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Help Shape Young Lives

A ready-to-teach 22-lesson resilience course built around the real-life story of The Runner. Through short author videos, guided discussion, online workbook activities and practical student tools, students explore choices, habits, influence, identity, discipline and direction — with everything prepared so teachers can focus on meaningful conversations, not lesson planning.

School Safe

Ready To Teach

Five Decision Framework

Digital Intergration

Zero Prep

Grounded in Raw, Lived Experience

This isn’t academic theory or a feel-good story. Built directly on a powerful story of breaking free from homelessness, youth justice, and systemic trauma, this 22-lesson curriculum provides a literal blueprint for life. It gives students a trusted, battle-tested framework to break negative habit loops and negative complex peer influences safely.

Fully Coordinated Student Handbooks.

No disjointed worksheets. Every digital lesson maps perfectly to the printable PDF or hardcopy Student Handbooks, keeping the youth grounded and engaged.

Turnkey Facilitation

Built for busy educators. The Facilitator Guide outlines exactly what to say, ask, and look for, requiring absolutely zero prep time before class.

How It Works

A simple, ready-to-use pathway from access to impact.

Bring The Runner Course to your school

— Youth Director

“A powerful story about choices and responsibility.”

— Secondary Teacher

“Every teen should read this book”.

— Youth Director

“This book has the power to influence young people and inspire hope”

  • One purchase provides:

    • Secure member login access

    • One digital access to student handbook per licence

    • Full access to the online course content

  • A structured, student-friendly workbook designed to guide reflection, comprehension, and discussion.
    Students engage with real themes through writing, analysis, and personal response.

  • Clear guidance for delivering the program with confidence, including discussion prompts, extension ideas, and structured lesson flow.

  • A guided digital experience that walks students through key themes, reflections, and activities step-by-step.
    Accessible anytime, allowing flexible delivery in classrooms or at home.

— Community Leader

Book and phone display hardcover of 'The Runner' by Samuel Carter with close-up of a person's face, showing an eye with a reflection, water droplets on skin, and wet hair, emphasizing a survival story theme.

Choose the option that best meets your needs

“This book has the power to influence young people and inspire hope”

“A powerful story about choices and responsibility.”

“Every teen should read this book”.

— Secondary Teacher

“This book has the power to influence young people and inspire hope”

— Community Leader

— Youth Director

Where real life meets real change

“The Runner is a powerful story about choices and responsibility.”

— Secondary Teacher

“Every teen should read this book”.

— Youth Director

— Youth Director

— Community Leader

Book and phone display hardcover of 'The Runner' by Samuel Carter with close-up of a person's face, showing an eye with a reflection, water droplets on skin, and wet hair, emphasizing a survival story theme.

Nobody plans to destroy their life.

The Runner Course gives families, schools and leaders a practical way to open honest conversations about choices, resilience, hope, habits and the kind of people we are becoming.

It happens one decision at a time.

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