Co-Founder & Consultant

Lindsay Slattery-Cerny, MSW

Lindsay is a Palm Beach County-based social work leader with more than fifteen years of experience spanning frontline practice and systems change across the Treasure Coast. After completing her master’s in social work at Florida Atlantic University in 2012, she served in every tier of the child welfare continuum — case management, forensic assessment, and residential programming — championing trauma-informed, family-centered care.

Personal and professional suicide losses galvanized Lindsay’s commitment to crisis prevention. From 2016 to 2019 she directed the Florida Linking Individuals Needing Care (FL LINC) Project, the region’s first initiative to embed SAMHSA’s Zero Suicide framework, through a partnership with Southeast Florida Behavioral Health Network. As a regional suicide-prevention specialist she became a certified instructor in QPR, QPR-T, and Youth Mental Health First Aid, ultimately training more than 3,000 parents, educators, clinicians, and community leaders.

At Coastline she provides systems-oriented behavioral health consulting and delivers statewide trainings in Zero Suicide, trauma-informed care, grant development, active bystander intervention, and overdose response. She also volunteers as a regional director for the Florida Suicide Prevention Coalition.

Co-Founder & Consultant

Catharine Staniscia, MLFP

Catharine brings over a decade of experience in behavioral health, trauma response, and systems-level coordination. With a master’s in Legal and Forensic Psychology from the University of California, Irvine, she has dedicated her career to supporting vulnerable populations through meaningful policy development, crisis intervention, and program innovation.

Originally from New Jersey, she worked for Prevent Child Abuse-NJ and served as a certified SAFE Rape Crisis Advocate. Since 2017 she has worked in South Florida supporting children and families facing complex challenges, with a specialized focus on high-trauma and crisis cases. Her roles have spanned direct service, contract oversight, and cross-agency collaboration, with work at Henderson Behavioral Health, Hanley Foundation, Sandy Pines, and Southeast Florida Behavioral Health Network.

As a certified QPR and QPRT instructor and Zero Suicide advocate, Catharine’s advanced training spans domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking prevention, and complex crisis intervention.