Special Thanks

Navy Commander Charles “Keith” Springle as Director of the Camp Lejeune Community Counseling Center worked closely with CSSP and presented our “Painting a Moving Train: Preparing Community Providers to Serve Returning Warriors” training.  Keith was killed by a Marine at military counseling clinic in Bagdad Iraq in 2009.

Lieutenant Commander Erin M. Simmons, PhD as Clinical Psychologist former Back on Track Supervisor Caregiver Occupational Stress Team Leader, Mental Health Clinic Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune and author of the CSSP training on “Issues of Women Returning from Combat”.

SSG’s Robert and Holly Mullis for their incredible “Boots on the Ground” presentation at countless on-site trainings and online training courses.

Camp Lejeune Community Counseling Center and its former Directors and Staff

Colonel (RET) David Sutherland while serving as Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Warrior and Family Support

Thu-Mai Christian

Dr Jessica Meed

Colonel Peter Bickel, OD for his incredible efforts in support of the on-line training and mapping efforts.

Admiral Michael Mullen as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) unsuccessfully advocated for additional funding for CSSP, promoted CSSPs participation at the national level, and used our deployment demographic maps in support of his community engagement efforts.

General Martin Dempsey as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) unsuccessfully advocated for additional funding for CSSP and continued to promote CSSPs participation at the national level with Joining Forces and other efforts.

Former US Representative for North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District, David E. Price and the North Carolina Congressional Delegation who championed our cause and helped secure our initial funding.

Clinton Global Initiative which hosted an annual meeting focused on Veterans and connected CSSP with a number of leading and developing Veteran organizations.

White House Joining Forces.  CSSP was involved at the earliest stages as the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) helped this Obama Administration era effort get organized.

NC Governor’s Focus on Service Members, Veterans and their Families now known as the NC Governor’s Working Group on Service Members, Veterans and their Families with hundreds of participants from scores of agencies and programs (www.ncgwg.org).

Flo Stein, MPH, Chief, Community Policy Management Section North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (DMHDDSAS); Co-Founder of the NC Governor’s Focus on Service Members, Veterans, and their Families.

Wei Li Fang, PhD, Director for Research and Evaluation Governor’s Institute on Substance Abuse; Co-Founder of the NC Governor’s Focus on Service Members, Veterans, and their Families.

David Amos as Field Optimization Director Mid-Atlantic Health Net Federal Services and Brian W. Corlett as TRICARE Service Center Manager Health Net Federal Services helped CSSP increase the number of behavioral health providers paneled with TRICARE

Gary L. Bowen, PhD, MSW as Kenan Distinguished Professor School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lead Scientist Jordan Institute Group for Military Members, Veterans, and Their Families

Christie Silbajoris, MSLS, AHIP as Director, NC Health Info Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tommy Norman and the Charlotte Bridge Home, now Veterans Bridge Home (https://veteransbridgehome.org)

North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) and in particular previous TAGs including MG William Ingram Jr and MG Gregory Lusk

Stephanie Nissen, LMHC, LPC as State Director, Behavioral Health Programs, NCNG

Andrew Jackson CSM (retired) as Transition Assistance Advisor North Carolina National Guard

The Military Child Education Coalition (on their Living in the New Normal program in North Carolina)

Give an Hour and Community Blueprint (two programs developed by Barbara Van Dahlen, Ph.D.) Barbara launched Community Blueprint in NC because of our work here and a component of it continues to operate in Eastern NC)

Robin Hurley, MD, FANPA, Associate Chief of Staff, Research and Education, Salisbury Veterans Administration Medical Center, Associate Director of Education, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 6 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

David P. Cistola, MD, PhD as Principal Investigator Operation Re-entry North Carolina Associate Dean for Research Professor, College of Allied Health Sciences & Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University

Michael Lancaster, MD as Medical Director Behavioral Health Services, North Carolina Community Care Networks, Inc.

Dr Jeffrey Sonis, MD