Dave WolffeDave Wolffe earned his bachelor of arts degree and master's degree in education from Queens College. He has been an educator for over thirty-five years. He taught grades one through nine for most of his tenure with the New York City Board of Educatio and was a high school guidance counselor for the last thirteen years of his career. He served as an adjunct lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City for thirteen years and taught a sociology of conflict course in the Dispute Resolution Program there.Dave Wolffe was certified as a peer mediation specialist from the International Center for Conflict Resolution of Columbia University Teachers College. While working as a high school counselor, this training enabled him to teach high school students to facilitate peer mediation sessions with other students. During this experience, he and many of these young people helped to establish, facilitate, and participate in schoolwide and boroughwide violence-prevention programs. In addition, he is a certified mediator; Westchester Mediation of Cluster, located in Yonkers, New York, granted him this credential. He is also a fellow in the National Anger Management Association (NAMA).In addition, he developed an anger management program known as the Anger Management Power Program (AMP), on which this book is based. Dave has facilitated this training experience with over 1,000 high school students and well over 600 parents, educators, and other individuals who are concerned with youth in this area. He also established and has presented violence-prevention workshops based on this program for the New York City area's teacher education college programs, has worked with mediators in this area, and has created a facilitator-training method for this program.Dave currently resides in Connecticut with his life partner. Read More Read Less