Zee Andrignis (they/them) is the Mental Health Professional Supervisor for the Seattle Police Department’s Crisis Response Team, a co-responder collaboration with DESC. They are an LICSW and SUDP who has worked in co-response for 7 years. They have a passion for working with LGBTQ+ populations and supporting community service providers in understanding how to work with first responders.

Stephen Betuker, MSW, LCSW, is a trainer for the University of North Carolina, Psychiatry Department’s Institute for Best Practices. Stephen has worked in the field of community mental health for over twenty years. He has successfully helped many individuals who might otherwise be hospitalized due to mental illness to live healthy and fulfilling lives in their community.

Stephen has been practicing CBTp since 2010. He initially received training on CBTp from Dr. David Penn while working on an Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACT) with additional training on CT-R from the Beck Institute and Dr. Stephen Smith. Stephen provides training to ACT teams and other enhanced community mental health teams around the United States on CBTp. He has provided CBTp training to police co-response teams and presented on CBTp at the National Police Co-Responder Conference. Stephen provides on-going clinical supervision around CBTp to both community mental health clinicians and police co-responders. Stephen keeps his direct practice skills fresh by spending his weekends providing CBTp on an inpatient unit at UNC Hospitals.

Amy Bundy is the Chief Criminal Deputy at Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.  She has 17 years in law enforcement to include holding positions in Juvenile and Adult Corrections, Patrol, Detective and Patrol Sergeant.  She previously has served on the Clallam County Drug Court Team, Mental Health Court and is on the Behavioral Health Advisory Board.  Chief Deputy Bundy works closely with community behavioral health professionals including co-response and outreach teams.  She is currently involved in the policy codesign process in collaboration with the University of Washington to improve law enforcement interactions with people with substance use disorder.   She holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Cultural Studies and is in the process of obtaining her Master’s in Education from Eastern Washington University. 

Oriana Cozzolino leads health and wellness efforts with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office, is the Mental Health Provider for the Thurston County Interagency Crisis Negotiation Team, and is a trauma treatment therapist for first responders. She was a faculty member of the International Trauma Treatment Providers for seven years and currently teaches with the South Puget Sound Community College, the Pierce County Center for Dialog & Resolution, and the Dispute Resolution Center of Thurston County. She is also an on-call Medical Social Worker with the Providence Abuse Intervention Center, supporting children who are survivors of violence. For joy, Oriana engages in authentic movement as a 5 Rhythms dancer, teaches yoga, and savors nature through hiking with her husband in Olympia, WA.

Chuck DeSmith is a Deputy Chief with 34 years of experience serving the Greater Renton Community with the fire service. He specializes in supporting the Emergency Medical Service (EMS), Community Health Support, and Organizational Safety and Wellness for the Renton Regional Fire Authority. He is a strong believer in whole person medical care for community members and aspires for the workforce to represent our diverse community through emergency care.

Chuck was born and raised in Renton, and lives in the Fairwood area with his wife and two children.

Jonathon Feit, MBA, MA is Co-Founder & Chief Executive of Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc., the award-winning firm behind the MEDIVIEW ePCR and MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange, which includes interoperable specialty care registries designed to inform Mobile Medical professionals about patients’ end-of-life wishes, children’s special health needs, longitudinal (“over time”) data for chronic care management, substance use intervention, and health and wellness tools.

Jonathon is frequently consulted as an expert on Mobile Medical data and economics, including for Community Paramedicine / Mobile Integrated Health. He is a widely published author—including for several industry trade journals—who has presented at over a dozen state and international conferences, and he holds advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Boston University, and graduate certificates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pepperdine University Law School. In 2021, Jonathon received a Civilian EMS Award from the California EMS Authority.

Kim Hendrickson is the Director of the City of Poulsbo’s Housing, Health and Human Services Department where she works on projects increasing access to healthcare, housing and social services. She is the project manager of Poulsbo Fire CARES, a fire-based co-response program in North Kitsap County, and project coordinator for the Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue CARES Program. Kim helped develop the City of Poulsbo’s police navigator program, which has evolved into behavioral health co-responders working with police throughout Kitsap County. She is the Chair of the Co-Responder Outreach Alliance and a member of Washington State’s 988 crisis response improvement committee. 

Michelle is a clinical psychologist, former crisis clinician, and executive director of the Aspen Hope Center, which provides mobile crisis teams in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. With twenty-three years in the field, Michelle has seen little in the way of training for crisis workers. Michelle founded Frontline Crisis Academy in the summer of 2021. Thus far she has worked with staff from twenty-seven agencies in the State of Washington, providing training in mobile crisis.

Dr. Owens is an Assistant Professor at the Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on the intersection between substance use and the criminal legal system, including research and implementation efforts with law enforcement, jails, and prisons. One current project includes the development and evaluation of statewide training for law enforcement on substance use and substance use disorder. A second project uses policy codesign to develop local solutions to crisis response with law enforcement in Clallam, Thurston, and Yakima Counties. Dr. Owens also is a licensed and practicing psychologist working with people with substance use disorder, and has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2014.

Captain Nicole Picknell has over 30 years Fire Ground experience including wildland and structural firefighting, 25 years as a Paramedic as well as 25 years in the exercise, fitness and nutrition Industry. Nicole has spent the last several years overseeing the Community Resource Paramedic Team at South Snohomish Fire and Rescue Regional Fire Authority (South County Fire). She has a strong interest in providing Firefighters, Police Officers and other first responders opportunities for health and wellness. She supports people in health and nutrition as a personal trainer, exercise instructor, nutrition coach, body builder coach, yoga instructor, Yoga for First Responder instructor and But yoga instructor.

Ariel Werther has worked for the Chandler Police Department since 2008. During his tenure, he previously served as a 911 dispatcher, patrol officer, Crisis Intervention Team officer, Field Training Officer, SWAT Crisis Negotiator, Special Victims Unit detective. He is currently assigned to the Robbery/Homicide Unit. In his off time, he enjoys books, board games, and camping with his wife.