This training is now open to all and is free of charge.
Date: June 16 - 17, 2015
Location: New Orleans, LA
Teaching Objectives: This training conference is intended for members of domestic violence teams who are recipients of OVW GRANTS, including police officers, dispatchers, victim advocates, probation officers, prosecutors, batterer intervention program staff, and child welfare workers. The teaching objectives are to give participants up-to-date information and perspective about risk markers for domestic homicides and serious assaults, and to help identify more comprehensive and safe practices for assessing danger, protecting victims, and monitoring batterers.
Faculty and Guest Speakers: The faculty includes David Adams of Emerge, Stephanie Avalon of the Battered Women's Justice Project, Kelly Dunne and Detective Robert Wile of the Greater Newburyport High Risk Team, Lt. Jon Tiplady (ret.) of the Danvers Police Department and currently instructor in Criminal Justice at Salem State University, Rebecca Dreke of the Stalking Resource Center, Nancy Halverson of Hennepin County Community Corrections, and Courtney Cahill of the Bristol County District Attorney's Office, and Diane Coffey, Victim Service Coordinator, MA Office of Parole.
There will be a wide range of experienced Guest Speakers representing model practices for danger assessment and victim-safety planning established by police, prosecutors, judges, probation, batterers intervention programs, and child welfare.
Each participant will receive a training packet of danger assessment tools and guidelines, as well as an interactive training DVD entitled, Domestic Violence Danger Assessment and Safety Planning, produced by EMERGE with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice. The training is free of charge but you must pay your own transportation, hotel and per diem costs.
Registration:
- Arrest (GTEAP) Grantees, you must use your OVW-issued grant number to register for this training.
- All Other OVW Grantees and non-grantees, please use this number to register: 2010-WEAX-1933 (Other OVW Grantees must check with their OVW Grant Manager to approve travel funding to cover this conference).
There is no registration fee to attend this training. Participants are responsible for their own airfare, meals and lodging. The hotel is the Omni Royal Orleans and lodging expenses are at the Government Per Diem rate of $151.00, plus 13% tax, and $3.00 per room per night city assessment fee, for single or double occupancy per night. Hotel information and how to make a reservation is included in your confirmation once you register. Check your junk email box!
For questions please email David Adams at
dadams9@aol.com .
Important:
You will receive a confirmation upon completion of your registration to the email address you submit on your registration form. This confirmation includes instructions and deadlines for making your hotel reservations. If you do NOT receive this confirmation (check your junk mail) please contact Jeanne Larson and she will send you a copy. Thank you!
A training conducted by the Office on Violence against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, in partnership with EMERGE, Inc.