Renelle Grubbs is a licensed clinical social worker, specializing in program development, and training of behavioral health, school, fire, police, medical, faith based and emergency management in the areas of psychological first aid and crisis intervention. She is presently Executive Director of the Kentucky Community Crisis Response Board (KCCRB). The board was created by the General Assembly in 1996 and administratively attached to Military Affairs. Ms. Grubbs and her staff recruit, provide training programs, and mobilize rapid crisis intervention teams that provide services statewide. The KCCRB has 350 trained team members statewide including two law enforcement teams and 3 regional school teams. As Kentucky’s Disaster Mental Health Coordinator she also procures and administers FEMA Immediate and Regular Services crisis counseling grants for the Commonwealth. She was recognized in April of 1998 for her outstanding contributions in Critical Incident Stress Management by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation and received an Award of Merit in October 1996 from the Jefferson County Fire Chiefs Association and the Jefferson County Fire Fighters Association for, Outstanding Professional Assistance. Ms. Grubbs is a member of: the Academy of Certified Social Workers, National Association of Social Workers, The Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists and the International Critical Incident Foundation as a recognized trainer.
As executive director she oversees the recruitment, training, and maintenance of trained volunteers who have provided over 2,000 community responses including the shootings at Health High School in 1997 and 14 Presidential-Declared Disasters. She is a national and international trainer with recent experience in Singapore training medical and disaster response personnel for the Ministry of Health and the Ten Tock Seng Hospital.
Ms. Grubbs is a national and international presenter and trainer in crisis response and the "Psychosocial Impact of Disasters & Catastrohpic Events" course.
She collaborated with the Hope Foundation and participated in their national live satellite broadcast, Lessons Learned: Breaking the Cycle of Violence II, Part 3: “Containing Crisis: Managing School and Community Emergencies”, November 30, 1999.
In February 2000, in collaboration with Kentucky Center for School Safety, she participated in a statewide videoconference, In the Aftermath: Managing and recovering from School and Community Crisis.
The KCCRB’s School Initiative is cited in FEMA’s January 2000 Volume IV, Partnerships in Preparedness: A Compendium of Exemplary Practices in Emergency Management.
Ms. Grubbs is a contributor to: Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide, Implementing Early Warning, Timely Response, April 21, 2000.
In 2001, in collaboration with Kentucky Center for School Safety, she served as project manager for Kentucky’s School Centered Emergency Management Guide and statewide district training.
In 2002 and 2003 she represented Kentucky at SAMHSA’s National Summits on State Planning and Preparedness for Terrorism.
In 2003 to present, she serves as project manager in collaboration with Diane Myers, RN, MSN, CTS, B.C.E.T.S., in the development and implementation of a multi-agency statewide train-the-trainer program entitled the Psychosocial Imapct of Disasters & Catastrohic Events funded by DPH/ASPR Preparedness & Response.