Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
– Peter F. Drucker

On Friday, April 3, 2009 60 students and law enforcement officials from Fairleigh Dickinson University Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies School of Administrative Science visited the United States Military Academy at West Point for an initiative highlighting character, service and leadership.

On Wednesday, February 27, 2009, a school and community initiative titled Creating a Culture of Character and Achievement: gang awareness and resistance, dealing with anger, resolving conflict, become a person of character continued with two presentations – one to over 400 tenth graders and the other to a core group of district leaders including the superintendent, administrators, board of education members, supervisors and law enforcement personnel.

The 2009 D.A.R.E. NJ annual state training conference titled Trends, Changes & Challenges was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey from April 28-30, 2009 and was attended by over 300 D.A.R.E. officers, educators, military personnel, community leaders and students. Nicholas R. DeMauro, Chairman & CEO and Dr. Barbara Allen-Walker, Director of Training and Education are to be commended for their leadership with coordinating this event.

On Thursday, April 16, 2009, two years after the Virginia Tech shootings, the families of Julia Kathleen Pryde and Erin Nicole Peterson—students who died in the tragedy—filed a lawsuit in the Fairfax County Virginia Circuit Court and issued a statement explaining why.

"We raised our daughters with a sense of integrity, a desire to seek the truth and a belief in keeping their word. Virginia Tech did not keep its word to us. We have filed this lawsuit in the hope that we will receive accountability for the tragic events of April 16, 2007."

To bring new consciousness to families and to educate teens about the dangers of driving irresponsibly or being the passenger in the hands of an irresponsible driver.
Objective of the
Rebeka Verea Foundation

On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, thanks to the leadership of Dr. Jorge L. Verea and his wife Lourdes, over 400 high school students from Bergen and Essex Counties in New Jersey attended the 4th Annual Rebeka Verea Foundation Symposium in Cliffside Park.

On Saturday, May 9, 2009 a Police and Public Safety Expo was held at the Livingston Mall in New Jersey as coordinated by the Livingston Police Department.

The venue was a collaboration of federal, state, regional, county and local law enforcement agencies. It represented an outstanding community policing initiative allowing residents to interact with law enforcement and public safety officials.

On April 21, 2009, as the world is called to reverently commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, a reflection on a child who dramatically personifies the sacredness of all human life is in order.

Captain Lou Mulkey was one of the nine firefighters who died in a Charleston, South Carolina warehouse fire on June 18, 2007. His life was an example of character, courage and service through love for his wife, his players and his community.