Our Leadership Team
Dennis J. Carradin, Jr.
Dennis Carradin is a Licensed Professional Counselor of Mental Health, a Nationally Certified Counselor, a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, and a Diplomate for the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.
Currently, he is the Executive Director of New Perspectives, Inc., a private counseling agency in Delaware, and has served on the faculty of Penn State University, Brandywine Campus, for 15 years. He is a Vice President and Principal Consultant for SSC Consulting. Dennis is a trained trainer for Crisis Care Network and serves on three international trauma firms.
Dennis is a former Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician and a former Emergency Medical Technician with the state of Delaware. He is a former volunteer Fire Fighter and serves as a LAST member for the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation in conjunction with the National Fire Academy. He is the clinical director and team coordinator of the New Castle County CISM team and serves as the State CISM Chairman for the Delaware Volunteer Fireman's Association. Dennis is the President elect and an active member of the Wilmington West Rotary Club. He is also listed in the National Center for Crisis Management’s directory of expert witnesses and premiere speakers bureau.
He has attended Millersville University, Temple University and Walden University. Dennis has conducted numerous debriefings in domestic as well as international disasters, shootings, bombings, bank robberies, corporate incidents, school disasters, and Fire, EMS, Police tragedies. He has responded to several national disasters including, but not limited to, the attacks on the WTC in NYC, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings, The Boston Marathon Bombings, the Navy Yard shootings, the Pulse Nightclub shootings, and the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
Lyn Feldbaumer
Lyn Feldbaumer is a Community Relations Liaison for MeadowWood Behavioral Health Systems in New Castle, Delaware. She has worked in the Mental Health field for over 11 years. First serving as a Drug and Alcohol counselor where she earned her Certified Associate Addiction certification. Presently Lyn works in the Marketing Department of the hospital providing training and business development. She is a past Board Member of New Directions, an organization providing education and support to those suffering with mental illnesses. Also, as a past Vice President of Military and Community Partners, Lyn worked closely with members of the Armed Forces and their families who encountered difficult times due to multiple deployments. Lyn has been a member of the Critical Incident Stress Management team for 8 years and also serves as a Board Member of the Trauma Survivors Foundation. Lyn is very proud of the work she does with these various groups helping all to attain a better quality of life.
Harold Bozeman
Harold Bozeman is a 24 year veteran of the Wilmington Police Department since where he holds the rank of Lieutenant and serves as a Platoon Commander in Uniformed Services. He is the Commander of the Wilmington Police Critical Incident Stress Management Team and its Crisis Intervention Team and is a Team Leader on the Crisis Management / Hostage Negotiations Team. He serves as the New Castle County Law Enforcement Coordinator and a Team Leader for Delaware CISM.
In March 2013, He was selected to serve as the team and training coordinator for the Wilmington PD Crisis Intervention Team, which now has 44 trained members. After completing his initial CIT training he was invited to sit on the Advisory Board at NAMI DE and the State of Delaware CIT training committee.
Harold is a Council of Police Training Certified Police Instructor and has been developing and presenting various curricula, to include CISM, weapons of mass destruction response, hostage negotiations, and incident response to terrorist bombings for the Wilmington Police Academy since 2005. He is an instructor for the Office of Domestic Preparedness, certified through the New Mexico Institute for Science and Technology and Louisiana State University, to present their material for Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings, Law Enforcement Protective Measures, Law Enforcement Response to WMD Incidents, and Prevention and Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents.
Harold attended the Penn State Police Officer Supervisor Initial Training and the FBI's Law Enforcement Executive Development Academy for Police Supervisors as well as their Command Leadership School. He has been on the FOP Lodge #1 board of directors since August 2008 and served as the local President from October 2013 through October 2019.
Aja Beech
Aja Beech is an internationally published author with over a decade of experience in organization development, communications, and marketing. Her experience includes creating written materials for print and online distribution, outreach to diverse communities, staff and volunteer management, event planning and promotion, and fundraising. Her journalism and op-eds have appeared at: Al Día News, The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, PennLive, and WHYY. Beech is a poet and her work in this genre appears at: The 5-2, Poems on Crime, Apiary Magazine, Certain Circuits, Incandescent Mind, Small Portions Journal, and Twelve Winters Press. She has served as a sub-Committee Member at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) and as a Board Member at Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. In 2012, she was awarded a Leeway Art and Change Grant and in 2011, she was named a Creative Connector in Philadelphia.
Beech is a graduate of Temple University, with a BA in History, trained in Victim Advocacy, certified in Mental Health First Aid for adults and youth. Since the murder of her cousin in 2001, in a domestic violence incident, she has volunteered in victims services. As part of the Resilient Voices Speakers Bureau through the Office of the Victim Advocate at the Pennsylvania Office for Victims of Crime, she speaks throughout the state about surviving trauma. As an advocate for victims of crime, she has stressed the importance of meeting the needs of those victims and the needs of the first responders that assist victims every day.