VCS
Community Change Project presents
A National Training Institute
NY Model for Batterer Programs: Focused on How Courts and Batterer Programs
Can Clarify and Strengthen Offender Accountability
Monday, May 24, 2010 through Tuesday,
25, May 2010
VCS Inc
77 South Main Street
New City, NY 10956
Training Location: Rockland Family Shelter, Administrative Office, 9 Johnsons Lane, New City, NY 10956
(Lodging available at the Best Western, 26 Route 59,
Nyack, NY 10960 (6.5 miles) or Candlewood Suites,
20 Overlook Blvd, Nanuet, NY 10954 (3.23 miles). Reservations
on
your own.
Registration Cost **Special Price for All**
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$125 per person |
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One-Day Fee: |
$75 per person |
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To send
registration payment by fax or mail, please click
here
To register over the phone, or for more info, call:
VCS Community Change Project: (845) 634-5729; Outside
NYS: 1-800-634-7540
Background & Focus
of the NY Model for Batterer Programs
For more than 30 years, VCS Inc. has been a leader in the on-going development of batterer programs and other issues related to domestic violence offender accountability. Based on this, The NY Model for Batterer Programs was created to inform batterer programs of a role they can play in a coordinated, criminal justice response to domestic violence.
NY Model batterer programs provide a service to Courts that handle domestic abuse cases. Ordered as a sanction or penalty, NY model programs add to the Court’s range of offender accountability mechanisms and to the Court’s provision of judicial monitoring. The Courts that utilize the NY Model agree to uniform enforcement of orders to batterer programs while programs agree to uniform enforcement of reasonable program policies, procedures and reporting measures. Program participants have an opportunity to comply with the court’s order to attend a batterer program. Measurable outcomes support the efficacy of NY Model batterer programs.
Who Should Attend
The training is designed for designed for judges, court clerks and other court personnel, probation and parole officers, prosecutors, defense bar, and domestic violence advocates. This training is especially useful for those who work in batterer programs and those who work with domestic violence offenders in other venues.
Training Topics
Segments Include:
Day 1 |
Comparison of three batterer program models: 1) treatment 2) accountability and treatment combined 3) accountability. Presented by Dr. Sue Parry, NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. |
Day 1 |
Batterer program research . . . what does it tell us? Presented by Melissa Labriola, Principal Research Associate, Center for Court Innovations, NYC, Dr. Chris O'Sullivan, Research Consultant, NYC |
Day 1&2 |
Court utilization of NY Model batterer programs as an accountability and monitoring mechanism for referred participants |
Day 1&2 |
Overview of NY Model batterer programs. Presented by Phyllis B. Frank, VCS Inc., Rockland County, NY, Juan Ramos, Safe Horizon, NYC |
Day 1&2 |
Clarification of courts responsibility to hold offenders accountable for acts of domestic violence |
Day 1&2 |
Accountability mechanisms that batterer programs can employ to hold participants "accountable," including policy, practice and setting and maintaining limits |
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How to infuse anti-racist, economic justice, and other anti-oppression principles into the delivery of NY Model for Batterer Programs material |
Day 2 |
Demonstrations of registration, program session, and staff development
(staff training) |
Day 2 |
Responding to sexist, racist, heterosexist and other belligerent or otherwise inappropriate comments and behaviors |
Institute Co-Directors
Phyllis B. Frank: Founding Director, VCS Community
Change Project; Co-founder, Past Pres., NYS Coalition Against Domestic
Violence
Gregory R. White: Director Domestic Violence Program for Men, Catholic
Charities of Buffalo, NY
Schedule
Monday, May 24, 2010
Check-in begins at 9:00 am
Session 1: 9:30 - 11:00 am
Session 2: 11:30 - 1:00 pm
Lunch
Session 3: 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Session 4: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Session 5: 9:00 - 10:30 am
Session 6: 11:00 - 12:30 pm
Lunch
Session 7: 1:30 - 3:30 pm
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