Hi Angie, A Personal Video Message For You

Thank you for watching my video message, Angie.

This project initiative (Set Them Free) was created to raise money for these programs through our project through our partner and Management Consultant, Scott Gallagher. Scott delivers training programs to First Nation departments, organizations and businesses. The funding from these programs go toward sponsoring addiction programs for First Nation youth.

Below are sample clips of our 6 program curriculum programs for youth suffering from all kinds of unwanted, unproductive, and destructive habits. I've also included a very personal keynote message I delivered about my experience of being bullied growing up - I'm sure a lot of kids can relate to my experience!

Please watch the videos below, and I would LOVE to get your feedback.

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Help Even The Hardest To Reach Youth Break Free of
Unwanted, Unproductive, and Destructive Habits of ALL Kinds!

Our Curriculum of Programs
Choice Empowered Youth's 6 Program Curriculum is a customized series of school programs developed over 8 years ago by organization founder, Scott Gallagher. These programs have been proven to effectively help participants reduce or eliminate unproductive and often damaging habits.
1. Power of Choice Keynote
First, our keynote speakers share their personal stories on how their various addictions came to be. They relate their lives to the kids' lives, in order to help them realize that they are not alone in their struggle. It creates the feeling that their challenges are not unique to them, and that they do not need to suffer in silence. We draw the parallel that everyone has the power of choice and that we are not powerless in the face of addiction.
2. Habit Mastery Tools and Tips Q & A
After showing students the benefits of self evaluating your thoughts in the keynote, students and adults can self-select to participate in our open forum Q & A session about building positive habits.

Students and participants can really begin to understand how to build better habits and the importance of integrity.
3. Team Leadership and Habit Mastery Workshop
Students who attend the workshop get trained and developed in 'honouring our word' over following our reasons, excuses, and feelings.

Reducing the focus on feelings and keeping the promises and words that we give increases your ability to trust yourself to make better choices to attain your goals, whether they be reducing/stopping unwanted habits or building healthy new ones.
4. The 4 Week Habit Mastery Program
The keynote, Q&A and Team Leadership workshop develop students' knowledge of themselves which instills the skill of being mindful of who they are. Being present allows students to be better leaders of their own lives.

Our programs lead into a 4 week self-sustaining program where participants practice daily healthy and success habits. The 4 week program allows students to be mindful of who they are and thus take leadership of their lives.

This includes having kids run meetings, practice leadership, and hold their group members accountable for the promises they intended to fulfill (without making each other wrong, feel bad, or guilty if promises were not fulfilled).
5. Train the Trainer Program
Adult participants of the program get to learn effective and actionable tools in maintaining the self-sustaining 4 Week Team Leadership Program. These tools and tips can even be incorporated daily in running classrooms, raising families, or working with extra curricular teams.

The adult participants will also have one coaching call with a highly trained facilitator to support the success of the participants in the programs.
6. Power of Choice Community Keynote
To support the transformation within the students and the school, the parents and community are invited to the parent teacher keynote. Including the parents of the students has proven to help make a more profound change in their lives. The kids will have an environment at home that fosters the same positive and empowering lessons they learn in the Choice Empowered Youth 6 Program Curriculum.
If you are interested in having a program come into your community and want to find ways of having the program funded...
Contact me, Michael Mekhail at 647-987-0075 or send mean email at [email protected]
"The facilitator (Scott Gallagher) really held those young people’s attention all day - they got the message loud and clear. And I’m so glad he emphasized that there is nothing wrong with us – that it’s our interpretation of life that paints how we see our life and our future.

Scott made us realize the fallacy of our story of being worthless, unwanted, stupid, dumb, weak, spoiled, unworthy, or a loser. He gave us the power to whitewash the tainted picture away.

The most powerful part of the program was about taking small, manageable steps that mean we can be successful. Scott gave these young people the chance and the ability to create a future that is vibrant and clear, free from guilt and full of hope.

I’ve since been promoted to another school and, with luck, I will be able to bring Scott in for my new students in the coming year!"

- Opal Charters, District Principal First Nation Education, Merritt, British Columbia
"Scott's programs are highly customizable and that has great promise in guiding and helping First Nations students. Each student has individual needs and capabilities and this program works not only with the student, but for them, ensuring step-by-step success and step-by-step support. Students need to be able to work at a pace that they can manage, at the same time feel a sense of confidence and accomplishment; the Power of Choice allows students to reach their potential.

The program has had a great effect on the students by making them accountable for themselves and their own success.

My classroom in particular, students' performance greatly improved and this was shown in their homework assignments, and on their term report cards.

Since finishing the program, students have retained the excitement to learn and are consistently performing well beyond their previous baselines. The program taught students how to 'keep their promises' and deal with unwanted habits by developing healthy habits."

From Preet Dhaliwal, Teacher Nipisihkopakh Secondary School, Hobbema, Alberta
"You could have heard a pin drop when Scott talked about his personal experiences. But it wasn't just about telling his story. He gave students real ideas on how to prevent falling into addiction. Things to look for and how to help others. How to identify addictive things. And it wasn't just about one particular drug or addiction. He also talked about bullying, low self-esteem, things that trigger some of these addictions what [kids] can do to try and improve their lives, and to get better. We TOTALLY got our money's worth."

- Eric Dallin, Vice Principal, Humberside Collegiate, Toronto, Ontario
"The kids seem to be doing very well! They are coming to talk to me individually... Not only are they keeping up with their water and physical activity, they are also cutting down on their addictions quite substantially!!! I see it working!! Which I am grateful to you for!!!"

- Ashley Rachul, 1st Year Teacher, Coronach School, Saskatchewan
"The real highlight of the program for me was the sense of community that developed. Students who are less comfortable socially began working with other students they wouldn't normally encounter. I think some of them experienced a real sense of community for the very first time. That level of personal growth will benefit them into the next school year and for years to come."

- Doris Wyatt, Teacher, Broadview High School, Saskatchewan
"This workshop was absolutely phenomenal! After speaking to many of the kids that attended your workshop, the common feedback was that they could not believe there were so many other kids that were in the same boat as them. They now know that they are not alone. For these particular kids, to be part of a group when you are gone, is pretty special for them. It's nice to have presentations but it is even nicer to have presentations like yours that stick with our school."

- Katherine Adams, Student Success Teacher, Glengarry District High School, Alexandria, Ontario
"The program is clear, easy to deliver and sets students up for small successes along the journey."

- Heather Wegren, School Counselor, Warman High School, Warman, Saskatchewan
"I feel so much better about myself and I have managed to make friends”

- Student from Northumberland Regional High School, Westville, Nova Scotia
"Inclusivity, generosity, acceptance and non-judgment characterize Scott Gallagher's approach...One does not have to agree with everything he states or advocates—indeed, he makes no demand that we do!—to recognize the value of his method, which is to empower (people), no matter what age, with the choice and possibility of transforming negative compulsions into positive commitments.”

- Dr. Gabor Mate a renowned speaker, and bestselling author who is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development
"Scott Gallagher's Healthy Habits Program rises above simply telling kids to 'stop' whatever bad habits they have - or that they have a disease they'll suffer from for the rest of their lives. Instead, Scott focuses on hope, giving students the confidence, ability, and structure they need to deal with the challenges they face.

Scott's school assemblies inspire youth with his own story of overcoming addiction through personal responsibility, integrity, and service to others. For students who have a self-admitted bad habit or addiction, Scott offers a workshop that succeeds by empowering young people to create a healthy habits community using an accountability/buddy system and structure that sustains itself after he leaves.

Ultimately, Scott is a catalyst in enabling kids to help themselves, as well as giving adults around them the tools they need to support kids to change."

- Dr. Stanton Peele, world-renowned addictions expert and author of nine books in the field, including Love and Addiction, the first book to make clear the interconnectedness of all forms of addiction, and his latest Addiction-Proof your Child
"In a field where many are rehashing old ideas with little innovation, Scott Gallagher is encouraging us, with an unusual passion, to grow in our understanding and awareness of what motivates us to engage in unwanted behaviors or habits. He does so in a manner that empowers people and guides them to changing behaviors they really never believed they could."   
    
- Dr. Lee Jampolsky, a recognized leader in psychology and human potential and bestselling author including his book Healing The Addictive Personality
"Scott is one of the most passionate people I have ever met. But passion alone is not enough. 

In [his book, Habit Mastery and The Power of Choice] he combines his deep knowledge, personal experience and commitment to ending unproductive habits of every kind. 

Scott powerfully bridges the gap between unwanted habits and addictions." 

- Jamie Broughton,author of The Emerging Leader: Identify, Ignite and Retain Your Company's Next Generation of Leaders
“Scott is revolutionizing how addictions and people with addictions are perceived and dealt with. Scott is courageous and willing to speak his mind on these issues. He is committed to a new future in this area, so that people are free, experience love and peace for themselves personally, and are then able to be fully active, engaged and contributing individuals, not stopped by unwanted habits. With Scott's support, people can know themselves and be known by others not by their destructive tendencies, but rather by their higher, truer selves.”

- Tallie Rabin, M.Ed., Founder of Peace by PEACE
If you are interested in having a program come into your community and want to find ways of having the program funded...
Contact me, Michael Mekhail at 647-987-0075 or send mean email at miigwetch@setthem