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Intensive Session: Improving Community Supervision Response: Domestic Violence Offenders (FREE)
SESSION INFO
Sunday, August 24, 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://lms.thelearningcommunitytoendviolence.org/training/domestic-violence-101
As a result of this course, you will be better able to: Identify domestic violence in probation and parole cases Improve skills for working with domestic violence offenders Implement specialized skills to communicate with domestic violence victims effectively Develop partnerships with community and court-based victim advocates
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Jennifer Waindle
Deputy 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. In her current role as a national technical assistance and training provider for probation, parole, and pretrial officers and their respective agencies. Prior to joining BWJP, 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 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.
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