Community Trainings

Presenter: 

Jennet Sullivan is a Master Telecommunicator, licensed instructor, and has over 15 years’ experience call taking and dispatching. She is the Accreditation and Compliance Coordinator, as well as reserve Emergency Dispatcher, at the Cedar Park Police Department. Jennet provides training to Telecommunicators to improve their understanding of domestic violence. She focuses on empowering the first first responder to respond effectively to people in crisis through knowledge, understanding, and healthy empathy.

This training is approved for 3.75 CJAD-FV hours. All attendees seeking LMFT, LPC, MSW, and TCOLE credit, must self-report through their own Department and/or Licensing Board.

The presenter will then discuss common survivor experiences and reactions that may affect their ability and/or willingness to participate in the investigation, prosecution, or therapeutic process based on where they are at in the stages of change. The training will also lay out practical ways to address these reactions and overcome barriers to more effectively communicate with victims of domestic violence.

Presenter: 

Jordyn Lawson is the senior director of Residential Services at Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support. Jordyn supervises both the emergency shelter and Annie’s House transitional living program. Previously, she was the asst. clinical director at Genesis. She has worked in the field of domestic violence and trauma recovery for over 12 years. During that time, Jordyn has provided individual and group counseling services to women, adolescents, and children. She has a passion for ending domestic violence and helping those who have experienced the pain of trauma heal and grow.

3.75 hours of Continuing Professional Education has been applied for on behalf of MCLE. This training is approved for 3.75 CJAD-FV hours. All attendees seeking LMFT, LPC, MSW, and TCOLE credit, must self-report through their own Department and/or Licensing Board.

Presenter:

Julie Germann is the founder of Finding the Right, LLC, where she provides training and technical assistance to improve responses to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. Ms. Germann is a former prosecutor with over a decade of experience prosecuting cases of violence against women and children. Ms. Germann has worked with sexual assault and child abuse multidisciplinary teams and trains nationally. She provides best practice reviews, and contributes to legislative advancements and policy manuals, such as the SART Toolkit published by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Justin Boardman is a retired police detective from the West Valley City Police Department in Utah. Det. Boardman, along with Donna Kelly, ESQ., co-authored a Trauma-Informed Victim Interview protocol for adult victims of sexual assault. This guideline uses the Neurobiology of Trauma to gain additional information to be used in an investigation and has been shown to increase prosecutions along with procedure changes. After retirement, Det. Boardman has focused on culture change within the community and presents and consults nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects.

3.75 hours of Continuing Professional Education has been applied for on behalf of MCLE. This training is approved for CJAD-FV hours. All attendees seeking LMFT,LPC, MSW, and TCOLE credit,must self-report through their own Department and/or Licensing Board.

Presenter:

Julie Germann is the founder of Finding the Right, LLC, where she provides training and technical assistance to improve responses to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. Ms. Germann is a former prosecutor with over a decade of experience prosecuting cases of violence against women and children. Ms. Germann has worked with sexual assault and child abuse multidisciplinary teams and trains nationally. She provides best practice reviews, and contributes to legislative advancements and policy manuals, such as the SART Toolkit published by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Justin Boardman is a retired police detective from the West Valley City Police Department in Utah. Det. Boardman, along with Donna Kelly, ESQ., co-authored a Trauma-Informed Victim Interview protocol for adult victims of sexual assault. This guideline uses the Neurobiology of Trauma to gain additional information to be used in an investigation and has been shown to increase prosecutions along with procedure changes. After retirement, Det. Boardman has focused on culture change within the community and presents and consults nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects.

3.75 hours of Continuing Professional Education has been applied for on behalf of MCLE. This training is approved for CJAD-FV hours. All attendees seeking LMFT,LPC, MSW, and TCOLE credit,must self-report through their own Department and/or Licensing Board.

Presenter:

Maggy McGiffert, M.A. is a Senior Research Associate and sociologist at the Center on Violence Prevention at The University of Texas Medical Branch. She has worked for over 25 years on the intersecting issues faced by survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault and children exposed to IPV. She has directed community-based services such as transitional housing services for survivors and led policy initiatives advocating for survivors in Texas. Her evaluations and research have focused on listening to the voices of survivors and those working directly with them, with the goal of highlighting innovation and sharing research results to inform policy, funding, and practices addressing the systemic barriers faced by survivors of violence.

Julie Olomi, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow in the Violence Against Women Cluster at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Her research broadly focuses on gender based and family violence and system response in the context of repeated victimization. Currently, her projects investigate women’s risk for revictimization during the pretrial period, domestic violence transitional housing and child and parenting outcomes, and the role of family violence as a barrier to service engagement in child welfare services. Dr. Olomi is also a trained clinical psychologist and specializes in treating trauma exposed children, youth, and their families.

Accreditation information: 1.50 credit hours have been applied for on behalf of MCLE. This training has been approved for 1.50 CJAD-FV hours. All attendees seeking LMFT, LPC, MSW, and TCOLE credit, must self-report through their own Department and/or Licensing Board

The presenter will then discuss common survivor experiences and reactions that may affect their ability and/or willingness to participate in the investigation, prosecution, or therapeutic process based on where they are at in the stages of change. The training will also lay out practical ways to address these reactions and overcome barriers to more effectively communicate with victims of domestic violence.

Presenter: 

Jordyn Lawson is the senior director of Residential Services at Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support. Jordyn supervises both the emergency shelter and Annie’s House transitional living program. Previously, she was the asst. clinical director at Genesis. She has worked in the field of domestic violence and trauma recovery for over 12 years. During that time, Jordyn has provided individual and group counseling services to women, adolescents, and children. She has a passion for ending domestic violence and helping those who have experienced the pain of trauma heal and grow.

3.75 hours of Continuing Professional Education has been applied for on behalf of MCLE. This training is approved for 3.75 CJAD-FV hours. All attendees seeking LMFT, LPC, MSW, and TCOLE credit, must self-report through their own Department and/or Licensing Board.

Presenter:

Julie Germann is the founder of Finding the Right, LLC, where she provides training and technical assistance to improve responses to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. Ms. Germann is a former prosecutor with over a decade of experience prosecuting cases of violence against women and children. Ms. Germann has worked with sexual assault and child abuse multidisciplinary teams and trains nationally. She provides best practice reviews, and contributes to legislative advancements and policy manuals, such as the SART Toolkit published by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Justin Boardman is a retired police detective from the West Valley City Police Department in Utah. Det. Boardman, along with Donna Kelly, ESQ., co-authored a Trauma-Informed Victim Interview protocol for adult victims of sexual assault. This guideline uses the Neurobiology of Trauma to gain additional information to be used in an investigation and has been shown to increase prosecutions along with procedure changes. After retirement, Det. Boardman has focused on culture change within the community and presents and consults nationally and internationally on a variety of subjects.

3.75 hours of Continuing Professional Education has been applied for on behalf of MCLE. This training is approved for CJAD-FV hours. All attendees seeking LMFT,LPC, MSW, and TCOLE credit,must self-report through their own Department and/or Licensing Board.