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Corrections Preconference

Improving Community Supervision Response When Encountering Domestic Violence Offenders

Are you a Probation, Parole, or Pretrial Officer who monitors domestic violence (DV) offenders? Have you wished for specialized training for monitoring these defendants and how to support case victims? This course is for you!
The Corrections Preconference is designed to be a train-the-trainer curriculum with a focus on identifying DV in probation and parole cases, improving skills for working with DV offenders, implementing specialized skills to communicate with DV victims effectively, and develop partnerships with community and court-based victim advocates. The Corrections Preconference is open to officers of all skill levels. Additionally, officers are not required to be a formal instructor to participate in this course. Officers will be asked to take what they have learned back to their agencies and train their peers. Presenters will provide the curriculum for future use as well as a certificate of completion.

NOTE: Attendees are required to complete a one-hour Domestic Violence 101 course BEFORE attending the in-person training event. The course is located here: https://gbvlearningcommunity.org/Courses/CourseDetails/125

This project is supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-22-GK-04027-MUMU awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this program are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

Sunday, May 18

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Pricing

$125

This price is being charged by Conference on Crimes Against Women.

REGISTER HERE

Corrections Preconference Presented by:

Preconference presenters:

Jennifer Waindle

Jennifer Waindle is the Project Director of the National Center on Improving Community Supervision Responses of the Battered Women’s Justice Project. Ms. Waindle has extensive experience in domestic violence (DV) prevention and law enforcement (LE) where she has spent more than 18 years in various leadership roles in DeKalb County in metro Atlanta, helping protect victims and has investigated and prosecuted offenders while advancing lifesaving LE programs throughout the state of Georgia. Most recently, Ms. Waindle was a senior investigator in the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office where she co-led a newly formed Firearm Violence Prevention Unit focused on firearm assaults and homicides. The Unit engaged in public outreach and education programs in firearm safety as well as collaborating extensively with federal LE agencies. Earlier in her career with the District Attorney’s Office, she was part of the DV/Sexual Assault Unit that investigated and prosecuted felony cases involving intimate partner violence, and intimate partner homicide.

Jeanne Mullane

Jeanne Mullane is a Domestic Violence Probation Officer with Loudoun County Community Corrections and has worked in the criminal justice field for just over two decades. Ms. Mullane’s career began in 1998 as a victim advocate providing crisis intervention & advocacy services to victims of violent crime, specializing in domestic & sexual violence. In 2006, she transitioned to probation, supervising male & female domestic violence offenders with Loudoun County Community Corrections. In 2010, Ms. Mullane returned to victim services working for the Army Family Advocacy Program, the Office for Victims of Crime Training & Technical Assistance Center and the City of Alexandria Domestic Violence Program.

“Community Supervision Officers have the longest contact with Offenders and Victims of anyone else in the criminal legal system and they aren’t provided with domestic violence training, a crucial need when managing these caseloads”

- Corrections Supervisor

Agenda

BEFORE ATTENDING

You must complete (1 hour) online DV 101: https://gbvlearningcommunity.org/Courses/CourseDetails/125

8:00am - 8:30am (30 min)

Sign-in, Registration

8:30am - 8:45am (15 min)

Welcome, Introduction, Training Overview

9:00am - 9:45am (45 min)

Identifying Domestic Violence in Your Caseloads

9:45am - 10:45am (1 hr)

Domestic Violence Offender Accountability and Compliance Part 1

10:45am - 11:00am (15 min)

Break

11:00am - 12:00pm (1 hr)

Domestic Violence Offender Accountability and Compliance Part 2

11:15am - 12:00pm (45 min)

Perpetrator Strategies, Victim/Survivor Protective Strategies, Power & Control, Cycle of Violence; Resistive Violence

12:00pm - 1:00pm (1 hr)

Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm - 1:30pm (30 min)

Understanding the Basic Principles of Working with Survivors

1:30pm - 2:00pm (30 min)

Confidentiality for Victim Advocates and Probation Officers

2:00pm - 2:15pm (15 min)

Break

2:15pm - 3:00pm (45 min)

Safety Planning/Risk Assessment/Lethality Assessment Overviews

3:00pm - 3:30pm (30 min)

Tips & Techniques for Working with Treatment Providers

3:30pm - 3:45pm (15 min)

Break

3:45pm - 4:15pm (30 min)

Best Practices for Case Report Writing and Evidence Preservation

4:15pm - 4:30pm (15 min)

Questions, Wrap-up, Evaluation

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TRAINING FACULTY

Kristine Lizdas

Battered Women's Justice Project

Jennifer Waindle

Battered Women's Justice Project

Dr. Sujata Warrier

Battered Women's Justice Project

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY

Nicole Bockhorn

Winnebago County Adult Probation Domestic Violence Unit

Dominique Hardeman

Pierce County District Court Probation

Darci Haug

Bonner County Justice Services

Dean Jenkins

Cleveland Municipal Court

Gwyn Kaitis

American Probation and Parole Association

Tricia Ledoux

Violence No More, Inc

Nada Yorke

Yorke Consulting and Correctional Counseling for Change