(Photo of Tamara L. Collier Provided with Release Courtesy of TRAILS Ministries)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver Falls, PA) According to a release today from TRAILS Ministries, TRAILS Ministries of Beaver Falls has hired a new Executive Director who began with the
organization in August of 2025, Tamara L. Collier. Collier served for fourteen and a half years as the Community Outreach Specialist, Reentry Coordinator
and Diversity Coordinator with the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of
Pennsylvania. Collier also served as a life coach during that tenure with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and she assists in facilitating the Beaver County Community and Law Enforcement Coalition. Collier is also both the coordinator and co-creator of Tiger Talk at Beaver Falls High School in Beaver Falls, which brings alumni of that school from different career paths who lived experiences to both mentor and engage students several times during their freshman year of high school, which is in 9th grade. Collier is also a member of several teams and councils, including the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League’s (WPIAL’s) Equity Advisory Council. Collier convened the Trauma-Informed Care Group, now known as the Trauma Liberation Collective (TLC) to bring together local trauma experts and supporters to lead the efforts of establishing a trauma-informed initiative in Allegheny County in August of 2020. The TLC has a focus primarily of education regarding the trauma that is unaddressed within the Black communities of Allegheny County, reducing the stigma of seeking help for this trauma and to promote the heaing of this trauma. Collier also included facilitating both the Downtown Safety Coalition and the Western District of Pennsylvania’s Community Police Relations Groups in both Pittsburgh and Erie. Collier is also a mother of three young men who have all graduated from college and a grandmother of five grandchildren. The reentry project for TRAILS Ministries of Beaver Falls, which is now where Collier will serve as their executive director, is a faith-based, holistic approach to helping those impacted by the trauma of incarceration directly or indirectly.