Dr. Stacy Sechrist (NC Network for Safe Communities) received new funding from the Lexington Police Department for the project “Support of Lexington Police Department’s Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative-Year 2020-2021.” John Weil is co-principal investigator on the project.
North Carolina Network for Safe Communities (NCNSC) has been the training/technical assistance and evaluation partner for the replication of the Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative in Lexington, NC since the project began in 2014. A portion of Lexington Police Department’s grant with the NC Governor’s Crime Commission (GCC) would be to continue to support NCNSC’s on-the-ground support of the initiative in Lexington, which would include continued data tracking and evaluation, assistance with systems and processes, and documentation of the new addition of a Jessica Gonzales victim assistant within the police department, including outcomes and process changes. The Jessica Gonzales position would be a position funded through the GCC grant to Lexington Police Department.
