Dr. Stacie Kalvels is a clinical psychologist with the Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. She currently serves as a Clinical Care Coordinator with the Veterans Crisis Line and is on special assignment with the Suicide Prevention Program. She began her VA career in the Northern Indiana Healthcare System as the Local Recovery Coordinator, Chronic Inpatient Unit Psychologist and Disruptive Behavior Committee Chair where she expanded and improved the use of patient-driven care and recovery-oriented services to Veterans. Prior to joining the VA, she served as a federal law enforcement officer in multiple roles for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) including staff psychologist, Specialty Program Psychologist and Drug Abuse Program Coordinator. Additionally, she was a national Crisis Support Team (CST) trainer, the Southeast Regional CST psychologist, and the local CST Team Leader where her main role was offering support services to staff and their families and training staff on mental health wellbeing. Dr. Kalvels has developed significant expertise in crisis support, suicide prevention in law enforcement, law enforcement mental health, breaking the silence and stigma in law enforcement and improving law enforcement outcomes and training in Veteran mental health needs. She has received multiple awards for her contributions including a Special Act Award for contributions made to the development of a BOP program designed to reduce inmate suicide risk and self-harm which resulted in the Director's Award. Dr. Kalvels is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She received her bachelor's degree from Western Washington University, and her master's and doctorate degrees from Pacific University School of Professional Psychology. She completed her doctoral internship at the Metropolitan Detention Center - Los Angeles.