Meg Schaul has been a certified public accountant in the state of Illinois for seventeen years and has had her own practice for the past nine years. Prior to her accounting career, Meg spent thirteen years working in the medical field. She spent six years working in nursing homes caring for the elderly as a restorative and nursing aide. She then spent seven years on staff working with a doctor of internal medicine helping patients cope with various physical and mental health issues. Meg is the surviving sibling of a brother that completed suicide at the age of 21. Over the years, she has dealt with officers on first response of many different personal and professional levels. After dealing with depression in her own immediate family, she saw how a help-line can play an important role in providing a "first step" on the road to recovery and being the catalyst for continued care and treatment necassary for good mental health. Her reason for involvement with COPLINE is that she feels strongly that it will fill a void that has long existed in crisis intervention by providing a specialized outreach for those individuals, our law enforcement officers and their families, that have to deal with the harshest elements in human existence on a daily basis.