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An Evening of Remembrance is to honor and empower victims and survivors of domestic violence during Domestic Violence Awareness MonthJoin The Chloe Randolph Organization for an evening of celebration of life with victims and survivors of Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is a time when we as a community, and a nation come together in support of victims, survivors, and their families for awareness, advocacy, education, and empowerment.
Hope is the belief that, regardless of circumstances, the future is full of possibilities. Please join us for an evening of remembrance, hope, awareness, and advocacy.
We are excited to announce the following KEY NOTE SPEAKERS attending An Evening of Remembrance.
-Miss Kansas, Alexis Smith. She is a survivor of Domestic Violence and her platform is HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS.
ALEXIS SMITH – MISS KANSAS 2024
Miss Kansas, Alexis Smith, is a graduate of Newman University, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Alexis’ community service initiative is Respect Reclaimed: Advocating for Healthy Relationships. It is Alexis’ mission to spread awareness of unhealthy and abusive relationships in all facets of life. Being able to identify what a healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationship looks like is vital in the process of comprehending how to practice healthy behaviors.
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE (CSI)
Alexis is committed to educating individuals about promoting healthy relationships and intimate partner violence. Her presentations cover various forms of abuse, not just physical, to help individuals recognize and prevent them. This ongoing education aims to create a supportive community and empower positive changes.
Miss Kansas travels throughout the state working closely with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, Kansas Department of Transportation, and Lead For America. She provides education and advocates for healthy relationships during her year as Miss Kansas.
FAST FACTS
• Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Nurse
• 2nd Generation Nurse
• Former Division I Cheerleader
• Ventriloquist
• Host of Love Unlocked, an event raising funds & items for the Wichita Family Crisis Center
-(Ret) Detective Mark Wynn, Wynn Consulting. Mr. Wynn is world renowned Domestic & Sexual Violence Prevention and Training. Mark Wynn is woven in the fabric of the battered women’s movement” Lynn Rosenthal, our country’s first White House adviser on violence against women 2017
Lt. Mark Wynn (ret)
2516 Somerset Drive
Nashville, Tennessee 37217
Office: 615-360-3994
Cell: 615-579-3994
[email protected] – www.markynn.com
Owner/Operator WYNN CONSULTING
Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Training and Consulting
“Mark is woven into the fabric of the battered women’s movement”, said Lynn Rosenthal, our country’s first White House adviser on violence against women. He is a national trainer to police executives, patrol officers, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals and victim advocates in all fifty states for over thirty years. An international lecturer at police academies in Australia, Canada, Germany, England, Northern Ireland, Russia, the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Georgia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Aruba, China, the Islands of the Bahamas, Brazil, Turkey, Cyprus, Singapore, the Republic of Namibia, the Republic of Ghana and the Republic of Moldova. He is a Fulbright Specialist for the Department of State and is a survivor, enabling him to teach both effectively and passionately. In short, he is devoted to ending domestic/sexual, elder and child abuse as a police officer, detective, educator, program supervisor and now consultant and advisor. In past 20 years he has traveled 2,478,313 miles to all 50 states and 16 other countries while visiting 1,250 cities, towns and villages.
Law Enforcement Career
• Twenty-one-year member of the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department – Served as Lieutenant to the Domestic Violence Division – member of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team for fifteen years.
• A key creator of the largest police domestic violence investigative unit in the United States responsible for investigations of elder, child abuse, domestic and sexual violence.
• 1994 Graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy – Session 178
• Co-wrote the Police Officer Standards and Training certified curriculum on Law Enforcement Intervention a nd Investigation to Domestic and Sexual Violence (Tennessee)
Awards/Recognitions
• 2017 selected a Fulbright Specialist U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
• Selected in 1995 as one of the top ten police officers in the United States by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Parade Magazine
• Recipient of 121 commendations and 51 awards and certificates including the 1995 National Improvement of Justice Award and the 1998 Nashvillian of the Year Award.
• 2012 Family Justice Center Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2011 “Visionary Award” by End Violence Against Women International
• 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award by the National District Attorney’s Association
Speaking/Testifying
• In October of 1995 Lt. Wynn was invited to the White House by President Clinton to deliver a speech on strategies to prevent domestic violence in the United States.
• In April 1993 Lt. Wynn was called to testify before Congress for the Energy and Commerce Committee – Subcommittee on Health and Environment. He spoke on the public health issue of violence in the family.
• In June of 1994 he testified a second time before Congress going before the House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary on the positive effects on mandatory arrest in incidents of family violence.
• In October of 1998 he was selected to represent U.S. Law Enforcement before the first United States/Russian conference on Violence Against Women in Moscow.
Teaching
• Consultant and Advisor to The National Center for State Courts – Mitigating Bias in Criminal Justice 1• Consultant to Global Rights for Women Justice for Victims of Violence
• Subject Matter Expert/Trainer – Attorney Generals Alliance - Africa
• Faculty member to the National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against Women for the International Association of Chiefs of Police
• Consultant and trainer for the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence – Austin, Texas
• Adjunct Instructor/Faculty to the National College of District Attorney’s conferences on Family Violence for twenty years. United States, Micronesia
• Adjunct instructor to the Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy in Nashville for 31 years
• Trainer/Consultant to the American Bar Association International Rule of Law Initiative – China, The Republic of Georgia
• Past instructor to the Nashville Metropolitan Police Academy – Recruit and In-Service Courses of Intervention and Investigation of Domestic and Sexual Violence
Affiliations
• Board Member – Metropolitan Nashville Community Oversight Board
• Member of the Advisory Board National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Advisory Board Member of the Mary Byron Foundation
• Adverse Childhood Experience Committee- National Domestic Violence Resource Center
• Member of International Association of Chiefs of Police National Strategic Partnership on Violence Against Women Faculty and National Leadership Institute
• Past board member to the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic Violence.
• Consultant to the National Stalking Resource Center of the National Center for Victims of Crime.
• Consultant to the US Department of Justice:
o Office of Victims of Crime
o Office of Violence Against Women
o Civil Rights Division
• Consultant/Speaker – Fulbright Specialist for the US Department of State
• Member of the National Organization of Black Law enforcement Executives (NOBLE)
• Member of the National Sheriff’s Association
• Member of Fraternal Order of Police since 1980
• Qualified as “expert” on the issue of family violence in state and federal court.
• 2013 Executive Committee Member - Domestic Violence Safety and Accountability Assessment - Office of Mayor – Nashville/Davidson County, Tennessee
PUBLICATIONS/FILMS
2023 This Is Where I Learned Not to Sleep - Spargel Productions
2021 Determining Primary Aggressor and Self Defense - ICCR
2019 Tragic Refugee - Ohio Domestic Violence Network Clemency Program
2017 The Crime of Domestic Violence – National Roll Call Training Film Series - IACP
2016 Domestic Violence in the Law Enforcement Family – Past, Present and Future – The Domestic Violence Report 2015 Safety Planning for Our First Responders – Domestic Violence Report – Vol 20, No 5 June/July
2013 Officer Safety in Domestic Violence Responses - Officer Safety Corner – Police Chief Magazine
2013 Makers – Women Who Make America - PBS – Documentary social revolution in American history.
2007 Code of Silence - Officer Involved Domestic Violence - You Have the Power – Nashville, Tennessee
2003 Stalking Real Fear Real Crime - Roll Call Training Video - National Center for Victims of Crime
2002 I Wish the Hitting Would Stop Red Flag – Green Flag Resources - Curriculum Elementary Teachers and Children 2001 There’s No Place Like Home (Article) Vinelink - Online Community for Victim Services
2001 Stalking - Patrol Response - California Police Officers Standards and Training Video
1999 Bridging Domestic Violence and Child Abuse - Video - National Children’s Alliance DOJ
1999 Interviewing Domestic Violence Victims - California Police Officers Standards and Training Video
1996 Domestic Violence Intervention and Investigation - Tennessee Police Officer Standards and Training Curriculum 1996 Seeds of Change - The Nashville Community Coordinated Response to Domestic Violence - Video
1995 What Can We Do About Violence - PBS Bill Moyers Special - Advisor/Character 1992 Cries of Help - Guest/Subject - National Broadcasting Company “Dateline NBC” 1987 Albuquerque Journal Narrator advisor- Domestic Violence First Responders D
Please stay tuned for additional speaker and event information. It is time that we are no longer silent, but become the loud voice for victims to know that they matter and have a voice.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bally's Evansville, 507 NW Riverside Dr, Evansville, IN 47708-1049, United States,Evansville, Indiana
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