2025 School Safety Training Forum

Lori Wood is a Senior Director at Region Ten Community Services Board in Charlottesville, VA. She is a graduate of Emory & Henry College and the University of Virginia and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is a master instructor with the Thomas Jefferson Area CIT program and CIT International, and has supported development and implementation of CIT programs throughout the country. She is trained in hostage negotiation as well as Critical Incident Stress Management and has been a Mental Health First Aid trainer and is a current CIT International trainer. She conducts local, state and national trainings on crisis management, risk assessment, stress management, adolescent crisis intervention, program development, and suicide. She has taught law enforcement in-services, CIT and train the trainer classes for over 15 years.  She continues to provide these type consultation services and support training initiatives across the country. She is one of the “founding mothers” of the Lock and Talk Virginia Suicide Prevention program, as well as a founding member and inaugural Chair of the Suicide Prevention & Awareness Resource Council (SPARC).  Lori received a mentorship award from the Central Virginia Lynchburg CIT program, and was the 2010 recipient of the CIT Mental Health Advocate Award.  In 2017, she received the CIT International Behavioral Healthcare Professional of the Year award, and the 2018 Virginia CIT Behavioral Healthcare Professional of the Year award. She was the 2019 John L Snook Child Advocate Award recipient. Currently, she serves on the Albemarle County School Safety Advisory Committee and on the Board of the Virginia CIT Coalition. She is the proud mother of 4 children.