My interest in becoming a P.O.S.T. certified instructor dates back to early in my career. When I was assigned to the Cherokee County Domestic Violence Task Force, I was asked to give a lecture in a 4 hour D.V. refresher course. Since that time, I have taken advantage of every opportunity presented to give lectures and presentations as a subject matter expert.
Early in my career, I was selected to be one of the first members to a newly formed Domestic Violence Task Force in Cherokee County. Consequently, this led to a passion for aiding victims of physical crimes which carried me into working with child victims. For the next several years I focused on investigating crimes against children. In 2006, I was recognized as a state expert
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I testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee, and was credited with being instrumental in getting the law passed. My lobby efforts led to national recognition for advocacy of drug abuse victims and the introduction of naloxone into police departments across the state. As a result, I was invited to speak in Washington, D.C. at the National Summit on Illegal Drugs hosted by Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), an organization of which I am an active member, and served as a panel member on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s television news program “On the Story” and 11Alive’s prime time documentary “The Triangle”. I successfully formed Georgia’s first opiate overdose prevention program for law enforcement (naloxone), which led to many guest lectures and presentations as a subject matter expert on the Georgia 911 Medical Amnesty Law and the use of naloxone. My passion for awareness and education in the heroin epidemic is an area I plan to utilize for my proposed lesson plan in the instructor training