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Most Requested Programs

What Every Parent in America Needs to Ask

Who is going to win the battle for the loyalty of your children?
Parental authority is being undermined and parents are in a daily battle for the heart, mind, and loyalty of their children. Richard has been transforming strained parent-child relationships for over two decades with his Parents on a Mission leadership curriculum. In this Keynote talk Richard shares from his book practical methods on how parents can defeat their competition and win the battle for loyalty.

The “Home Field Advantage”

This talk is specifically designed for parents of young children who are concerned about their children being negatively influenced. Children are most at-risk for making negative choices between 12-15 years old. Richard shares how parents gain the advantage for child loyalty using strategies during the first twelve years of a child’s life to prevent children from choosing negative lifestyles.
 

Parents Peak Performance

We grow old automatically. But we do not “grow up” automatically. Wisdom and maturity do come with age. In this insightful session Richard shares why, parent reaction is inferior to parent response to child misbehavior. Parent Peak Performance requires growth in emotional maturity. Richard shares four simple steps on how to grow in emotional maturity.
 

“High touch” vs. “High-tech”

Social Media Influencers are winning influence with youth hearts and minds that is driving them away from their parents’ family values. In this talk Richard teaches parents how to overcome hidden Influencer strategies and how to connect, stay relevant, and regain respect for your parental authority.

The Art of Stepparenting:
How to Blend Families Without Tearing Them Apart

In America today single parenting, parents of divorce, second and third marriages, step parenting, and blended family realities are the real, more pressing issues and challenges for families in need of support. The family structure experience and how it can affect children towards delinquent behavior has been studied for well over one hundred years. These studies also show that children brought up in single parent, and stepfamilies are more prone to delinquent behavior than children raised by their biological parents. However, these statistics can be overcome. Richard shares his personal story of being raised by a single mother in the barrio of North East Los Angeles, and his experience of being a stepparent for most of his adult life...overcoming the challenges of successfully blending families.

It does NOT take a village to raise a child… it just takes good parenting

Contrary to popular opinion, it does NOT take a village to raise a child. Although well intended, this message to parents was for a different time in a different culture. Unfortunately, the truth is we really don’t know who we can trust in ‘the village’ anymore from the Whitehouse, the School House, and the Church House. Richard encourages parents that they are the most important people in the community and in the life of their children. He shares that the community does not build the family, but rather, it is the family that builds the community. Parents learn how community health and safety is a result of parents taking responsibility for raising their children to be respectful, contributing citizens of society.
 

From The Margins to The Mainstream

In this specially designed message for minority youth, Richard shares his story of growing up in Northeast Los Angeles and how he overcame the obstacles of barrio youth gangs, drugs and violence, devoted his career to serving high-risk youth & families, and became an author, speaker, and recognized national and international leadership expert. For his decades of community service and his work in the field of human rights, he has received numerous accolades and awards including recognition by the White House Administration, The United States Congress, The California State Assembly, the Santa Barbara Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and has been inducted into the Morehouse College’s Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapels Board.