Susie Vanderlip brings a lifetime of experience, strength and Hope from an unusual blend of several significant and simultaneous paths:

Speaker and Author:

• Susie has spoken to over ONE million teens and adult in 47 states and Canada.
• Author of 52 Ways to Protect Your Teen - Guiding Teens to Good Choices and Success
• Susie Vanderlip is one of 200 people inducted into the CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame by the National Speakers Association and less than 500 people in the world to become a Certified Speaking Professional, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association.
• Interviewed on FOX News Live as Youth and Family Issues Expert
• Weekly columnist for 71 weeks of IT'S NOT EASY BEING A TEEN, Wellington Daily News, coaching adults in teen issues and communication with their teens.
• Contributing author to four books:
      LESSONS FROM THE ROAD
      TEEN POWER TOO
      LEAD NOW!
      LEAD NOW and Beyond!
• Creates and distributes NEWS OF HOPE email newsletter on current prevention and pertinent teen and parenting topics. (To be on the list, email us Legacy Of Hope^®: Contact Susie Vanderlip.)
• Producer of videos and audio tapes available at PRODUCTS FOR YOU.

Prevention Specialist and Consultant:

• Susie keynotes for hundreds of notable prevention and leadership organizations; staff development for teachers and counselors at all levels of elementary, secondary and college education; and national, state and local associations. Clients include: 
  
  CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America), Betty Ford Center, Hazelden Foundation, Caron Foundation, Ben Franklin Institute National Adolescent Mental Health, MADD, SADD, Youth to Youth, Friday Night Live, PRIDE, Youth Crime Watch of America, YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, FCCLA, Key Clubs, VICA, 4H, NCAA, National Council on Alcoholism and Addiction, National Association of Social Workers, American Counseling Association, and more.
  
  She helped design and implement the first Youth Performing Arts Institute on HIV/AIDS Prevention and multiple Youth Service Conferences.
  
  More information on association, community and educator events.
  
• Legacy of Hope^® assemblies motivate teens to reach out and ask for help from on-campus support groups and peer helpers. Many schools choose to administer the SURVEY OF Hope Student Survey to their student body after Susie's assemblies. Thousands of teens are finding their way out of isolation and secrecy common to families of alcoholics, and gaining Hope and new self-confidence for a better future.
  
  80% of middle school and high school teens want support groups on campus.
  31% of middle school and 17% of high school students request to participate.
  Up to 40% of tenth graders in high schools have asked for help with depression.
  
  To book an assembly, contact Susie
  
• Susie has had one-on-one conversations with over 25,000 individual teens.
  She has had the unique inside view of teens across America and their reasons for destructive choices: their feelings.
  Troubled teens seek her out after her assemblies and keynotes.
  From student leaders to high-risk teens, these youth typically express deep emotional distress including suicidal and violent thoughts due to someone else's drinking or drug use in their homes and associated verbal/physical/sexual abuse.
  
  Susie has been in a unique position to help teens unburden their painful secrets and get them the critical help that saves many of their lives. She guides them with an extensive knowledge of prevention and intervention resources and actively advocates for increased mental health services in our schools.
  
• Susie has been personally involved with the 12-Step programs for over twenty years and in collaboration with husband Dr. Ken Vanderlip, Clinical Psychologist specializing in substance abuse, PTSD and stress management issues, since 1991.
  
• Susie is a member of CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) and her local Orange County Substance Abuse Prevention Network. She works closely with the National Peer Helpers Association and American Counseling Association at state and national levels.

Life Balance and Stress Management Consultant:

• Susie and Dr. Ken Vanderlip, husband and clinical psychologist, present content-rich DE-STRESS FOR SUCCESS^® aka THRIVE, DON'T JUST SURVIVE life balance workshops and seminars.
  
• Individually and together, they teach tools for the enrichment of the body, the mind and the spirit, making productive decisions possible in the midst of 21st Century change.
  
• Susie's 30 years of dance, plus teacher of meditation and yoga, and husband Ken's 30 years in Judo and as a psychologist create a unique blend of talents and expertise that audiences fully enjoy. Visit DE-STRESS FOR SUCCESS^® for more information.
  
  To schedule stress management seminars or workshops.

Performer and Artist:

• Susie has 30 years professional experience as dancer, choreographer, artistic director, and actor with Dance Kaleidoscope of Orange County.
  
  She toured with the Bob Hope USO to military bases for 8 years and Orange County Performing Arts Center educational outreach for 5 years.
  
• She minored in modern dance at UCLA and has studied with such notables as Bella Lewitzky, Gus Giordano, Chet Walker, Fred Walton, Nancy Lanier, and at the American Dance Festival at Duke University. She completed the Professional Actors Conservatory at South Coast Repertory, a Tony Award winning regional theater, in Costa Mesa, California in the summer of 1998.

Educator:

• Susie Vanderlip is an Associate Professor in Dance at Coastline Community College where she taught for 12 years. Instructor in studios, and corporate fitness consultant in modern, jazz, and hip hop dance; Hatha Yoga; and choreography.

Businesswoman and Entrepreneur:

• Susie owned and operated an employment agency specializing in computer professionals for over 12 years. Earlier experience included computer software sales to Fortune 500 clients: banks and oil companies; computer software support; and computer programming and analysis in IBM mainframe environments.

Education:

• Married since 1984 to Dr. Ken Vanderlip, licensed Clinical Psychologist. Live together with cat, Alafia, in Orange County, California. Susie Vanderlip was born and raised in Lakewood, California.
  
• University of California, Los Angeles
  Bachelor of Arts Degree in
  Mathematics/Computer Science with minor studies in Dance
  Cum Laude Graduate and Regents Scholar
  
• Youth Achievements: Most Likely to Succeed, Most Intelligent, and Valedictorian of high school graduating class of 1500 students at Lakewood High School, Lakewood, California. 3rd Place college scholarship winner in National Bobbie Brooks Fashion Awards competition, Teen Board member for national department Store chain, high school cheerleader, class officer, President of CERES Service Club, officer in National and State Honor Societies, and Key Club member.

Personal Note:  
Feel free to contact Susie with questions

Susie Vanderlip was motivated to create and tour Legacy Of Hope^® as a result of the death of her first husband from the unintentional overdose of alcohol, cocaine and Percodan (pain killer) at the age of 35. Sweethearts from the age of 15 and married upon graduation from college, their relationship spanned 18 years. His drinking and drug use began socially in college, after which, as a dentist, he added prescription drugs and eventually illegal drugs which he used socially with other accomplished professionals.

The progressive disease of addiction proceeded to create trauma and turmoil in their home, their finances, and eventually their marriage. The deterioration of the marriage led to divorce in June of 1984. In August 1984, he died. Susie has been involved in support programs for the families of alcoholics and addicts since 1982.

Eight years after his death, Susie went into the dance studio to choreograph a piece about relationships. Over the next six months, writing, choreographing, rehearsing and Beta testing the material on a wide variety of audiences, Legacy Of Hope^® was premiered under its original title, LEGACY OF OBSESSION, at Cypress High School, Cypress, California during Red Ribbon Week, October, 1991. As she may be heard in response to audience questions, she felt God put a "burning bush" on her doorstep, channeling this remarkable performance piece through her and creating the path to thousands of emotionally distressed teens and their families.

Since that time, the LEGACY outreach has continued to evolve, incorporating the stories of real people Susie has met along the way. The LEGACY mission continues to bring awareness, Hope and healing to the children, friends and families adversely affected by someone else's drinking, drug use, neglectful and/or abusive behaviors.

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