The Marie Maxey Foundation completed the requirements for licensing as a Red Cross Training Provider for Adult and Pediatric First Aid, CPR, and AED certification courses.  We are creating the Heart Program, a CPR AED training initiative that will provide training and enterprise opportunities for Hispanic youth. Our concept is to partner with local non-profits, provide Red Cross-certification training for their constituents, support their efforts to provide CPR AED training and generate opportunities for Hispanic youth to become Red Cross-certified trainers to earn extra income.

We help local organizations establish a sustainable training program that teaches critical life-saving skills while providing income for Hispanic youth as Red Cross-certified instructors. Once the program is established, our role is done, and the organization can continue managing it.  The costs for each organization we work with are $2,000, including $1,000 for CPR AED training equipment, $450 for training a Hispanic youth to be a Red Cross-certified instructor, and $550 in CPR AED training scholarships, which provide up to three classes with six trainees per class. Our first program will start on August 30, 2024, under a Memorandum of Understanding we signed with the Centreville Immigration Forum. See our business concept and the MOU below.
 
Our training programs will memorialize Elena Bathrick, Chris Goughnour, Dilian Deal, and Dulce Deinken, who provided examples of love, compassion, and devotion to family and country. Those learning these life-saving skills will carry on this legacy in their actions to aid those in need.

Elena Bathrick was the wife of David Bathrick, a retired senior foreign service officer, and mother of Dereck and Ryan Bathrick. Elena was devoted to family, God, and community. She cared deeply about people's welfare and the politics that impacted their lives. Elena and David were married for over 45 years. Elena's courage and inner strength were demonstrated in a five-and-one-half-year battle with Stage IV colon cancer that included major operations and countless rounds of chemotherapy with a multiplicity of side effects. When asked about possible personal miracles toward the end of her journey, Elena's response was the epitome of Christian self-sacrifice: "Save those miracles for my children," she said. Elena's perseverance, courage, and devotion serve as an enduring legacy of the strength of Hispanic women. Our training will help others follow in this legacy of self-sacrifice.

Chris Goughnour was part of our U.S. Foreign Service family, the son of Dick and Julia Goughnour, and he tragically passed away from a heart attack on December 15, 2018. Chris Goughnour was born in Brazil and lived with his U.S. foreign service family in several countries prior to graduating from high school and moving to the United States. As a dual U.S.-Brazilian citizen, Chris cherished his international background, but also took enormous pride in serving the United States in both the U.S. Navy --and after college-- as a highly decorated U.S. Army Ranger stationed in Afghanistan.In 2018, Chris suffered a heart attack while pursuing one of his greatest passions, deep-water diving. His memory lives on in his parents, wife, two children, brothers, and comrades in arms. We believe his memory and legacy will live on in those who receive this Red Cross-certified CPR and AED training.

Dilian Deal was the wife of Michael Deal, a Retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, and the mother of Michael, Derick, and Andrew. She was an artist who could capture a moment in her watercolors that told how our frantic activities melt away in time, but the memory of a place or person stays with us. Dilian was a mother, wife and the quintessential Foreign Service spouse. As the foundation of a family serving their country in a distant land, she provided the care and nurturing needed for everyone to thrive. Our training program honors her legacy and dreams of a better future.
 
Dulce Deinken was Peter Deinken's wife, a Retired Foreign Service officer. Dulce is remembered as an energetic, upbeat, and caring person. Her work life in numerous U.S. Embassies opened doors to interact with diplomatic and local communities. She immersed herself in local cultural explorations and forged lifelong friendships everywhere. Her love and empathy for others were freely shared from an early age. Dulce endured a rough battle with pancreatic cancer, and as she had helped the sick and the troubled, she was, in turn, the recipient of love and support from her international "tribe” of friends.” This training honors that legacy.

Our first Adult CPR & AED training was at the South County Church office in Lorton, Virginia in early May 2024.  We also conducted our first training in Spanish for Latino youth in mid-May 2024.  We coordinated with another foundation -- the Compress and Shock Foundation -- to support CPR - Compression-Only training at the Lorton Community Center Library, Lorton, Virginia, on June 1, 2024. Our largest Spanish language training so far was done at the Workforce Innovation and Skills Hub (WISH) Center in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 6, 2024. 

We look forward to conducting more English and Spanish-language CPR and AED training sessions. For more information, please contact Michael Maxey at michael@maxeys.org. 

Also, please consider donating to the Heart Program.  Any amount can help, but $75 can provide a scholarship to a Latino youth that provides them with a Red Cross CPR AED training certificate valid for two years; $100 can help finance Red Cross-certified instructor training for a Latino youth who can then teach classes and earn income; $500 can provide the full cost of instructor training; $1,000 can provide training equipment (mannequins, AED trainer, etc.) for a CPR AED training partnership with local organizations.  We need $10,000 over the next six months to recruit, train, and equip five Hispanic youth to become health entrepreneurs and conduct CPR AED to earn part-time income as they pursue their dream of a healthcare career.