Instructors

Coreena Behnke - Director of the R.A.D. program for Amy St. Laurent Foundation

Coreena Behnke has worked for the Portland Police Department since 1999. She is currently assigned to Community Policing and is the Youth Services Officer for the Department. In 2002 Coreena became involved with the R.A.D. program in Portland and has since become an Instructor Trainer and is currently certified in Basic, Advanced, Keychain, Aerosol, Seniors and RAD for Men. She co-wrote the curriculum for the new TEEN program launched in 2015.  She is currently the director of the R.A.D. program for the Amy St Laurent Foundation.

R.A.D. has become a passion in her life and she teaches in the community both through her Department as well as through Amy’s Foundation throughout the New England Region. She looks forward everyday to expanding the program and educating as many men and women as possible.

Coreena is married and is blessed to have two beautiful children, Harrison and Evangeline.