Redleaf Resources, certified (REF #59437) with the State of California, Department of General Services as a Small Business (SB), a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE), has entered into a partnership with the Betty Ford Institute (www.bettyfordinstitute.org) to provide technical assistance for the development of cutting edge Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention Education & Services within local, state and  the national communities.  This exciting partnership is about making our world a better place.  Redleaf Resources also is offering Consultation to County Mental Health Substance Abuse Prevention, Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS) and contracts  to provide Technical Assistance for Schools, school districts and various mental health providers both public and private.  Redleaf Resources is the developer of the Indicated Prevention brief motivational interview process known as Brief Risk Reduction Interview and Intervention Model (BRRIIM).
 Jim Rothblatt and Jan Ryan are the chief trainers and consultants, with partnerships with other professionals with a wide variety of cross-over expertise.  Mr. Rothblatt and Ms. Ryan have a combined total of over 55 years of experience in cross-over fields of: education, including:
  • Prevention Education: Universal; Selected;Indicated (BRRIIM);
  • Needs-Based Master Schedules;
  • Comprehensive, Family-Centered Student Assistance Programs;
  • Mental Health Risk Behavior Prevention and Reduction;
  • Tolerance Education;
  • Focus Group Facilitation of students, staff, parents & community;
  • School Alcohol and other Drug Interventions for adolescents and adults;
  • School Violence Interventions for adolescents;
  • Student Interventions for any and all barriers to learning Pre-School through High School;
  • Alcohol and drug education policy;
  • Grant writing;
  • Focus Groups;
  • Conflict Resolution;
  • Team building;
  • Support for students, parents and staff;
  • Wilderness Therapy Encounter Groups;
Redleaf Resources has working relationships with many professionals who are experts in all named areas.  It is these professional relationships that make up the team of "Resources" who are available to meet a wide range of individual and systemic needs.
Redleaf Resources may be best known for the development of the Redleaf Resources (RR) Student Assistance Program Model (SAP).  This centralized SAP model was also known as: the Desert Sands USD SAP which has sustained for more than 20 years.  The RR SAP has been replicated in other public school districts, most notably eight selected school districts of Riverside County's 23 school districts, becoming available to over 100,000 students and their families. This replication was possible because of a federal Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Grant co-written by Ms. Ryan and Mr. Rothblatt.  The Riverside County Office of Education is the grant LEA and the grant is known locally as Connect to Achieve. 
Jim Rothblatt and Jan Ryan hold the copyright on the RR SAP training materials and they are the only authorized trainers for this Family Centered SAP Model, BRRIIM, that addresses any and all barriers to learning.  This SAP Model includes all three Institute of Medicine populations of prevention education/intervention: 1) Universal; 2) Selected; and 3) Indicated.
In these days of tight fiscal resources, Redleaf Resources excels in utilizing existing resources for maximum efficiency.  A prime example is expertise in developing intelligently designed "needs-based" Master Schedules.  Jim Rothblatt has had years of experience at both the middle school and high school levels in creating student needs-based curriculum delivery systems, e.g. Master Schedules, with maximum staff input that met student needs and worked with staff strengths.  Jim Rothblatt has opened school with Master Schedules in place that were balanced and conflict free.  He has also created "a school within a school" using existing staff resources that addressed "at risk" students needs, without any additional financial costs and with reduced class size as compared to the rest of the high school.  "Alternative Education" is within reach of any and all students within any school system using existing resources.
Jim Rothblatt