Heroes - Active Bystandership Training
Meet The Co-Founders
Joel A. Dvoskin
Original Co-Founder, now Advisory Board Member
For more than a decade, Joel Dvoskin managed the forensic and correctional mental health systems for the State of New York, and later served as New York’s Acting Commissioner of Mental Health. He is the former Chair of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Behavioral Health for the State of Nevada. He is former President of two Divisions of the American Psychological Association (18 and 41) and served on the APA Policy Task Force on Reducing Gun Violence, and on the APA Blue Ribbon Commission on Ethical Processes.
He has provided consultation and expert testimony to forensic mental health, law enforcement, and correctional systems in more than 40 states, and has provided consultation to a wide array of organizations, including the U.S. Secret Service, the National Basketball Association (NBA), the NBA Players Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and numerous corporations, organizations, and government agencies across the US and Canada.
He previously taught at the University of Arizona Law School, and currently teaches at the U. of A. Medical School.
Karen Collins Rice
Co-Founder
Karen Collins Rice, M.S. is the co-founder of Heroes Active Bystandership Training, LLC. With over 30 years of experience in organizational development, curriculum design, and leadership development, she has played a pivotal role in shaping effective, values-driven approaches to public safety leadership.
Karen served as the curriculum designer for Georgetown Law’s Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project, and is the Chief Program Architect of Trust-Centered Leadership—an innovative police leadership development program focused on cultivating emotional intelligence, effective communication, and the ability to foster healthy organizational cultures. She has facilitated the program for hundreds of police leaders at all levels across the country.
Karen has also partnered with organizations such as the National Policing Institute and the Behind the Badge Foundation, guiding them through strategic planning processes designed to integrate values, vision, and strategic goals into day-to-day operations through sustainable, internally driven frameworks. She is a member of the teaching faculty in the California Chiefs of Police Executive Leadership Program, in the University of Virginia’s National Criminal Justice Command College, and a Fellow of the Future Policing Institute.
Karen holds a Master’s Degree from Florida State University in Instructional Systems Design and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida.
Abigail S. Tucker
Co-Founder
Abigail S. Tucker, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist in Denver Colorado. In her current role as trainer, consultant and in private practice she works directly with emergency responders, veterans, victims of crime, criminal and juvenile justice entities and behavioral health providers. Dr. Tucker serves as Adjunct Faculty at Colorado State University Global in their Emergency Responder and Military Psychology Program and at her alma mater Nova Southeastern University in their College of Psychology and for the Fischer College of Education and Criminal Justice. Abigail is a certified instructor for Adult & Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and for the Public Safety module of Adult MHFA, and is a proud national training instructor for the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project.
Abigail is one of three co-founders of Heroes Active Bystandership Training, LLC.
