Consulting School Programs
The
C.O.U.R.S.E.
In 1997, two teenage girls were murdered
in Maureen’s hometown of Salem, New Hampshire. Three boys,
who were acquaintances of the girls, drove north from a suburb
of Boston with the premeditated intention of “seeing what
it felt like to kill someone.”
These senseless murders hit close to home
for the town’s residents as they felt first hand the horror
and confusion that parents in Columbine and other towns across
the nation had so recently felt when violence rocked their world.
Shortly after this incident Maureen was asked to head up the self-esteem committee of the town’s DAVP--Drug, Alcohol and Violence Prevention program. After reviewing the country’s foremost programs she realized that there were very few, if any, programs that addressed the cause of violence among our youth and not just the symptoms. So for the next two years she worked closely with the teachers in the public high school, as well as the friends of the girls who were murdered, developing...
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