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2018 Maui Hero Project
Cultural Emergency Response Team (CERT) *Click image below for Maui News article 
Loren Lapow, founding director of the hero project, guides 170 Ignacio junior high students through “Epic Day,” the cathartic, emotional, demanding and innovative inaugural event of the hero project’s ground-breaking anti-bullying program.
Click the Link Below, DURANGO HERALD ARTICLE #1 |
20th Anniversary, Pre-Pandemic
Disaster Simulation HEROEZ Camp *Click image below for Maui News article 
"Kids today – as ever – don’t enjoy a good reputation. The critique of modern teenagers – that they are spoiled brutes sheltered by parents, smartphones and educators from life’s hard truths – gets regular airing in corporate board rooms, newspaper editorials and online message boards. But, on Tuesday, Escalante Middle School offered a brilliant riposte to adults’ mutterings about the shallowness of our young people by hosting 100 teenagers from throughout the district to participate in Epic Day, the third in Colorado. Epic Day is part of a cutting-edge program, the Hero Project, which uses mythology, games, mentors, small-group confessionals and a “time machine” to combat bullying, suicide and drug abuse. Escalante Middle School counselor Chad Novak, who does program analysis and design for the Hero Project, said it was pedagogically based in a social constructivist theory of narratives’ power. “By re-authoring your own history you can take the victim or bully from before and turn them into a hero [by rewriting your] own narrative,” he said." Click the Link to the Left, DURANGO HERALD ARTICLE #2 |
The Hero Project has been covered in the press since 2002. Check out the history, BELOW...
Testimonials
Jud Cunningham, CEO Aloha House, Inc, LCSW
"Loren puts his heart into his work and gives it his full attention. He is innovative and can inspire youth and others to be their best. He is trustworthy, reliable and sincere. He is self directed, highly motivated, has excellent community organization and networking skills as evidenced by the fact that he built and sustained long-term relationships with schools and clients. He is a strong technical writer and won many grants to support Heroes. He understands budgeting, financial statements, and contract administration."
Toby Neal, LCSW, District Clinical Supervisor, Best Selling Author of the Lei Crime Series
"In all the time I’ve known Loren he’s been passionate, visionary, hardworking, and a highly catalytic person who brings change wherever he goes. He’s an able and motivating communicator and lives the values he seeks to teach and model for clients. He’s creative, able to adapt to budgetary and other challenges, and forges new and unique connections between diverse groups of people, able to bring together folks of different races, ages, socioeconomic status and beliefs in a way I’ve seldom seen done in social work."
Dan Snowberger,
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