Elayne Glover Bennett

Elayne Bennett is the founder and director of the Best Friends Foundation, which focuses on adolescent development and behavior in the current culture and fostering positive peer interaction. She created the original Best Friends program for adolescent girls in 1987 while at the Child Development Center at Georgetown University. Because of its success, teachers and principals urged her to develop a program for boys. She launched the Best Men program in 2000. She is the author of a model...See more

Elayne Bennett is the founder and director of the Best Friends Foundation, which focuses on adolescent development and behavior in the current culture and fostering positive peer interaction. She created the original Best Friends program for adolescent girls in 1987 while at the Child Development Center at Georgetown University. Because of its success, teachers and principals urged her to develop a program for boys. She launched the Best Men program in 2000. She is the author of a model curriculum for elementary, middle, and high school students that focuses on drug, violence, and abuse prevention through character development. She has taught this curriculum in twenty-seven Washington, DC, public schools. She is the wife of William J. Bennett and the mother of two sons. See less