For Immediate Release “Today’s Family” show to feature Positive Action --“Positive Action Brings About Positive Change.”--

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February 14, 2007, Deerfield Beach, FL—New Line Media is pleased to announce the selection of Positive Action for its innovative, educational television series, Today’s Family. The company will be featured in a segment on “Building a Solid Foundation” in the show’s series, “Touching Hearts, Changing Lives”.

“As a man thinks, so he is.”  If an individual believes they can, they usually do.  The philosophy behind this biblical quote is the foundation for a unique program designed to nip in the bud the monotonous cycle of negative thinking and behavior.  For over 25 years, Positive Action has targeted children from kindergarten through high school, instilling in them the tendency toward thinking positive and feeling good about themselves.  This positive way of thinking, in turn, leads to positive behaviors that help a student succeed long after they’ve graduated from high school.

The segment will educate viewers on the program, exploring the various programs and materials available to both families and educators of various grade levels, and other members of the community who have benefited from Positive Action.  Viewers will see Positive Action at work in a classroom setting and see its impact on the surrounding community.

The numbers speak for themselves:  In areas where Positive Action’s programs have been implemented, academic achievement rose by as much as 75% while violence decreased by up to 85% and drug, alcohol and tobacco use decreased by as much as 71%. 

Airing times—Last Updated: 2007-07-11

Additional airing times and locations will be added as they are scheduled, check back to see when this show will air in your area.

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Contact:

Brenda Mabbitt
PTG Studios/New Line Media
(800) 597-1186

ABC Family Channel films the Positive Action Program in Uintah County, Utah

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ABC Films the Positive Action Curricula at Ashley Elementary School (103KB PDF)

Tuesday, April 24, Vernal saw the filming of ABC’s Platinum channel program, Positive Action, at Ashley Elementary in Vernal UT.

Kris Gerber, educational coordinator for Positive Action, announced before a packed library, “Positive Action comes from the concepts of ‘Thoughts–Actions–Feelings.’ Or, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “When I do good, I feel good; When I do bad, I feel bad,” says Gerber.

As the ABC camera roles, Gerber challenges the PA program participants to find a sense of personal value in their own existence. The audience of children, parents and grandparents, packed around the library tables, listen intently to Gerber’s words.

“Simply put,” says Dr. Carol Allred, creator of Positive Action, “it is easier to be negative than to be positive.” The technique forces a person to expel negative thoughts and retain positive thoughts and actions.

Allred, creator of the Positive Action program in 1971, teaches families to “make a difference, to provide a legacy of happy and successful children.”

That was then, this is now; before her is a group of Uintah Basin families who want to learn a methodology designed to help them be ‘Happy and Productive.’ Zahira Collazo, ABC-TV Oxygen Channel film producer, turns her camera onto the families who are building collages under the direction of Paris Anderton.

Anderton, coordinator from the Northeastern Counseling Center, asks participant to select collage pictures that “reflect their family’s unique characteristics.” She requests that individuals draw from their family experience and learn to break the generational cycle of negativity.

The goal, as Allred explains, “is to teach concepts for the family based on a conceptual model of the individual.”

“It is easy to be negative,” Allred says, “Harder still, to re-train yourself to be positive.” “Positive action programs teach people to find happiness within themselves, or intrinsic motivation.”

Allred says finding oneself is empowering, “providing positive thoughts develop positive results.

This program develops positive results in avoiding drugs, alcohol, and destructive behaviors in general for families in rural zones.

Tammy Pummell, PA school survey coordinator, says, we fi nd that “by using positive action students feel better about themselves and show improvement in academics and behavior.”

Finally, Ronee Wopsock, director if the Ute tribe positive action program, summarizes the program this way, “Positive action has brought a change among tribal members to break a negative cycle of behaviors that is sometimes generational.” “We will use the techniques of positive actions to connect to the traditions of our past.”

In the thirty years since the early application of Allred’s philosophy, positive action programing has developed from the individual, to the family and now, the community.

Allred says that the program offers, “empowerment for the individual and the family to thrive” in today’s world of negativity.”

ABC’s Family Channel will probably air the program this June with he exact date to be provided later.