Video List
The following videos/DVDs are owned by the St. Cloud Area Human Service Council. If your organization is a member, you can check out these training videos/DVDs at no-cost to your organization. This is a benefit of membership. To checkout any of these resources, contact Laura Hood at laura.hood@ci.stcloud.mn.us or call 255-7245 to reserve the video.
Member organizations are able to check-out one video at a time and must indicate an estimated return date. If videos are not returned, the organization that checked out the video will be responsible for the replacement cost of the video.
Addict Chronicles
Includes: DVD
A collection of experiences told by the addicts who have survived addiction.
For The Love of It with Dewitt Jones
Includes: 25 minute DVD and has online printing abilities for supplemental materials
How can you find a way to love what you do? Every day? Join Dewitt Jones as he
shares with audiences the importance of beginning each day with a full cup.
Fun Is Good Featuring the St. Paul Saints
Includes: 14 minute DVD, 16 minute DVD – Extended version, PowerPoint,
Presentation on CD and 9 workbooks
It’s about understanding how having a positive attitude and finding passion can help us overcome challenges and make our work environments more productive, more fulfilling and more fun.
Generation WHY? By Eric Chester
Includes: 45 minutes of live video clips
DVD features Eric Chester, America’s premier expert on 16 to 24 year-olds in the workplace.
Gifts from the Mountain by Eileen McDargh
Includes: 14 minute DVD and has online printing abilities for supplemental materials.
Author Eileen McDargh discusses six fundamental truths to help us deal with life’s complexities. We all climb some kind of mountain every day. By slowing down and considering our surroundings, we can better appreciate the journey, and lead more productive, positive, and purposeful lives
How to Run an Effective Grassroots Campaign
Includes: DVD
John Kaul, a successful lobbyist, got the idea to create this DVD after observing hundreds of grassroots campaigns succeed or fair. Kaul asked 25 legislators a series of question designed to find out what works and what doesn’t in grassroots communications. The outcome of his research provides a blueprint for you to develop an effective grassroots campaign.
Innovation at The Verge
Includes: 18 minute DVD and has online printing abilities for supplemental materials.
Innovation at the Verge teaches you how to create your own future by finding your next innovation. Through Stories and examples, you will learn how to bring together your ideas with those of others as you meet at the Verge.
Ouch! That Stereotype Hurts
Includes: 12 min. Ouch! video, 5 min. video-based Speaking Up Activity, 13 30 sec.
Alternate. Ouch! videos, Leader’s Guide and PowerPoint presentation, and “Ouch! That
Stereotype Hurts” book The video and materials strive to teach individuals to recognize and speak up against stereotypes.
Parenting: Ready, Set, Go!
Includes: DVD (Success by Six) Early Literacy 5 easy things
Seeking Homes for People
Includes: 4 DVD’S
1. A 23 minute short presentation that touches on “vision of the kind of community we seek” the people who experience homelessness”, what it might be like to be in their shoes, key causes, key responses, and sources of hope.
2. Educator Version, a 50 minute version, which includes all of the above topics more fully, and includes an additional section on “gaps” that still need to be addressed.
A Tale of “O” – On Being Different
Includes: 27-minute (full-length) version and the 18-minute training version and
Instructor’s and User’s Guide with Reproducible Handouts. Hailed as a classic, and proven in thousands of organizations. “O” is an entertaining, captivating parable about what happens to any new or different kind of person in a group and how the situation can be managed.
Shifting Years – Leveraging the Power of Generations by Laura Goodrich
Includes: 12 minute DVD that discusses how multiple generations working together should be leveraged as a source of great potential – instead of a cause for tension. By finding a common ground, respecting differences, and letting go of assumptions, great things can happen!
Turn ‘Em On…Turn ‘Em Loose! Presented by Tastefully Simple
Includes: 24 minute DVD that explores how to create a culture that results in turned-on, energized team members and phenomenal growth. Illustrates how an organization that focuses on not only having the best product, but also employees who celebrate teamwork, passion and respect, can make an enormous impact in having a successful workplace.
Your Summit Awaits by Jamie Clarke
Includes: 20 minute DVD by Jamie Clarke, Canadian mountaineer, adventurer, and three-time Mount Everest explorer as he shares from the heart his incredible experiences on the mountain.
Your Summit Awaits is a fundamental development program that will inspire audiences to view their challenges and dreams with courage and determination.
New in 2014
Arrival: Women's Vision for a New Home
Produced in St. Cloud by KSMQ Public Television.
The 30-minute video features interviews with four women who share their personal story.
The video ties into the book and two-part documentary, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
The Typist
Produced in St. Cloud by KSMQ Public Television – 56 minute documentary follows the life and work of Larry Tillemans, the last living clerk-typist from the Nuremberg Trials. As a sergeant in the U.S. 3rd Army, it was Larry's duty to document the testimony of victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust – information that deeply affected the young Minnesotan. After years of carrying this emotional burden, Larry decided to share his experiences with as many people as possible, a tireless effort that brought one man's voice to a world that sometimes struggles to remember the lessons of the past.
*Donated to the Council from Mary Christen Czech & Chuck Czech, co-produced the video.