CBPA Guest Speaker

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Cherie Castellano

Program Director, Cop-2-Cop

Thursday, April 19, 2007, Cherie Castellano came to Dr. Drylie's Criminal Justice Student Association & Alpha Phi Sigma (the National Criminal Justice Honor Society)  to speak about her role as Program Director for Cop-2-Cop and Police Suicide: Understanding the Problem.

About Cherie Castellano

Cherie Castellano, MA, CSW, LPC, AAETS is the Program Director for Cop-2-Cop, the first legislated law enforcement crisis hotline in the United States. She is a faculty member of the NJ Medical School Department of Psychiatry - UMDNJ where she has honed her clinical skills as an expert law enforcement psychological services as a member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.

Ms. Castellano has been recognized internationally as an expert in the field of behavioral healthcare and crisis intervention for Law Enforcement Professionals.  Her experience as a lecturer has included international forums such as Australia and Europe as well as prestigious national forums such as the FBI National Academy.

Her programs and crisis intervention services have been featured in the New York Times as a "model for the nation."  Additional awards include an International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, World Congress Award, for Outstanding Response in a Mass Disaster.

Following September 11, she was assigned to co-ordinate a critical incident responses to over 1,900 first responders in New York and New Jersey.  She formulated a needs assessment and provided direct acute stress management training session to all 1,200 members of the Port Authority Police Department and was subsequently given an award for this work by that Department.