association's
Youth Conferences in America and Ireland, the United Nations World Peace
Festival, and the World Childrens Summit. Bret was recently Director of Special Projects for Foster/Kinship Care Education and the Independent Living Program at Lake Tahoe Community College. He has been pioneering the use of Internet based systems intended to deliver distance education classes for rural providers and group home staff, and previously launched a teen web project through the Independent Living Program in which the web content and construction of the web page was completed by ILP teens only. He designed and taught on-line classes on Understanding Adolescence, Reactive Attachment Disorder, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Bret is currently also working with the California Conservation Corps, providing anger management training and case management services. He is currently a case manager for Rite of Passage, Inc. in Nevada where he is the founder and director of the Str8 Up student-business project. In addition, he is on the Global Passageways Intergenerational Advisory Council project based in Washington DC. In June 2004, Bret once again headed the teen module of the International Transpersonal Association's Youth Conference in Palm Springs. In July 2005 he headed the teen component for the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ first Youth Conference in Washington DC. Bret is the founder and Executive Director of Labyrinth Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to adolescent services and programs. Bret and Labyrinth Center are currently creating youth employment and youth entrepreneurial models. Bret is providing services for the following organizations:
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For more information, contact Bret. All material Copyright by Bret Stephenson 1997-2008 Last Updated March 29, 2008
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