This series of webinars on responses to intimate partner violence was designed for professionals working in the justice system.
Know Your Audience: Choosing the Best Learning Activities for Your Training
Trainings often incorporate a variety of topics and choosing the best learning activity for each session can be a challenge. Your training will be more responsive to the needs of participants by incorporating a variety of learning styles through activities that are appropriate, dynamic, and interactive. This webinar focuses on how you can design engaging learning activities for a successful training program. As a result of this webinar, participants are able to distinguish between the four adult learning styles; design interactive learning activities that respond to the training topic and learning objectives; and identify opportunities for using supplemental training resources.
Is This On? Nuts and Bolts of Remote Hearings and Domestic Violence Considerations
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This webinar showcases three different court experiences transitioning to remote hearings to continue court operations and provide access to justice during the Covid-19 pandemic. The moderated conversation focuses on safety considerations in handling domestic violence cases. Presenters also describe the platform they use, how they set it up, and what they learned thus far in hosting remote hearings from rural, mid-size, and urban perspectives. Finally, presenters deliberate over what is needed in the coming months and using those lessons for long term access and emergency preparedness for our judicial and court community.
Recorded May 12, 2020, 60 min, captioned.
Remote Orders of Protection in Criminal and Civil Cases Involving Intimate Partner Violence and Animal Abuse
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Courts and communities across the country are doing their best to respond to the evolving COVID-19 crisis. Amid mandatory stay at home orders and rising rates of intimate partner violence and animal abuse, access to criminal no contact orders and civil orders of protection are more important than ever. Hear from three jurisdictions who have rapidly moved to implement remote access to criminal no contact orders and civil orders of protection in King County, Washington; Miami-Dade County, Florida; and Winnebago County, Illinois. Speakers shared their challenges and successes in implementation and lessons learned for other jurisdictions.
Recorded May 15, 2020, 60 min.
Strengthening Offender Accountability and Intervention in Rural and Tribal Communities
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As rural and tribal communities across the country work to enhance their response to domestic violence, they are exploring new ways to increase offender accountability and intervention. While barriers to access exist everywhere, they are acutely felt in rural and tribal communities. Important access considerations include: transportation, community resources and capacity, language alternatives, and tribal-specific programming. This webinar provides practical strategies for rural and tribal communities to address common access barriers in enhancing offender accountability. Strategies include the use of technology in providing services and the unique safety considerations that accompany them.
Comprehensive Assessment in Abusive Partner Intervention Work
Over the years, research has emphasized the importance of implementing a risk-needs approach when working with general offender populations, wherein programming responds to both the risks and needs of each offender. When it comes to domestic violence offenders, most communities have only one level of community-based abusive partner intervention program and often struggle to address offenders' many needs including past trauma, parenting after violence skills, employment barriers, substance use, and lack of hope. Comprehensive assessment strategies can incorporate questions about hope and past trauma and address these issues in turn. Presenters, Cheryl Davis, formerly of the Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board, and Terri Strodthoff, Executive Director of the Alma Center, will share promising practices related to utilizing comprehensive assessment strategies to inform abusive partner intervention programming. They will also address emerging strategies for comprehensive assessment in light of COVID-19.
Recorded June 9, 2020, 90 min, captioned.
Keeping Your Courthouse Safe: Domestic Violence & Court Security
Domestic violence cases are often described by judges and court staff as having one of the highest potentials for violence in and around the courthouse. While courts may implement general court security best practices, domestic violence cases present uniquely dangerous risks towards courthouse safety, for both litigants and court staff. Through this webinar, the Center for Court Innovation and the National Center for State Courts discuss the specific safety concerns with domestic violence cases, as well as practical strategies and lessons from the field for maintaining a secure courthouse environment. As a result of this webinar, participants are able to identify foundational security considerations in domestic violence cases, describe practical strategies for courthouse safety when cases involve domestic violence and apply them to their individual jurisdiction.