Are SWGIT Meetings Conducted like Workshops or Training Events?
No. It is common that non-members anticipate that the SWGIT meetings are in the form of a workshop or forensic conference. Forensic workshops or conferences are training events meant to provide the participants with practical skills, cutting edge information, or research that they can take back to the work environment. These types of events focus on the learner, and special attention is paid to the needs of the incoming learner. SWGIT meetings are different from workshops and conferences. We do not place our meeting focus on the incoming learner. The SWGIT meeting takes place in a community-centered environment. Our group members are highly trained professionals from the criminal justice community and are there to provide their expertise, knowledge, and training toward specifically stated goals. Each SWGIT meeting is composed of multiple work sessions that are tasked to complete a goal within a certain time frame. The focus, therefore, of the SWGIT meeting is not incoming learners or g
