Congratulations! You have booked Laura Stack of Johnny’s Ambassadors to speak at an upcoming event for your school or community! We are so excited to work with your teens, parents, and community members. Here’s what you need to know before, during, and after her talk! Please email [email protected] if you have any questions!
Before
1. Please complete our pre-program questionnaire a month prior to your event, so we make sure we have the correct details.
2. I prefer one hour for school assemblies (not counting passing and getting settled time), if possible. For parent coffees or lunch and learn, please also schedule one hour. For conferences, keynotes may be up between 45-90 minutes. Please list the set up, dismissal, start, and end times in the questionnaire.
3. My AV requests are detailed on this page. I have a PC with a built-in HDMI port. I show a PowerPoint with a video in it, so I will need audio from the computer. I need to be able to operate and touch my computer from the stage, please. I jump slides and need to be able to see the next slide. It doesn’t work to put my computer in a sound booth or AV table in back. I have a remote HDMI solution if you can’t bring a cable to the stage. Please test your equipment and connection with a PC (not a Mac or a Chromebook) prior to my arrival. I can’t give an assembly without the PowerPoint, so this is very important to have someone double check the setup.
4. I will also need a microphone, and I prefer a wireless (lapel) lavaliere if at all possible. If not, I can use a wireless handheld (I don’t stand behind a podium). Please change the batteries so they are fresh.
5. For school assemblies, we give the students bracelets afterward. Please provide a 4-6 foot table near the door where students will exit.
6. Please provide a folding chair for John if we are in a gym.
7. Please provide two bottles of room temperature water.
8. Johnny’s Ambassadors is a 501c3 with EIN 85-0593925. Here is a link to our W9. All checks should be payable to Johnny’s Ambassadors and mailed to 4242 Hickory Oaks Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104.
9. A sample editable flyer, a letter to parents, and other promotional materials may be found on the media kit page. Here are some parent educational flyers and videos you can distribute to raise awareness.
10. As an option (no charge), we offer a pre/post student survey to measure how my presentation impacted your students. Students would answer 10 questions before and after my talk. We then compare the results of those who took both surveys and send you an analysis afterward to present to your board, district, or administration. You can preview a sample here. Don’t send out this link, however, as you will receive two CUSTOM links for your school. The expectation is you would give dedicated class time for students to take the pre-survey the week prior to the assembly. Then students take the post-survey 1-2 days following in class. Students must take BOTH the pre- and post- test, or the results will be invalid, and you won’t have a good sample size. Let me know if you wish to participate at [email protected].
During
1. We arrive 30-45 minutes prior to each presentation to set up Laura’s computer. We will check into the front office, so please meet us there to escort us down to the meeting space. I travel with my husband, John, our Chairman and COO. He will make all our travel arrangements. Please ensure his name is on the list to check in at the front office as well. Please let us know who will meet us to set up. Also please advise if we should check in anywhere other than the front office and if there are any parking instructions.
2. Here is a link to Laura’s introduction to have someone read before she starts (generally the principal). Before introducing Laura, please review your behavioral expectations for assemblies, including putting away phones, taking out earbuds, and taking down hoods.
3. If you have a prevention club, student council, SADD club, or youth leadership group, they can co-present a portion of the assembly with me. We have 2-6 students present “The Dirty Dozen Harms of Youth THC Youth” near the end of my presentation. They would come up on to the stage with me when I call them up. I will click the slides for them, and they will take turns reading the notes I provide for each slide. Go here to download the slides. The notes are in the slides themselves, so please print them out for your students.
4. For conferences or parent breakfasts, please let us know if you want to pre-order copies of Laura’s book, “The Dangerous Truth About Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story.” We don’t “sell” books due to nonprofit rules, but we can give one as a gift if someone chooses to donate to Johnny’s Ambassadors. Or, you can pre-purchase a book for each person and have them shipped prior to your event at $15 per book plus shipping.
After
1. Complete the post assessment for all students who have taken the pre assessment (if applicable). Results will not be valid unless there is a match on email address for each student.
2. If you didn’t complete the pre/post surveys, we would still love to get feedback from your students about the assembly to share with you. No identifying information is gathered, and the collective results will be shared with you. Please give them this link.
3. If students are interested in learning more, please forward this page to your health, biology, or PE teacher (wherever the substance abuse unit is taught) to give them free resources to reinforce Laura’s message.
4. If a student is caught with marijuana at school, we offer a free 8-module self-paced THC educational curriculum with a parallel parent track (no charge for up to 20 students per month). After completion of the course, the student will receive a certificate of completion to send to you. Let me know if you would like the login information.
Thank you for helping Johnny’s Ambassadors educate parents, teens, and communities about the dangers of today’s high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development, psychosis, and suicide.