C. J. Caufield is the Central Regional Director for the State of Mississippi Department of Health CISM program and works diligently with some other key individuals developing the Mississippi Crisis Response Network aimed at networking crisis response efforts throughout the state for first responders, medical facilities, schools, industry, and general population needs. He is also a member of the National Crisis Response Team with the American Association of Christian Counselors. He is currently a student-pastor with the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist church where he also serves as the Conference Disaster Response Coordinator.

Mr. Caufield holds membership in several organizations intended to gain further insight in the area of critical incident stress, psychological first aid, crisis intervention, and suicide intervention including the Academy of Traumatic Stress Specialists, the American Association of Suicidology, the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology, the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, the National Police Suicide Foundation, and the International Conference of Police Chaplains. He is a Certified Trauma Services Specialist through the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists. He is a Diplomate and Board Certified in Expert in Traumatic Stress (B.C.E.T.S.) with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and Certified in Homeland Security (CHS-III) through the American Academy of Forensic Examiners Institute. He has thousand of hours of training and responding to many people in a vast variety of circumstances.

He was awarded the coveted Jefferson Cup by ICISF for his coordination of providing peer-based intervention services for the first responders in Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. In February of 2007, he was awarded the "Community Service Award" in Baltimore, Maryland at the Ninth World Congress on Stress and Coping for this same work. He co-presented there as one of a handful of plenary presenters and is also a regular column contributor for Officer.com.