H. Clay Roberts, Senior Trainer

H. Clay Roberts, Senior Trainer

H. Clay Roberts
Search Institute Senior Trainer
Vision Training Associates
Home State: Washington

Professional Experience

  • Founder and president, Roberts & Associates, Bainbridge Island, Washington
  • Co-founder and partner, Flashpoint Development, Seattle, Washington
  • Chief executive officer, Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (CHEF) Seattle, Washington
  • Founder and president, Roberts, Fitzmanhan & Associates Inc., Seattle, Washington
  • Health education coordinator, Educational Service District #121, Seattle, Washington
  • Health education teacher, Jason Lee Junior High School, Tacoma, Washington
  • Administrative intern, drug education, Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia, Washington
  • Consultant in over 45 states and 5 foreign countries including the following agencies and groups:
    • Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration
    • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    • U.S. Department of Justice
    • Indian Health Service
    • National Cancer Institute
    • Disney Channel
    • Mothers Against Drunk Driving
    • American Medical Association

In the News

Education

  • M.S., health education, University of Oregon
  • B.A., health education, Central Washington State University

Honors, Awards, and Accomplishments

  • Keynote presenter at over 500 international, national, regional, state, and local community events.
  • Featured on NBC’s “Today Show” as a prevention expert
  • Presenter at the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Alcoholism Conference in Moscow
  • Developer of five national models
  • Identified by various HHS agencies
  • Programs visited by First Lady Nancy Reagan
  • Leadership Award, Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
  • Member, Eta Sigma Gamma (honorary health education fraternity)
  • Distinguished Service Award, Washington Center, American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Programs highlighted in Instructor magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, and on Hour Magazine, PBS Frontline, and a PBS nationally televised special “It Shouldn’t Hurt to Be a Kid”
  • Member of numerous committees and work groups, including the following:
    • Alcohol and Drug section of the conference “Preventing Disease/Promoting Health, Objectives for the Nation” for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Chairman, Concept Development Meeting for National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Youth and Alcohol Media Campaign
    • Member of the Task Force on Prevention of Adolescent Health Problems for the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    • Special Achievement Award, Central Washington University
    • Co-founder, Hoopaholics Treatment Center, a basketball camp for men over 35 which has raised over $150,000 for Childhaven
  • Adult past president and supporter of the Bainbridge Island Teen Center
  • Developed prevention programs and services that have generated over $100 million in sales and helped create a $20 million endowment
  • Founder and officer of the Roberts Family Foundation, a charitable trust
  • Chairman, Hoopfest for B.E.S.T., a basketball fundraiser for Bainbridge Island Public Schools, which has raised over $68,000 to support academic programs

Publications:
Principal author or co-developer of the following publications and programs

  • Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed, co-author with Neal Starkman and Peter Scales, Search Institute 1999
  • Get Real about Violence, violence prevention curriculum for grades K–9
  • Here’s Looking at You 2000, drug education curriculum for grades K–12
  • Natural Helpers, peer-helping program for grades 4–12
  • Get Real about AIDS, HIV-AIDS prevention curriculum for grades 4–12
  • Family Activity Book, family drug abuse prevention activities
  • The Refusal Skill, program that teaches people how to say no to their friends
  • INSITE, In-School Intervention Training Program for Educators
  • Natural Helpers at Work, peer helping program for the workplace

Request Clay Roberts for the following trainings by calling Search Institute Training at 877-240-7251 ext. 1 (outside the United States, dial 207-642-6270).

  • Introducing Developmental Assets
  • Building Developmental Assets in School Communities
  • Deepening Asset Building in School Communities
  • Keynote presentations designed for large groups and assemblies