Little Friends for Peace is a Mom-Dad team dedicated to teaching non-violence skills to young children with playful skill-building activities by training their adult and teen leaders.

The History

Mary Joan and Jerry Park, parents of six and trained as teachers and family counselors, started Little Friends for Peace in St. Paul , Minnesota in 1981. After Jerry took a social working job with the Don Quijote Center in 1988 LFFP moved to Mount Rainier, MD and have been based there ever since. LFFP received 501(c) 3 status in July 2006 and since has established a downtown D.C. "Peace Room" at the Perry School Community Services Center. Offices are located at the Perry School Inc. in NW D.C.

The Mission

LFFP teaches that acts of violence from playground put-downs, to family fights, to street crime, to international conflicts build on each other, from the ground up, like a house constructed off-balance—over time and mostly unknowingly. The way to break down violence is to learn peace at an early age . . . and to practice it at every age.

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