Statewide Criminal Justice Behavioral Health & Substance Use Disorder Response Coordinator
Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
Richmond, VA
Leslie received her Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Old Dominion University and earned her Master of Public Administration with a Concentration in Executive Leadership, from Virginia Commonwealth University. Leslie has over 25 years of experience in the field of criminal justice and community corrections acting as a Deputy Sheriff, Probation & Parole Officer, Local Pre-trial and Probation Officer, Peer Grant Reviewer, and an EBP/Community Corrections Training and Development Coordinator. For three years she was a full time consultant acting as a Training and Implementation Specialist developing agency specific training and implementation materials and specialized in providing on-site training and skill coaching for staff at all levels. The bulk of her career was spent in the field as a probation and parole officer which lead her to specializing in assisting staff go from Core Correctional Practice skill acquisition to mastery of those skills through different coaching modalities. She has directed trainings for line-staff, supervisors, and executives in Core Correctional Practices, EPICS II, IBIS, STARR, Motivational Interviewing basics and several other curriculums. She is currently in the role of Statewide Criminal Justice Behavioral Health and Substance Use Response Coordinator for the Department of Criminal Justice Services specializing in work related to behavioral health, Substance Use Disorder, and Re-entry initiatives in the adult corrections world. This includes managing the Framework for Addiction Analysis & Community Transformation (FAACT) project which was created to assist Virginia in utilizing cross-agency data sharing as a tool to address the addiction and overdose crisis.
Monday, April 10, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM