~ About Our Local TIP Staff ~
Tommy Carter
Crisis Team Manager
Santa Rosa County, Florida
Tommy is the Crisis Team Director of the Trauma Intervention Program of Escambia & Santa Rosa Counties. Tommy has been with Trauma Intervention for four years, beginning as a volunteer in March 2002 and began his current position as Crisis Team Director of Escambia & Santa Rosa County in December 2004. 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.
Laurie Ford
Crisis Team Manager
Santa Rosa County, Florida
Laurie Ford had been appointed the new Crisis Team Manager of the Trauma Intervention Program in Santa Rosa County, Florida. She has been with the program for a year after retiring as the manager of Gulf Breeze Behavioral Health for eight years and now volunteers with the Good Samaritan Clinic in the Patient Assistance Program. At home, she presently cares for her children’s grandparents, two dogs, two birds and a vegetable garden. She has a son and granddaughter in San Diego and two sons and two granddaughters in Northwest Florida.
Buzz Morley
Crisis Team Manager,
Escambia County , Florida
Buzz Morley completed TIP Academy in June 2007, and became a scene coordinator in mid- 2008. He was appointed Crisis Team Manager for Escambia County, Florida in March of 2009. Buzz has worked for small companies and large corporations--spending 30 years as a representative for independent manufacturers in the marine industry.
Since retirement in 1998, Buzz served eight years as a volunteer at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida as well as serving as a member on the Board of Directors at the Lillian Community Club and the Lillian Volunteer Fire Department.
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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