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Intensive Session: Improving Community Supervision Response to Domestic Violence
SESSION INFO
Sunday, January 26, 2025
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Session Type: Intensive
Are you a Probation, Parole, or Pretrial officer who monitors domestic violence offenders? Have you wished for specialized training for monitoring these defendants and how to support case victims? This course is for you! This will be a day long train-the-trainer curriculum focusing on these topics, and more! You are not required to be a formal instructor to participate in this course, it is open to Officers of all skills levels. You will be asked to take what you learn back to your agencies and train your peers. We will provide the curriculum to you for your future use, and a certificate of completion. NOTE: Students 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
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Jennifer Waindle
Director, Battered Women's Justice Project
Jennifer Waindle joins BWJP with extensive experience in domestic violence prevention and law enforcement. She has spent more than 18 years in various leadership roles in DeKalb County in metro Atlanta, helping protect victims and investigate and prosecute offenders while advancing lifesaving law enforcement programs throughout the state of Georgia. Most recently, she 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 by serial offenders with an extensive domestic violence or felony background. The unit engaged in public outreach and education programs in firearm safety as well as collaborating extensively with federal law enforcement agencies. Earlier in her career with the District Attorney’s Office, she was part of the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault unit that investigated and prosecuted felony cases involving intimate partner violence, intimate partner homicide and adult sexual assault. Prior to Jennifer’s work with the District Attorney’s Office, she was a Supervisor for DeKalb County State Court Probation. There she developed and implemented the policies and procedures for Intensive Supervision of Domestic Violence Probationers. Additionally, she mentored other probation and parole agencies in Georgia to develop specialized domestic violence units aimed at offender accountability while also assisting survivors and their families.
Nada Yorke
Owner, LCSW, Yorke Consulting Correctional Counseling for Change
Nada Yorke, LCSW, owner of Yorke Consulting has over forty years working in the criminal justice system as a probation officer, victim advocate, domestic violence expert witness and trainer for therapists, law enforcement, advocates, and other court personnel about the value of working with offenders to stop the cycle of violence. She provides basic and advanced trainings for probation officers and abuser intervention providers. Her research results from a prison program and subsequent community program have both been published in The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. She created batterer intervention curriculum in both men’s and women’s editions and a youth curriculum to help adolescents develop “healthy relationships for life”.
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