Description: 

 This training will provide an in-depth review of domestic violence offender treatment with a focus on the requirements of the Standards and best practice modalities and concepts. After a discussion of the differences between traditional psychotherapy and forensic offense specific therapy, this training will cover offender treatment within the context of primary and adjunct interventions, offender contracts, level of offender treatment, core competencies and ways to measure offender progress and discharge criteria. Additionally, this training will incorporate important clinical issues to consider and the importance of the Treatment Victim Advocate throughout the therapeutic process. This training will have case examples and exercises to engage participants and provide tools for practitioners to utilize. 

Trainers:   DVOMB Staff

Description:    This training provides an overview of different types of risk assessment and the importance of utilizing risk assessment practices in the forensic setting. This discussion will include how to distinguish static and dynamic risk factors and why this is important to assessing offender progress. After a review of the research supporting the Risk, Need, Responsivity Principles, participants will review the scoring manual of the Domestic Violence Offender Risk and Needs Assessment (DVRNA). Through this discussion, participates will learn about the supported research for each domain, how each domain is scored, and the development of the DVRNA overtime. The second half of this training will transition to application and participants will review three different case studies and score the DVNRA in a group setting.

Trainers: DVOMB Staff

 

Advanced Series Trainings are offered by the Office of Domestic Violence and Sex Offender Management (ODVSOM) for audiences who work with both domestic violence and sexual offender populations. These trainings are more in-depth, topic specific that are designed to enhance practices and skill development. These trainings are offered periodically throughout the year and can be uses for ODVSOM training credits.

 

The ODVSOM staff are currently looking at trainings for 2018. If you are interested in a particular topic or have a suggestion for a training, please contact the staff.

• Understanding the lethality of strangulation
• Identifying the signs and symptoms of strangulation cases
• Anatomy and medical aspects in surviving and non-surviving victims
• Investigation, documentation, and prosecution of non-fatal
• strangulation cases as felonies, or attempted homicides
• Use of experts and court considerations
• Advocating for victims of strangulation
• Best practices, new resources and next steps

Gael Strack - Gael Strack is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder for Alliance for HOPE International. Prior to launching the Alliance for Hope with Casey Gwinn, Gael served as the Founding Director of the San Diego Family Justice Center from October 2002 through May 2007. In that capacity, she worked closely with 25 on-site agencies (government and non-profit) who came together in 2002 to provide services to victims of domestic violence and their children from one location. The San Diego Family Justice Center was featured on Oprah in January 2003, recognized as a model program by President Bush and was the inspiration for the President's Family Justice Center Initiative launched in Oct 2003. Prior to her work at the Family Justice Center, Gael was a prosecutor at the San Diego City Attorney's Office. She joined the office in 1987 and served in many capacities including Head Deputy City Attorney responsible for the Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Unit. Gael has also worked as a deputy public defender and a deputy county counsel for the San Diego County Counsel's office handling juvenile dependency matters. She graduated from Western State College of Law in December 1985. Gael is a former board member of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, past President of the San Diego Domestic Violence Council and former commissioner of the ABA's Commission on Domestic Violence. In her spare time, Gael is an adjunct law professor for California Western School of Law teaching "Domestic Violence and the Law." Gael has been honored with numerous awards, including San Diego Attorney of the Year for 2006 and most recently by United States Attorney General Eric Holder as the 2010 Recipient of the National Crime Victim Service Award for Professional Innovation in Victim Services. Gael has also co-authored a series of strangulation articles in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, the National College of District Attorney's Practical Prosecutor, and the Journal of the California Dental Association. Gael has co-authored five books with Casey Gwinn, JD, on the Family Justice Center movement including a Guide to Co-Located Services in the Middle East and in Mexico. Gael has also co-authored a book with Judi Adams, called "The Big Girls Club - Little Girl Rules for the Big Girl Workplace" which describes the ten rules of friendship that can help women thrive and succeed in the changing workplace. 

Casey Gwinn - Casey Gwinn, Esq. serves as the President of Alliance for HOPE International. Casey has been recognized by The American Lawyer magazine as one of the top 45 public lawyers in America. He is an honors graduate of Stanford University and UCLA School of Law. Casey served for eight years as the elected City Attorney of San Diego from 1996 to 2004. Prior to entering elected office, Casey founded City Attorney's Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Unit, leading the Unit from 1986 to 1996 - prosecuting both misdemeanor and felony cases. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges honored his specialized prosecution unit as the model prosecution unit in the nation in 1993. In 2002, Casey saw his vision of a comprehensive Center for services to victims of family violence become a reality in San Diego as he led the effort to open the nationally acclaimed San Diego Family Justice Center with professionals from 25 agencies together under one roof. His leadership has been widely credited for the 90% drop in domestic violence homicides in the City of San Diego. In October 2003, President George W. Bush announced a national initiative to begin creating Family Justice Centers across the country and asked Casey to provide leadership to the effort. Today, Casey and his team support more than 100 open and developing Family Justice Centers in the U.S. and around the world. Casey has served on the U.S. Attorney General's National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women and the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence. He chaired the California Attorney General's Task Force on Domestic Violence. He also served on the congressionally created Department of Defense task force, studying the handling of family violence throughout the Department of Defense. He has authored or co-authored a host of articles and media commentaries and nine books on domestic violence and the Family Justice Center movement. The first book entitled "Hope for Hurting Families" calls for the creation of Family Justice Centers across America to help hurting and violent families. His second book, co-authored with Gael Strack, was released in April 2007, "Hope for Hurting Families II: How to Start a Family Justice Center in Your Community. Casey's fourth book, "Dream Big: A Simple, Complicated Idea to Stop Family Violence" was published in 2010. All books are available at www.familyjusticecenter.org. Casey's most recent book, "Cheering For the Children: Creating Pathways to HOPE for Children Exposed to Trauma" is a clarion call to all caring people to become cheerleaders for children exposed to trauma and abuse. In the book explains why childhood trauma should be the preeminent public health issue in America today and how we can all help change the lives of children for the better. This book was the result of one of Casey's great personal passions, Camp HOPE America, the unique camping initiative he founded at the San Diego Family Justice Center that is now expanding across the nation. Camp HOPE America is the first specialized camp in the country focused exclusively on children exposed to domestic violence and child abuse.

Standards Revision Committee:

At the October DVOMB meeting, the Board voted to create a new committee called the Standards Revision Committee. This committee is charged with reviewing Section 4.09 of the Standards and the criteria for recommending alternative treatment options for a court ordered domestic violence offender (i.e., self-defending victim, severe treatment amenability issue) by an approved Domestic Violence Treatment Provider. This committee with identify possible changes Section 4.09 of the Standards and make recommendations to the Board. If you are interested in participating on this committee, please contact Jesse Hansen for more information.  

 

Conference Line: 1-888-740-4219

Enter Pass code: 932451#

DVOMB Meeting	November 3, 2017	9:30AM - 3:30PM	2105 Decatur St, Denver, CO 80211	All Staff
Implementation Science Committee	November 8, 2017	1:30PM - 3:30PM	700 Kipling 3th Floor	Jesse
Victim Advocacy Committee	November 14, 2017	9:30AM - 11:30AM	TBD	Jesse
DV Treatment Provider Committee	November 28, 2017	11:00AM - 1:00PM	Conference Line	Carolina

Note: All DVOMB meetings are open to the public. We encourage you to participate if you have an interest in any of the current projects of the DVOMB.