Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research (APPR) is pleased to offer a free virtual training on domestic violence lethality red flags and fatality reviews. The course will take place on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, from 1 to 3 p.m. ET. The registration deadline is Thursday, June 5.
About the Training
People working in legal, health, and advocacy professions all have important opportunities to help end domestic and intimate partner violence. To be part of the solution, we can learn to recognize the lethality red flags of stalking, strangulation, and suicidality. We honor the lives of people killed by domestic violence by learning valuable lessons from their stories and using that knowledge to shape policy, improve practices, and strengthen local responses.
Fatality review teams offer communities an avenue to put this knowledge to work. Domestic violence fatality review teams can identify system responses that led to missed opportunities to hold aggressors accountable; going forward this can improve safety for victims of violence and further the development of a coordinated community response to violence.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the training, participants will:
- Learn how system and community stakeholders can support survivors of DV/IPV by better understanding the lethality red flags of stalking, strangulation, and suicidality
- Understand what homicide review teams have gleaned about red flags from lethal DV case reviews
- Learn how to develop a local DV homicide review team
- Be familiar with APPR resources and the APPR Community
Training Faculty
Shawn LaGrega, deputy director, Maine Pretrial Services, Inc.
Mr. LaGrega has many years of experience in pretrial services and responding to DV/IPV. He serves on the Maine Commission on Domestic and Sexual Abuse and is a national trainer on the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) tool. Mr. LaGrega has presented nationally and internationally on a broad range of topics related to DV/IPV, including assessing risk, addressing the needs of survivors and incarcerated women, and pretrial agencies’ responses to DV/IPV.
Tamika Cheree Henry, founder of I Am Here
Ms. Henry is a writer, speaker, and advocate of mental health and domestic violence awareness. Born and raised in Detroit, she experienced tragedy early in life, losing her mother and father to gun violence at a young age. As an adult, Ms. Henry lost her only child. Years of great faith, courage, walking through her grief—and ultimately healing—resulted in her founding I Am Here, which helps people “rebuild after suffering a violent tragedy.” Ms. Henry is passionate about helping others turn tragedy into triumph. She holds a BA in communications from Purdue University Global.
Tammy Meredith, PhD, consultant, APPR
Dr. Meredith helps communities apply science to solve problems. Her social justice projects include preventing environmental violence, promoting pretrial justice, and quantifying racial and gender system disparities. She cofounded and managed the Atlanta-based public policy research firm Applied Research Services for nearly 30 years. Her career includes quantitative research to predict violent behavior; she has also led numerous U.S. Department of Justice studies, published academic and practitioner articles, and led professional research seminars.
Kristie Puckett, community engagement consultant
Ms. Puckett’s direct experience with poverty, drug addiction, domestic violence, and incarceration led her to pursue a career in policy and advocacy. She is an expert on the conditions of confinement for women and girls, including those who are pregnant. Ms. Puckett also serves as the Women in Incarceration Workgroup chair for North Carolina’s State Reentry Council Collaborative and as a commissioner on the North Carolina Commission on Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System.
Rachel Taylor, director of sexual assault services, Action in Community Through Service (ACTS)
Ms. Taylor graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor’s degree in criminology, law, and society and minors in psychology and sociology. In late 2013, she began working with the sexual offender team with adult probation and parole in Manassas, Virginia. Ms. Taylor became supervisor of the team in 2017 and left in 2022 to join ACTS and pursue her passion for helping victims of sexual assault and all those supported by the organization’s mission.
Undrea “Gem” Jones, justice policy consultant, Center for Effective Public Policy
Gem Jones is an organizer with lived experience, as well as a motivational speaker, advocate, and change maker. She is dedicated to bringing about intentional restorative justice changes within her community for the betterment of all people, while building bridges with love. Through her work as a motivational speaker, Ms. Jones has helped countless individuals find their voice. As an expert with lived experience, she has been heard all over the country at summits, conferences, judiciary hearings, panels, and in the Senate halls in Washington, DC. As a change maker, Ms. Jones has been instrumental in bringing about real change in her community, working to create a more just and equitable society for all.
Jennifer Annis, project manager, Cumberland County Public Health Department Violence Intervention Partnership
Ms. Annis has over 20 years of experience supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexualized violence and stalking, and working with community partners on best practices and policies. She has provided training and technical assistance at local, state, and national levels on domestic violence, response to nonfatal strangulation, and community collaboration. Ms. Annis coordinates Cumberland County’s Electronic Monitoring and Victim Notification Project, the DV Court Case Coordination Advisory Group, the Response to Non-fatal Strangulation Training Team, and provides support for the local Sexual Assault Response Team and High Risk Response Teams.
Application Process
If you are interested in attending the training session on June 11, complete the application. You must submit your application by Thursday, June 5.
Please direct any questions to Samuel Steed, operations assistant at the Center for Effective Public Policy, at ssteed@cepp.com.