About On The Scene Training

My name is Chrissy, and I founded On The Scene Training in 2007 with a simple goal: provide practical training people could actually use when it mattered.

We began by offering American Red Cross CPR/AED and First Aid courses in our local community. In 2009, a conversation during a tattoo consultation changed the direction of the business. I was asked whether I could also provide Bloodborne Pathogens training for tattoo artists and body piercers because our state had just regulated.

That request brought On The Scene Training directly into tattoo shops. From there, the work grew into tattoo conventions, onsite certification training, safety education, and emergency support. Over the years, we have continued working alongside tattoo and body piercing professionals in the environments where they actually work, not just in a traditional classroom.

As my own children grew up, I also began researching internet and social media safety. The deeper I looked, the more I recognized how vulnerability, access, manipulation, grooming, and exploitation can intersect in ways that are often hidden in plain sight.

That work led me further into human trafficking education, prevention, and community response and eventually brought two parts of my professional world together.

Tattoos Tell A Story

Years spent inside the tattoo industry gave me a different lens on the role tattoos can play in a person's story.

That became the foundation for Tattoos Tell A Story, specialized training that explores tattoos within the larger context of human trafficking, exploitation, relationships, control, trauma, and recovery.

The goal is never to look at a tattoo and decide what it means. Context matters.

The training helps tattoo professionals, law enforcement, investigators, multidisciplinary teams, and service providers understand what tattoos may reveal, how to ask better questions, what their role is—and what it isn't—and when other professionals need to be brought into the conversation.

Where the Work Is Today

Today, On The Scene Training works across several connected areas:

Safety education and certification. Human trafficking education and prevention. Tattoos Tell A Story. Situational awareness. Community engagement. Multidisciplinary collaboration. Survivor-centered tattoo removal and cover-up planning. And mobile sensory support through Take A Sensory Break.

My approach is shaped by professional experience, lived experience, community connection, and nearly two decades spent working directly alongside the people and industries I train.

I also work to help communities connect the dots—bringing people to the same table, identifying gaps, strengthening communication between disciplines, and helping build or support multidisciplinary teams when complex cases require more than one profession or agency.

At the center of all of this are a few things I believe matter:

Context. Choice. Safety. Trust. Collaboration.

The environment matters.

The way we ask questions matters.

Who we bring to the table matters.

Whether I am teaching someone how to save a life, standing on a tattoo convention floor, helping professionals understand human trafficking, working through a complex case with an MDT, engaging a community, or rolling a sensory cart into a room where the conversation has become heavy, my goal remains the same:

Give people knowledge and tools they can actually use.

We Help You Make It Make Sense.