OS, Inc. has had numerous opportunities in the last month to exhibit at several events including the Roxana's "Out of Darkness Walk" and the 2025 IABH Conference. We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to share the amazing work and programming that OS and OS Teams continue to accomplish!

If you or someone you know would like OS, Inc. to table or exhibit at any school or community event, please reach out to IABH staff to help us get it on the schedule.

Bolingbrook High School has decided to start up their own OS Team and jump right into completing their Adult Implementation & Student Facilitation Trainings. The afternoon was spent diving into what OS is and the different types of programming they can get involved with. While they might have a small group of students to start, they are incredibly excited to see how far they are able to take their Team and community.

If you are a new OS Team or even a returning OS Team, please contact Michaela Price, michaela@ilabh.org, to schedule your Facilitation Training!

Glenbrook North OS also took advantage of the FREE OS, Inc. Facilitation training to brush up on their leadership and facilitation skills ahead of their retreat! With lots of returning and new student leaders the training was an incredibly night of growth and laughter! This Team took on new challenges and pushed themselves out of their comfort zones as they prepare to host one of their largest retreats in years!

Schaumburg OS requested the OS, Inc. Facilitation training, where we spent four hours with incredible leaders who are ready to tackle their Spring retreat. Great conversations and questions prompted this group to continue growing as they completed the third training in their Team's training series! During the evening, the Team also received amazing news that their 2025 fundraiser was a complete success, thus allowing them to help alleviate some of the cost for their students to attend CGTI Mid-Year and CGTI 2026!

If you need any help brainstorming fundraising ideas reach out to IABH staff for to schedule a call!

The Evergreen Park OS Team had a great night full of individual and team growth during their OS, Inc. Facilitation Training! Their leaders came ready to learn and were open to pushing themselves out of their comfort zones to prepare for their spring retreat. OS, Inc. is excited to continue providing trainings and workshops to any OS Team that is looking to expand their leadership skills!

East Leyden OS Team hosted several events during Red Ribbon Week including a Photo Booth with a custom design-filter, hand painting puzzle pieces, and "donut" do drugs school-wide trivia! We are incredibly proud of all of the hard-work and dedication each OS Team brings to their schools and communities!

If your Team has any events, trainings, or retreats we would love to support you all before, during or after! Please reach out to us for any brainstorming, assistance, or support that your Team may need during this school year!

Thank you everyone who submitted nominations for the 2026 OS, Inc. Board of Directors, we appreciate your dedication to improving OS programming! OS, Inc. is working through all of the amazing nominations and we will announce the 2026 OS Board of Directors ballots soon.

Once the ballots are released, remember it is each accredited Team's responsibility to vote!

This year all of our trainings will be pre-recorded for OS Teams to watch whenever the time is convenient and will be FREE. We have amazing new speakers to give our Teams the best available resources and information!

Feel free to watch any training as often as you'd like and make sure to check out our official training booklet below to see all of the amazing individuals we are working with this school year! If you decide to do a "watch party" with your team, please share that with us, so we can record the reach of each training.

Videos will be available starting November 17, 2025! You will receive access information at that time!

Mid-Year Registration is now open to everyone, and we hope to see you all there! Any Teams interested in the CGTI Mid-Year can access general registration starting November 1 and going until December 15 or until we reach capacity. 

Location: Marriott Hotel & Conference Center | Bloomington-Normal, IL

When: January 17-18, 2026

Cost: $180 shared room | $330 single room 

Cost includes overnight stay, meals, event manual and shirt 

Theme: Reach for the Stars!

This year’s theme is all about thinking above and beyond, turning dreams into realities and spreading positive change far and wide. 

This project puts cameras in the hands of youth and encourages them to document how they are directly impacted by issues and conditions in their community. Students will complete 1, 4, 8, or 16 lessons of training involving advocacy, public speaking, photography, gambling prevention, and healthy risk taking. IABH staff can easily adapt the number of sessions to best fit the needs and schedule of your OS Team!

From there, students will be given time to take photographs of gambling in their community and develop captions in order to see youth perspectives.  After all their hard work, your students will display their photographs with captions at a community exhibition to talk with decision makers. At the end of the project, students will complete a ‘Call to Action’ to continue making change with their creative pieces.

Generation Lead is excited to share that we now have three commercials that can be requested to showcase our campaign in a digital media format. We have 3 different commercials: Day in the Life, Peer Pressure, and Sticky Notes. These commercials can be played during morning announcements, sports broadcasts or jumbotrons, podcasts, social media posts, lunch time video montages, during a training meeting with student leaders, or any other virtual space at your school or community-based organizations. We offer a range of commercials, in a range of time frames. To obtain access to these commercials, fill out the request form at the link below.