Let’s have a great 2008!
We resolve to help more people make healthy life choices in 2008.
How about you?

Look for the fabulous new Realityworks catalog in your (snail) mailbox soon. Check out the new ySTART™ Addiction Education Program using the PreventPak™ Addiction Simulator to help with your tobacco education and prevention efforts. We are also offering new, expanded curricula for our Drug-Affected Demonstrator and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Manikin, more options for Facilitator Training, new RealCare® Baby packages, and additional products to round out your life skills or health education programs.

Please take a moment to fill out the Realityworks Facilitator Training survey. We’re here to help you so let us know what we can do!

All our best to you in your important work around the globe,

Your friends at Realityworks

Would you like a side of Training with that?
Facilitator Training gets programs off to a four-square start

Many program leaders are opting for a group training session to get their RealCare® or ySTART™ programs on the fast track. Authorized trainers come right to your site with all the materials for hands-on “train the trainer” sessions. They can help you master product technology and best practices for maximum results.

”This training surpassed my expectations. I learned so much about the Babies and how to incorporate them into the classroom.”

Johnetta Lofton
Centennial Campus Middle School
Raleigh, North Carolina

“I found all parts of the training beneficial. The presenter was full of energy and explained everything about Realityworks to the fullest!"

Antonio Harrison
Adrian Training School
Michigan Department of Human Services
Adrian, Michigan

If you invested in a Realityworks program for high-impact learning, ensure that it will be used to its potential by giving your group leaders a head start. Our dynamic training pros love to share their expertise and can help you customize your program for your particular needs. One- and two-day trainings are available to meet specific needs of your group. For more information about Facilitator Training, contact your Product Consultant at 800.830.1416 today.

Early praise for the ySTART™ Program and the PreventPak™ Addiction Simulator

“By using the PreventPak, students realize that they are not in total control; the addiction starts to take control. The realism of the Pak is important. Students that participated in this program had strong negative reactions from people in the community when they had the Pak for the weekend.”

Stacy Bolder, BS, MA
Health and Physical Education Teacher at Tomahawk Middle School. Tomahawk, Wisconsin—site of the first pilot ySTART Program.

Effectiveness studies on this new program are now underway in 11 locations nationwide. Read more about ySTART™ including a new curriculum that meets the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines for health programs to prevent tobacco use and addiction, integrated with the PreventPak™ interactive addiction simulator. Behavioral conditioning, real-life refusal skills and dynamic activities organized into an easy-to-administer program—life skills for lifelong results!

Share Your Story Winner for 2007

Sally Walczyk from Reflections for Youth, Berthoud, Colorado, wins a RealCare® Baby II-plus package, including one infant simulator, complete Program Manual with curriculum, and Control Center software for programming and reporting.

Sally told us about the great experience gained by teenage residents of this residential treatment facility using borrowed infant simulators. Because of the potential to reach more at-risk youth with a hands-on program like RealCare®, Reflections for Youth was working on getting funds to buy their own Babies when Sally wrote to us. We hope this prize gets them off to a good start.

Congratulations, Sally, and best wishes to you and your fellow counselors in Colorado. Thanks to all who shared their stories with the Star in 2007. Didn’t see yours? We ran out of room! Here’s a link to a few more for your reading enjoyment.

Enter and Win—New Contest for 2008

We print your story and you get a chance to win great prizes! Tell us about how you use any of our Realityworks programs or products, and your story could help other program leaders gain valuable tips and insight. It could also get you valuable Realityworks products to add to your program. Besides, the more you contribute to this newsletter, the less of our "blah blah blah" you have to read. Everybody wins!

Include your name and contact information, and a photo if possible—of either you or your program in use—and email your story to newsletter@realityworks.com. Winners are chosen by random drawing at the end of the year.

1. This contest is open to all organizations (not individuals) who are involved in educating people in life skills and health programs that could benefit from Realityworks products. The author of the story must be 18 years or older.
   
2. One story per organization may be submitted for entry into the contest. An organization may submit additional stories but they will not be entered into the contest. The first story received by Realityworks, Inc. from an organization will be deemed the entry for the contest.
3. All entries must be received via e-mail no later than midnight on December 31, 2008 for entry into the contest. Entries must be submitted to newsletter@realityworks.com.
4. All entries must include the name of the author of the story, the name of the organization submitting the entry, the organization’s mailing address and telephone number and the following acknowledgement that the author wrote the story on behalf of the organization and that any prize won from submission of the story will belong to the organization and not the author of the story. Failure to include this information with the story will disqualify the story from entry in the contest.
5. The winning organization will be announced in the January 2009 newsletter.
6. Shipping costs are included in the prize.
7. Realityworks, Inc. reserves the right to substitute prizes of equal value.

Tools You Can Use
Product Support at your service

Unlike some companies, you can call the Realityworks product support line and get a real live person to help you with your product concerns. They can talk you through just about any concern or problem you're having with your Realityworks products.

In addition to the one-on-one help, we share their product support tips every month right here by the clover (because we’re lucky to have such great product support technicians, of course).

Product support hours are Monday through Thursday 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fridays 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Standard Time. Call 800.830.1416 or +1.715.830.2040

Product Support Tip O' the Month

Gone, Baby Gone
My program’s simulation has already begun and all of my participants are at home for the weekend. I want to:

• Put Baby in day care
• Get a simulation report
• End a simulation
• Run a troubleshooting test

Can I do any of these while Babies are at home with participants?

Unfortunately, no. Those are all wonderful features that help make your RealCare® Program infant care simulation easier to administer. But once the Babies leave your building, Baby is gone, baby gone. Control Center software's communication pod has a range of up to 50 feet. For Baby to “talk” with your computer it must be within that range to receive a command. Look for a green checkmark in the COMM column on your Control Center software screen to make certain Baby is in communication range.