~ About Our Local TIP Staff ~
Tommy Carter
Executive Director
Trauma Intervention Program of NW Florida
Tommy is the Executive Director of Trauma Intervention Program of NW Florida which includes Escambia, Santa Rosa, and Okaloosa Counties. Tommy has been with TIP for nine years, beginning as a volunteer in March 2002 and began his current position as Executive Director in March of 2009. He was formerly the district manager for Big "B" Drugs in the Bay Area, and was employed by Big "B" for almost twenty years.
Tommy is married to Katherine Carter, who is also a TIP volunteer. Together, they own Tybee's Professional Cleaning Service in Gulf Breeze.
Tommy has three grown sons and two granddaughters. They also have fourteen dogs and a cat!
Laurie Ford
Crisis Team Manager
Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, Florida
Laurie Ford had been a volunteer with TIP for four years and appointed the new Crisis Team Manager of the Trauma Intervention Program in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, Florida two years ago. She retired as manager of Gulf Breeze Behavioral Health after eight years and was a volunteer with the Good Samaritan Clinic in the Patient Assistance Program for two years. She is the mother of three sons--one is a U.S. Marine Major in San Diego, and two sons living in Northwest Florida. She also has three granddaughters. Her good buddy is her Labradoodle, Sandi.
Glenda Newman
Tri-County Dispatch Coordinator
Scene Coordinator & Dispatcher,
Okaloosa County, Florida
Glenda Newman is the Tri-County Dispatch Coordinator, Scene Coordinator, full-time Dispatcher, and has been a TIP Volunteer since 2005. Before becoming involved with TIP, she was a Microphotographer and was medically retired in 1988. Glenda stays quite busy these days as a TIP volunteer and also as a USDA volunteer. She is in charge of her Senior Citizens Program at church and is the Wednesday night Bible Study Secretary. She has a very large family and boasts of over 80 nieces and nephews!
Glenda was born and raised in Crestview, Florida and has three brothers and two sisters who attend New Beginnings Baptist Church. She loves God and life very much. Glenda has realized the TIP organization helps her appreciate what she has every day--especially after witnessing the many acts of lonely, desperate people that are simply trying to cope with their problems. Glenda says as a member of TIP, you will be humbled, amazed, and blessed, just as she is.
Brenda Cadenhead
Crisis Team Manager,
Okaloosa County, Florida
Brenda Cadenhead has recently been promoted to the Trauma Intervention Program (TIP)
Crisis Team Manager for Okaloosa County, Florida. She has been active with TIP for five
years and has been trained as a scene coordinator and volunteers as a part-time TIP
dispatcher.
Brenda worked as the business accounting manager for a local automobile dealership for
almost 20 years before being able to stay at home. She enjoys spending time with her
family and has one daughter, one stepson, and two stepdaughters--who have blessed her
with six grandchildren.
TIP is a passion for Brenda. As a volunteer, she feels helping someone in their time of loss
and despair is a way for her to give back to the community. She has also learned through
her involvement with TIP that helping a person or family member during their time of need
allows emergency personnel to direct their focus on the crisis situation at hand.
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