Elayne bennett biography for kids

Elayne Bennett "developed the Best Friends program in 1987, and due to the overwhelming demand for a boys' program, she launched Best Men in 2000.

She earned her B.A. and M.Ed. from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Elayne Bennett has worked tirelessly in urban, suburban, and rural environments to bring hope and guidance to the lives of girls.

LOVE, SELF-RESPECT, DECISION MAKING and PEER COUNSELING have become the cornerstones for success with teens BY ELAYNE BENNETT PRESIDENT AND.

Elayne Glover Bennett is the founder and president of the Best Friends Foundation and the author of a model curriculum that tar-gets bullying, drug abuse.

Elayne Bennett, a longtime educator, is founder and president of the Best Friends Foundation and author of a core curriculum that targets.

This book is meant to educate and inform everyone on the dangers that are out there for our children.

Mrs. Bennett serves as the President and Founder of the Best Friends Foundation. In addition to teaching the Foundation's abstinence curriculum and training educators throughout the country, Mrs. Bennett serves as a spokeswoman on issues of adolescent behavior and development.

"She has appeared on several national television shows, in which the Best Friends and Best Men programs were showcased as solutions to teen pregnancy, including ABC Nightline, CBS The Early Show, PBS To the Contrary, Fox News The O'Reilly Factor, ABC World News Tonight, and NBC The Today Show.

Her speeches and collected writings have contributed to the books Giving Back by Merrill J. Oster and Mike Hamel, Restoring the Teenage Soul by Margaret Meeker, M.D., Building