Master ASIST Trainer, Kenneth Koon, D.Min serves as the lead facilitator for Intervention Institute. Ken was recently honored as the 2016 Trinity Awards Emergency Responder of the Year. His work in intervention and emergency response spans more than two decades and includes service in fire and police departments, military units, hospitals, schools and the community at large. In his assignment as the primary suicide intervention officer for a US Army Reserve Brigade covering 13 states he was able during his tenure to sustain a ZERO suicide rate from 2010 to 2015, before being called to work in a Command covering 40 states with a 575% higher rate of suicide than the public. In 2013 Ken developed the first LOSS (Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors) Team for the state of Georgia and hosted Georgia’s first LOSS Conference in August of 2016 with Frank Campbell, PhD. Participants from five states attended the event. Ken serves as Executive Director of Armed Forces Mission, an organization working in partnership with the Intervention Institute due to the focus on Veteran Suicide. Ken has conducted more than 500 successful suicide interventions and trained more than 7,000 caregivers in various suicide intervention models. Ken serves as the CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) Chaplain for the Peachtree City Police Department; and is a a member of the Georgia Chiefs of Police Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
