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Cultivating Resilience To Prevent Harmful Behaviors: A Discussion With Dr. Tara Fox, Casey Olson and Antonio Best
Date: March 21, 2023
Times: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. ET
Location: http://www.facebook.com/armyresilience
Resilience is more than pushing through adversity. Resilience means you are able to manage the daily stressors of life in a positive way. It prepares you to cope with adversity, adapt to change and thrive under new conditions. Resilience also helps units build a culture of trust. Join Dr. Fox, Casey Olson and Antonio Best as they discuss how you can cultivate resilience and build unit cohesion, and how that protects against harmful behaviors.
To join the event, go to the Army Resilience Directorate Facebook page at 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. ET on March 21. Follow ARD on Facebook to receive notifications for live events.
You do not need a Facebook account to view the broadcast.
About the speakers:
Dr. Tara Fox, Ph.D., LPC-S
Dr. Tara Fox is an assistant professor, program coordinator and graduate coordinator in the Clinical Mental Health graduate program at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. She is also a licensed professional counselor supervisor (LPC-S). She received her Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from Texas Tech University.
Dr. Fox has presented and published on topics including bereavement, boundaries, burnout, compassion fatigue, counselor identity, integrated behavioral health care, integrated health care, mindfulness, online learning, rural counseling, secondhand depression, self-reflection and telehealth counseling services. She is passionate about mental, physical and emotional wellness.
Casey J. Olson
Casey J. Olson hails from Minnetonka, Minnesota, and has dedicated the last 10 years to suicide prevention and resilience advancement across the U.S. DOD. She currently serves as the Suicide Prevention, Substance Abuse Prevention, Resilience and Performance Enhancement Chief of Training for the U.S. Army and is responsible for training over 1 million U.S. Army active-duty, National Guard and Reserve Soldiers. Olson helped expand a statewide Veteran peer support initiative (Vet2Vet) into a national effort (Vets4Warriors), which now serves over 325,000 contacts in 50 states. She also collaborated with the Department of Health and Human Services and Congress to get the suicide prevention considerations of Public Law 112-81 (2012 National Defense Authorization Act) passed into law. She led an effort to develop Engage, a novel 2.5-hour block of instruction based on prosocial behavior research that enhances awareness and decision-making. Since making the training available across the force, it has been administered to over 30,000 Soldiers and incorporated into the U.S. Army Basic Leader Course (BLC). She represented the Army Resilience Program in Jordan on two occasions and was responsible for evaluating and optimizing the Jordanian resilience effort.
As per her personal pursuits, Olson enjoys interacting with new cultures and geographies. She is proficient in German and has traveled to 30 countries and has aspirations to visit all countries over the course of her life. She summited Mount Kosciuszko, the highest peak on the Australian continent, in 2019. Olson has volunteered with the Lost Dog Society, Alzheimer’s Association and Habitat for Humanity. For recreation, she routinely enjoys cycling, piano and tennis. Olson currently resides in Park City, Utah, with her husband.
Antonio (Tony) Best
Mr. Best is a retired Army Master Sgt. with 22 years of active-duty service. He earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Troy State University in 2002, and an education specialist degree in curriculum development from Liberty University in 2012.
After retiring from the Army, he first worked for a 1.3 million square foot distribution center overseeing day-to-day operations and then regional operations for eight distribution centers. He also worked as a university adjunct faculty member. He taught Introduction to and Foundations of Research (RES/110/320), Critical Thinking (PHL/458) and other courses before joining Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 2009 as a training specialist.
Mr. Best is currently a civilian training specialist responsible for conducting all aspects of training, training development and training support. He supports research studies and projects with onsite and remote coordination. He is the TRADOC and PME SME for coordination of TRADOC and PME R2-related projects and studies. Mr. Best also serves as domain administrator for the Army Resilience Directorate (ARD) Training Development Capability (TDC) Proponent data base account. TDC houses lesson plans for Army training institutions.
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