Cindy Wynn

Cindy Wynn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Missouri. She is an adjunct professor at St. Charles Community College where she teaches adolescent psychology and at Lindenwood University where she teaches in the graduate counselor education program.

She retired from the City of St. Charles School District in 2003 after 31 years as a teacher, middle and high school counselor and the district-wide Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Grant Coordinator. Cindy has been involved in peer helping since the first National Association of Peer Programs (NAPP) (then National Peer Helpers Association) Conference was held in St. Charles, MO in 1987. She developed the first peer helping program at the middle school level and co-taught the class until she moved to the high school where she helped with the high school program. As the Drug Free Grant coordinator, she oversaw the development of the district wide peer helping program.

Cindy was a board member for NAPP for eight years serving as Secretary. She was also President of Missouri Peer Helpers Association, co-editor of the MPHA newsletter and served on the NAPP Professional Development Committee. Recently she has worked with the peer helping sponsors in a local school district to write a district-wide peer helping curriculum based on the NAPP Standards and Ethics.