Who is Trevor Romain?

Many people have dedicated their lives to helping children. Many people have made incredible impacts on children. But there are very few have spoken to and listened to as many children as Trevor Romain.
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After an experience in the South African army, where he had an encounter with a badly injured child, he knew that one day he wanted to help to children who are hurting. A few years after that experience, and working in South Africa as a creative director at an ad agency, Trevor moved to the United States and his journey of helping children began.

Trevor has been speaking to children and working with children for over 30 years. He realized he had a natural ability to connect with children when he volunteered to visit terminally ill children at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin. He quickly became known as the Doctor of Mischief, meaning he drove the kids crazy with his jokes and pranks, but at the same time giving them a trusting ear and hope for the future, whatever the future held. It was during these hospital visits that Trevor realized that adults sometimes tell children what they think they need to hear, instead of listening to what they are asking for.

It was with this knowledge that Trevor wrote his series of best-selling self-help children's books. Some of them include, How To Do Homework Without Throwing Up, Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain, Cliques, Phonies, and Other Baloney, and What On Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies.  Trevor has the ability to tackle some tough topics while keeping kids engaged with humor.

The success of these books led to the formation of The Trevor Romain Company. The company produced an award-winning series of animated DVDs based on these books. The series has run on PBS, and the DVDs are used in schools all across the country. The Trevor Romain Company then saw the need for a bullying curriculum that is integrated into the classroom, something that hadn’t been done before.

Having books, DVDs, and a true educational component has led to many partnerships for Trevor and The Trevor Romain Company. Trevor has now worked with former child soldiers in Africa, in orphanages in Africa, and teamed up with the USO and The Comfort Crew for Military Kids to speak to kids on military bases for seven years. Trevor has spoken to almost 300,000 military kids in 22 different countries. When asked if he ever gets tired of all the travel and all of the presentations to kids, Trevor has said “Yes, but when I am able to stand in front of children and watch them laugh, and then express some of their greatest fears and struggles,  and be able to give them some encouragement, I will have the energy to do this for a long time”.

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