Meet Safe Call Now® Peer Advocate Coordinator-Ronald Jones

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Ronald Jones is the Peer Advocate Coordinator for Safe Call Now®. Ron has over 25 years' combined emergency medical services and law enforcement experience. Ron understands the unique culture of first responders and stressors of the job. Ron retired from the West Virginia State Police in 1999 resulting from a line of duty related illness. After the attacks on 9-11, Ron served in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. He then joined the ranks of the newly established Department of Homeland Security as a founding member and ultimately awarded the Transportation 9-11 ribbon for having contributed to the recovery efforts after the terrorist attacks.

Ron was finally able to fulfill his goal of completing his higher education, which had begun many years before. Ron finished his undergraduate work earning a Regents Bachelor of Arts degree from Marshall University in WV and completed a Masters in Biblical Counseling through Therapon University, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Ron is now an ordained independent minister and master chaplain who holds many certifications in trauma and critical incident stress management and is recognized as an expert and member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress in collaboration with the National Center for Crisis Management number 5541.

As a certified instructor for the American Red Cross, QPR Institute, Homeland Crisis Training Institute and International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Ron is altogeher qualified to share lifesaving information with others. Ron has spent countless hours as a parish minister, chaplain, guardian ad litem and volunteer providing counsel to first responders, active duty military personnel and veterans, the homeless, crime victims and families of each. Ron has answered crisis lines for the military and first responders having logged hundreds of hours in crisis intervention and directed countless persons to needed resources. He now enjoys spending time with his spouse, children and three grandchildren.  

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