Sergeant Chris Scallon retired as a 24+year veteran with the Norfolk Police Department and holds a Masters in Psychology, BS in Criminal Justice, and certified in Critical Incident Stress Management from the University of Maryland BC Emergency Health Services.

Sgt. Scallon is the current Veteran’s Administration Client Services Representative for Lakeview Health, the Founder of Survival Mindset Training and Consulting, Co-Founder of Trauma Behind the Badge. Chris also provides direct mental health and/or substance abuse services, in addition to connecting first responders, veterans, and their families to resources. He is the current Chair of Peer Response for the National Consortium for the Prevention of Law Enforcement Suicide and consultant/responder for the Department of Justice Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP); providing services following mass terror events. As a Fellow with Northeastern University, Chris worked with the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and IACP to create the Vicarious Trauma Toolkit. He was the founder, and first Director, of the Norfolk Police Department’s Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), Peer Support Unit, and Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Co-Coordinator for the Norfolk Police Department.

Sgt. Scallon is a peer and current board member of Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program (VALEAP), a certified peer with the West Coast Post Trauma Retreat/First Responder Support Network. Former Director of Public Safety Support for Chateau Recovery, Chris is a U.S. Navy Veteran, served as a Medic, Fireman, and line officer in the Port Washington, NY Fire Department. Chris was directly involved in multiple traumatic incidents within the fire, military, and police agencies (i.e., multiple shootings/Active Shooter-Mass Causality responses, to include 9/11 WTC, Airplane crashes) and is intimately familiar with trauma and the consequences of exposure.