Olivia is the Behavioral Health Specialist and lead on suicide prevention training programs at AgriSafe. She received her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health & Guidance in 2022. Olivia provides QPR and CALM trainings that focus on the unique stressors that those in agriculture experience.

In addition to her role at AgriSafe, Olivia is a licensed professional counselor (provisional). She works in clinical private practice with adolescents, couples, and adults. Olivia specializes in youth, couples counseling, trauma, anxiety, and depression. She also has experience working with young adults with autism and Down syndrome. Her personal interests include reading, figure skating, and embroidering on the weekends.

Shaped by Linda’s experience as a Registered Nurse working in rural communities as well as her proprietorship of a three generational Nebraska family farm, Linda naturally connects as an advocate and educator with agriculture producers and health care professionals.  As the Community Health Director of the AgriSafe Network, she is responsible for curriculum design and outreach for the Veteran Farmer program, Total Farmer Health Coach program, and Women’s health. Her work is promoted on a state, regional and national level through webinars, onsite presentations, publications as well as user-friendly resources. Her passion to support the total farmer health concept drives her to act as a liaison between research and practice.

Linda has a diverse background in acute care nursing, intensive care, pediatrics, home health care, and  rural primary care clinics. She is an AgriSafe Nurse Scholar, and a Nebraska LEAD fellow. She belongs to the American Nurses Association, Rural Nurses Organization, and Nebraska Nurses Association.  She and her husband own and operate a row crop farming operation that has welcomed back their sons and families to continue a legacy.

Dr. Tara Haskins oversees partnerships to support AgriSafe’s Total Farmer Health initiative. She is also responsible for AgriSafe’s mental health programming. Tara contributes to curriculum design and implements new Total Farmer Health trainings that optimize and expand upon existing programs. She collaborates with organizations and government agencies that are interested in using the Total Farmer Health model as a public health framework. 

Tara has worked in healthcare as a registered nurse for 37 years with clinical experience in medical surgical, critical care, crisis intervention and opioid and alcohol outpatient treatment. Dr. Haskins worked for 11 years in academia as lead faculty in musculoskeletal and psychiatric mental health nursing content across three universities. 

Carey Portell grew up as a cowgirl in Mid Missouri and turned cattle farmer when she married her husband.  She now travels the nation as a professional speaker after enduring a four-year recovery from being hit by an impaired driver. Carey has joined The AgriSafe Network as a TFHC, becoming certified as a QPR trainer.  She also works and advocates on the AgriStress Helpline as she understands the mental health struggles from her recovery as well as working in the agriculture industry.

Laura received her master’s degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication from James Madison University in 2021, with a concentration in Health and Scientific Communication. Her professional interests include supporting her local ag. community, increasing public health literacy, and decreasing the stigmas surrounding mental health disorders and substance use disorders.

Laura’s current projects include script arranging for AgriSafe’s Talking Total Farmer Health podcast, copyediting a broad range of content,  developing digital content, helping with health communication initiatives, and marketing materials, and assisting the Web Technologies Librarian with website accessibility and digital content management.