Chiron Center Incorporated

Programs: Education and outreach: in 2014 chiron nearly doubled our number of education and outreach hours of service as compared to previous years, providing over 300 hours of training, seminars, and workshops to first responders from all around the country representing all branches of the military, law enforcement, fire/ems, communications/dispatch, nurses, chaplains, social services personnel, as well as civilian community crisis response team volunteers. Our presentations continue to be extremely well received with over 90% of our participants stating that chirons education and outreach programs exceed their expectations.

clinical programs: in 2014 chirons clinical programs division continued to provide over 500 hours of direct clinical service to over 1,000 persons impacted by trauma and serious loss. Incidents included: homicide, suicide, fatal traffic collisions, mass casualty incidents, child deaths, sexual assaults, domestic/family violence, active and line of duty deaths, as well as other accidental/traumatic deaths.

research and development: in 2014 chiron successfully entered our third year of development, implementation, and evaluation of our program addressing the behavioral health, wellness, and resilience of the continuum of public health and safety personnel involved in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of child sexual exploitation via our pilot program with the southern oregon high-tech crimes task force. This task force is comprised of members from the fbi, department of homeland security, the jackson county district attorneys office, and several law enforcement detectives from local agencies collaborating together to provide the digital forensic evidence collection and analysis to investigate and prosecute child sexual exploitation cases throughout the southern oregon region. When first introduced to the concept of resilience training three years ago, these highly accomplished law enforcement veterans were extremely wary and skeptical to say the least. Initially chiron personnel were only invited on a quarterly basis to provide training. However, due to the highly successful peer-based, integrated approach of these workshops, within six months chiron was not only asked to formally facilitate on-going monthly trainings, but in addition chiron personnel have been attending the task forces weekly briefings by invitation, and are considered by the members to be one of their essential task force partners. So much so that when asked during a recent evaluation, task force members stated that they cannot imagine not having weekly and monthly trainings to support and better empower their relentless undertaking to end child sexual exploitation and they are openly advocating for this type of support for all their fellow public health and safety professionals. This model of actively embedding a behavioral health and wellness professionals within a public safety agency has subsequently been replicated through chirons second pilot program providing weekly contact along with monthly trainings to the personnel of a municipal police department, furthering chirons mission of expanding the culture of acceptance regarding behavioral health and resilience hardiness as primary values and fully integrated components within the professional and personal lives of those who place themselves in harms way in service of others. Entering its second year, this project addressing all ranks, all levels of experience, and all types of public safety related issues has also been tremendously successful, offering a wide variety of opportunities for research and development towards chirons ultimate goal of developing, implementing, and evaluating the most effective, innovative, career and life-saving peer-based, integrative approaches to behavioral health, wellness, and resilience with the hopes that these resources may then be replicated to best serve public health and safety collaboratives nationwide.