INSIGHT PUBLIC SAFETY & FORENSIC CONSULTING - Key Persons

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• Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker

Catherina Kelly is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker who has spent her 30-year career working in community mental health, elder care, and with adults with severe mental illness. She provided comprehensive assessments to determine need and assess risk, provided individual therapy, group therapy, and crisis intervention. During that time, she had the opportunity to work with various first responder agencies and came to recognize the challenges related to the stress and trauma of the job itself, and how that effects both emotional and physical health of not only the first responder, but of the family as well.

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• Clinic Psychologist, Founder

Dr. Jennifer Prohaska graduated with her Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology in 2013 from the University of Kansas and completed her residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center specializing in neuro-rehabilitation psychology, where she also specialized in traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other traumatic injuries that had life-altering permanent consequences. Dr. Prohaska is a nationally sought-after public speaker for numerous law enforcement and public safety agencies, presenting on such topics as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, Chronic and Cumulative Stress, Resiliency, and various Commander Leadership courses focusing on how mental health impacts leadership. She has been a featured speaker for the FBI National Academy Associates- Kansas/Western Missouri Chapter, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, MidAmerican Regional Council, and Central States Law Enforcement Executives seminars. She led the development, training, implementation, and maintenance of over two dozen national peer support teams. And she has consulted for nearly 50 peer support teams as well. She has also been involved in critical incident response education and planning for both the public and private sectors. Dr. Prohaska's specialty is in Officer Involved Shootings and other critical incidents that fall outside of the scope of normal daily first-responder activities. She is Force Science Certified and has sub-specialty training working with individuals with major medical repercussions from their duties, particularly Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury.

Mallory Super is an actively working paramedic/firefighter. She began her first responder career as a cadet at age 22. She eventually joined the fire department where she served as a frontline paramedic/firefighter for 10 years before transitioning to instructing at their internal fire academy; she has been an instructor there for the past 5 years. Mallory has first-hand experience and understanding of the unique and complex stressors that members of the first responder community face daily. Additionally, Mallory serves as the Peer Support Coordinator for her department's peer support team and is a regional coordinator for the state of Kansas.