Speakers' Bureau

The Bureau provides training and guidance equipping our speakers with the resources and guidelines to build on their current skills, while providing avenues to attain confidence and knowledge to speak in front of a live audience.

Our #ChooseKind initiative is incredibly unique because it benefits CCA Kids/Adults (affected individuals with craniofacial conditions) by giving them a positive platform and a tool to talk about their difference confidently, but also is incredibly impactful to students who read the books and hear these presentations.

Teachers report that after using our free curriculum and participating in a presentation visit or Skype session, students are more outgoing and more patient with each other, and bullying problems get resolved. This proactive kindness education is even stronger and more powerful than bullying prevention alone, because our resources help students form values that will stay with them their entire lives. The #ChooseKind message is truly universal because at some point in all of our lives we feel unsure, self-conscious, and out of place.

If your school is located in an area without a CCA Family to represent, we can set up a Skype video session or a pen pal program. These activities reinforce the message of the book (if using our free curriculum/ i.e. Wonder), #ChooseKind, and to strengthen empathy bonds in students across the country. Teachers love these opportunities to bring the concepts to life. Some classrooms have been so moved that they’ve responded in many ways, like holding school-wide walk-a-thons and 5Ks for CCA, others starting marble jars to count kind acts, some setting up peer mentoring programs, and a few special communities have hosted city-wide assemblies.

Watch our Wonder Kids trailer by following the link above.

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Watch our Trainers, David and Marlena, present Love At Second Sight. It is an educational video that transforms attitudes about appearance and encourages students to accept themselves and others. It’s about difference and belonging, judgment and inclusion. To watch, follow the link above.