Office of Community Safety

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 

Room: Lecture Hall 

Description:

This panel highlights innovative employment initiatives that successfully engage community partners, reduce barriers, and create pathways to meaningful job opportunities. Featuring organizations and agencies with current models, the discussion will explore how to design sustainable, engaging programs that offer experiential learning for youth and young adults. Panelists will also share practical strategies to help participants overcome common challenges, such as transportation, technology, access to uniforms, food insecurity, and foundational skill gaps, while supporting employment success. 

Objectives:

By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to: 

• Understand the impact of apprenticeship programs. 

• Apply effective strategies to engage and support their team in investing in an apprenticeship program.  

• Identify ways to provide enhanced mentoring support after program completion.  

• Develop approaches to engage community and local partners in delivering wraparound support. 

• How to anticipate and overcome barriers when developing an apprenticeship program. 

Panelists:

1. Todd Reid, Assistant Director Security Operations, Parks and Recreation

2. Roberto Gomez, Executive Director,  Cornerstone Craftsman

3. Gina Gallegos, Human Resources Generalist II, Prince William Water

4. Byren Lloyd, Director of Safety and Security, OmniRide  

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 

Room: Multi-Purpose Room

Description:

Stalkers are creative criminals who use – and misuse – a variety of technologies to locate, monitor, contact, and otherwise scare their victims. While helping survivors navigate technology-facilitated stalking can seem intimidating, the reality is that many stalkers leverage common and easy-to-use applications and devices. This session provides concrete strategies to help responders identify technologies being used to facilitate stalking, safety plan with survivors, and preserve evidence. 

Objectives:

By the end of this presentation, participants will be better able to: 

• Identify common technologies misused by perpetrators 

• Apply strategies to document stalking and preserve technological evidence 

• Consider tools for enhancing victim safety 

Panelists:

1. Dana Fleitman, Senior Training & Awareness Specialist, Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)

Time: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 

Room: Lecture Hall 

Description:

Successful reentry is one of the most powerful drivers of community safety and long-term community stability. This panel explores what it truly means to reimagine reentry in a way that centers opportunity, dignity, and shared responsibility. Bringing together system leaders, service providers, employers, and individuals with lived experience, the conversation will examine how communities can build clear pathways to success while addressing the structural barriers that too often stand in the way of successful reentry. 

Panelists will highlight innovative models that expand access to housing, employment, education, behavioral health care, and social support. They will also discuss the policy shifts, cross-sector partnerships, and community-led strategies that are redefining what effective reentry looks like. From technology-enabled solutions to trauma-informed practices, the session will showcase approaches that reduce recidivism, strengthen trust, and create safer, more resilient neighborhoods. 

Attendees will leave with actionable insights, real-world examples, and a renewed understanding of how reentry can be transformed into a pathway toward stability—for individuals returning home and for the communities that welcome them. 

Objectives:

By the end of this presentation, participants will be better able to: 

• Recognize successful reentry as a critical driver of community safety, stability, and long-term resilience  

• Understand the connection between reentry outcomes and reductions in recidivism, victimization, and system involvement 

• Gain insight into the structural and systemic barriers impacting returning citizens, including housing, employment, and access to care  

• Examine how policies, practices, and stigma contribute to reentry challenges 

• Leave with practical tools, strategies, and real-world examples that can be adapted within their own jurisdictions or organizations 

• Shift perspectives from reentry as a system challenge to reentry as a pathway to opportunity, dignity, and community reintegration

Panelists:

1. Sgt. McDonald, Inmate Programs, Prince William-Manassas Adult Detention Center
2. Natalie Tacci, Program Manager, Geo Group, Inc
3. Camille Watkin, Community Readiness and Reentry Support Services Manager, Arlington County Sheriff’s Office

Room: Lecture Hall

Time: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (Cont'd) 

Room: Multi-Purpose Room

Description:

Stalkers are creative criminals who use – and misuse – a variety of technologies to locate, monitor, contact, and otherwise scare their victims. While helping survivors navigate technology-facilitated stalking can seem intimidating, the reality is that many stalkers leverage common and easy-to-use applications and devices. This session provides concrete strategies to help responders identify technologies being used to facilitate stalking, safety plan with survivors, and preserve evidence. 

Objectives:

By the end of this presentation, participants will be better able to: 

• Identify common technologies misused by perpetrators 

• Apply strategies to document stalking and preserve technological evidence 

• Consider tools for enhancing victim safety 

Panelists:

1. Dana Fleitman, Senior Training & Awareness Specialist, Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. 

Room: Lecture Hall 

Description:

MAP-EC partnerships will be highlighted through a panel discussion featuring leaders from the Mason and Partners (MAP) Clinics’ Empowered Communities program and Prince William County partners. The discussion will showcase how George Mason University and community organizations are working together to expand access to care, strengthen recovery supports, and improve public health outcomes in underserved communities.

Panelists will discuss several collaborative initiatives, including the Jail Medication-Assisted Treatment Program, the Peer Internship Project, and Community MAT efforts. These efforts reflect a shared commitment to supporting justice-involved individuals, building peer support capacity, and creating stronger pathways to treatment and recovery. This sustained collaboration was recognized through the Jack Wood Award for Town-Gown Relations in the Partnership Initiative category, underscoring the value of university-community partnerships in developing practical, community-based solutions.

Objectives:

Expected outcomes from this panel include increased awareness of how university-community partnerships can effectively address health disparities, expand access to care, and strengthen recovery support systems for underserved and justice-involved populations. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of collaborative models that integrate public health, behavioral health, peer support, and community-based services to improve long-term treatment and recovery outcomes. The discussion will also provide practical insights into successful initiatives such as the Jail Medication-Assisted Treatment Program, the Peer Internship Project, and Community MAT efforts, demonstrating how cross-sector partnerships can reduce barriers to care, build workforce capacity through lived experience, and create sustainable pathways to recovery and reintegration. Ultimately, participants will gain replicable strategies for building stronger partnerships, aligning resources, and advancing innovative, community-centered solutions that improve both public health and community safety outcomes.

Moderator: Dr. Rebecca E. Sutter, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-C

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. 

Room: Multipurpose Room

Description 

The Health and Human Safety Simulation demonstrates the County’s coordinated response strategies that strengthen community safety through coordinated, cross-sector responses that address the underlying health and social determinants of safety. 

The exercise is designed to demonstrate to the audience how health, housing, behavioral health, and social determinants directly influence public safety outcomes and emergency system utilization, while highlighting the innovative response strategies PWC County employs to support the community.  

The simulation models a coordinated, cross-agency response framework that moves the County from referral-based systems to an integrated, accountable, coordinated response. 

The Office of Community Safety supports inter-agency coordination through systems-based strategies and collaborative initiatives that support a seamless County system in which every resident, regardless of vulnerability, can enter through any agency and receive coordinated, trauma-informed, and stabilized support without navigating complex systems alone. 

Objectives:

The Health and Human Safety Simulation is designed to demonstrate the County’s coordinated, cross-sector response strategies that strengthen community safety by addressing the underlying health and social determinants that drive risk, instability, and system involvement. 

Through this exercise, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how factors such as housing instability, behavioral health needs, and access to essential services directly impact public safety outcomes and emergency system utilization. The simulation highlights how Prince William County is advancing innovative, person-centered response strategies that better support individuals and families in crisis. 

The simulation further illustrates a shift from traditional, referral-based service models to an integrated, accountable, and coordinated system of care. By modeling real-time collaboration across agencies, the exercise demonstrates how a unified response framework can improve outcomes, reduce duplication, and ensure timely, appropriate interventions. 

Participants will also see how the Office of Community Safety facilitates seamless inter-agency coordination through systems-based strategies and collaborative initiatives. This approach ensures that every resident—regardless of need or point of entry—can access a connected network of support that is trauma-informed, responsive, and stabilizing, without the burden of navigating complex systems independently. 

Panelists:

1. Robert Wiencko, Battalion Chief, Department of Fire & Rescue
2. Heather Baxter, Behavioral Health Program Manager , Community Services- Crisis Receiving Center
3. Candice Stancil, Human Services Manager, Department of Social Services
4. Diane Anderson, Population Health Supervisor, Lead Epidemiologist, PW - Virginia Department of Health
5. Heather Martinsen, Mental Health Prevention and Intervention Manager, Community Services
6. Mike Mallon, Clerk of Court Engagement and Logistics Supervisor,  Clerk of Court