Deceitful Laurie Flynn: TeenScreen Director

You'll be amazed at how unprofessional TeenScreen directors and key players act while not being watched. Case in point, Ms. Laurie Flynn, TeenScreen Director. An email by Laurie Flynn was obtained and made public. See how Ms. Laurie Flynn feels about the children, and the TeenScreen programs manupulative ways. Flynn, well connected to pharmaceutical companies through NAMI, now works diligently through the media and her connections in Washington, DC, to expand TeenScreen using every possible avenue. One of the tactics, which was contrived by one of TeenScreen’s PR firms, is to keep track of teen suicides all over the country and then write letters to the editors of those local newspapers to market TeenScreen and take advantage of vulnerable communities in mourning. Flynn has “authored” most of those letters and comes across as very professional and caring in these letters. However, this is how she really talks with fellow marketing allies.

Laurie Flynn's Email -
“I'm looking for a horse to ride in here! ... I need to get some kids screened—if the schools are a road block we are interested in community organizations. Next week we are talking with the Boys and Girls Club in Pinellas. ...I also think we should see if local agencies or businesses could be engaged in ‘community screenings.’ Issue here is assuring the link to follow-up…”

—Laurie Flynn, from an email to Jim McDonough