Probation and Parole Officer Training: Victim-Centered Supervision
$150.00
Title: Victim-Centered Supervision: Enhancing Accountability and Safety in Domestic Violence Cases
STC# 08189098
Enhance your skills in supervising domestic violence offenders in this interactive, 8-hour virtual workshop. Learn strategies to balance offender accountability with victim safety, assess risk using evidence-based tools, and coordinate with intervention programs for effective supervision.
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This 8-hr, interactive, virtual workshop will address the unique issues for officers supervising domestic violence offenders, specifically how to enhance offender accountability while considering the safety of victims and practicing officer safety protocols. Attendees will evaluate tools to assess victim risk within the dynamics of domestic violence and coercive control. Strategies will be reviewed and critiqued which integrate a victim-centered approach in offender supervision. Attendees will be equipped with tools and collaborative resources to increase their knowledge and competence as they supervise domestic violence cases.
Attendees will:
- Define, discuss and explain the dynamics of domestic violence and coercive control and during a guided group discussion.
- Review victim’s rights and confidentiality statutes to determine what may or may not be shared with victims when balancing offender accountability with victim safety concerns.
- Evaluate the Danger Assessment and Domestic Violence Screening instrument to consider offender risk level using a victim-centered approach.
- Review a sample case and apply two monitoring strategies, based on guided group discussions, to increase offender accountability while considering a victim-centered approach.
- Identify strategies to coordinate with abuser intervention programs (AIP’s/BIP’s) to assess offender compliance and positive behavior change
- Identify officer safety issues and, in guided group discussions, consider best practice strategies when supervising DV offenders in particular.
Details:
Day: May 14, 2025 - Wednesday
Time: 8am-5pm (PST)
Cost: $150
Format: Online-Link provided upon registration.
Instructor:
Nada Yorke, LCSW, owner of Yorke Consulting has over forty years working in the criminal justice system as a probation officer, victim advocate, and domestic violence expert witness. She provides training for law enforcement, advocates, therapists, and court personnel about the value of working with offenders to stop the cycle of violence. She provides basic and advanced training for probation officers and abuser intervention providers. Ms. Yorke’s research results from a prison program and subsequent community program have both been published in The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. She created batterer intervention curriculum in both men’s and women’s editions and recently released a youth curriculum to help adolescents develop “healthy relationships for life”.
Ms. Yorke is a certified STC (#07099) provider for the California Board of State and Community Corrections and approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7564)
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