NATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTES
ATTENTION - NYS SOCIAL WORKERS: NYS Education Department approved
9 CEU Contact Hours for Licensed Social Workers:
ATTENTION - ADDICTION & PREVENTION SPECIALISTS
Earn 9 CASAC, CPP, CPS Clock Hours
Fee: $125 per person
Buffalo, NY: TBA
Training Location:
Special Guest: TBA
For more information email gregory.white@ccwny.org or call 716 896-6390
Rockland County, NY:
Thursday October 26, 2017
Friday October 27, 2017
Hotel Accommodations: Reservations on your own: Best Western, 26 Route 59, Nyack, NY 10960 (6.5 mi), 845 358-8100 OR Candlewood Suites, 20 Overlook Blvd, Nanuet, NY 10954 (3.3 mi), 877 660-8543 or The Time Nyack, 400 High Ave, Nyack, NY 10960 (6.5 mi), (845) 675-8700
For more information email pbfrank@vcs-inc.org or call 845 634-5729 x312
9 CEU Contact Hours for Licensed Social Workers:
ATTENTION - ADDICTION & PREVENTION SPECIALISTS
Earn 9 CASAC, CPP, CPS Clock Hours
Fee: $125 per person
Buffalo, NY: TBA
Training Location:
Special Guest: TBA
For more information email gregory.white@ccwny.org or call 716 896-6390
Rockland County, NY:
Thursday October 26, 2017
Friday October 27, 2017
- Rockland County Court House, District Attorney Office, 1 South Main Street, New City, NY 10956 (Thurs.)
- Center for Safety and Change, Administrative Office, 9 Johnsons Lane, New City, NY 10956 (Fri.)
Hotel Accommodations: Reservations on your own: Best Western, 26 Route 59, Nyack, NY 10960 (6.5 mi), 845 358-8100 OR Candlewood Suites, 20 Overlook Blvd, Nanuet, NY 10954 (3.3 mi), 877 660-8543 or The Time Nyack, 400 High Ave, Nyack, NY 10960 (6.5 mi), (845) 675-8700
For more information email pbfrank@vcs-inc.org or call 845 634-5729 x312
Rockland Schedule and Tentative Agenda:
Day 1
Check-in begins at 9:00 am
9:30 - 11:00 am: Welcome, Introductions, Definitions (domestic violence, offender accountability, etc.)
11:30 - 1:00 pm: Overview of the NY Model for Batterer Programs; Can men change? Reasonable expectations
Lunch
2 - 3:30 pm: Guest Presentation by Barry Goldstein: What Works and What Doesn't
The modern movement to end domestic violence started at a time when no research was available and authorities did not understand the importance of listening to women. Understandably many ineffective practices developed. We now have research from the most credible sources. We know that exposure to domestic violence is far more harmful than previously understood for women and children in the home. Children live shorter lives with more health and other problems because of our tolerance for men's abuse of women. At the same time we know how to dramatically reduce DV crime based on practices that worked in communities like Quincy, Nashville and San Diego. Practices that work are based on accountability, monitoring, a coordinated community response, making it easier for victims to leave and basically taking DV more seriously. Now, many professionals in positions of power don't use current scientific research and still don't listen to women.
The result is widespread use of outdated and discredited practices that allow DV to continue. Even worse, organizations that promote abuser rights and professionals who make large incomes helping abusers maintain strong influence over any efforts to reform failed responses. They promote myths that men are victims about as often as women; that women often lie about abuse and that children need safe mothers and abusive fathers equally. We see failed responses to horrific DV crimes that include mental health treatment; substance abuse treatment, batterer programs that falsely claim to change men's behavior and leniency. The result is that progress that had reduced domestic violence and particularly murders has stopped and the United States now spends over one trillion dollars every year to tolerate men's abuse of women.
A NY Model Batterer Program will not prevent DV and is a small part of the work to end domestic violence. What it does provide is a consequence courts can use for crimes that cannot lead to a jail cell. By not making irresponsible promises the NY Model seeks to avoid practices that would undermine women's safety. We can dramatically reduce DV crime but that will require taking DV far more seriously and implementing the proven practices from the Quincy Solution.
Day 2
9:30 – 11:00 am Accountability mechanisms used in NY Model batterer programs, Accountability mechanisms useful for alcoholism and other drug dependence programs, parole, probation, etc. in dealing with domestic violence offenders, Risk assessment discussion
11:30 – 1:00 pm Role of instructors, facilitators in NY Model batterer programs, including setting limits and delivering curriculum material. Demonstration of registration, session and staff development (training)
Lunch
2 - 3:30 pm Clarification, Q & A, Check out, Evaluations, Attendance Certificates
Background & Focus of the NY Model for Batterer Programs
In 1978, VCS Inc. developed the first batterer program in New York. Ten years later, VCS partnered with Catholic Charities of Buffalo NY to best resolve controversy generated by batterer programs regarding their purpose. Are programs appropriate as treatment and rehabilitation or best used for accountability and monitoring? Can they achieve both? By listening to the collective wisdom of battered women’s advocates locally and across the country, the NY Model for Batterer Programs was developed. This clear and replicable design, consistently updated, contributes to the efforts to eliminate and prevent domestic violence. Measurable outcomes support the efficacy of NY Model Batterer Programs.
Who Should Attend
The training is designed for judges, court clerks and other court personnel, probation and parole officers, prosecutors, defense bar, and domestic violence advocates. This training is also useful for those who work in batterer programs and with domestic violence offenders in other venues. Social Workers and CASAC and CPP professionals are especially invited and will hear invaluable information that will inform their practice .
Institute Co-Directors and Institute Faculty
Phyllis B. Frank: Founding Director, VCS Domestic Violence Program for Men; Co-founder, Past Pres., NYS Coalition Against Domestic Violence;
Gregory R. White: Director, Domestic Violence Program for Men, Catholic Charities of Buffalo, NY;
Vanessa Green, Susanne Fitzpatrick, Darla Salmon, VCS Inc., Rockland County, NY; Michael Rempel, Director of Research, Center for Court Innovation, NYC; Dr. Chris O'Sullivan, Evaluation and Research Consultant, NYC;
Barry Goldstein, Guest Faculty, is a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate. He is the author of five books including The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion. Barry has worked as an instructor in the NY Model Batterer Program since 1999. He is Research Director for the Stop Abuse Campaign and Co-Chair of the NOMAS Child Custody Task Group. Barry is a leader in the work to reform the broken custody court system. Barry Goldstein has worked in the movement to end domestic violence since 1983 and started by listening to women.
To register for Rockland over the phone, or for more info, call: VCS: (845) 634-5729 x 312
Day 1
Check-in begins at 9:00 am
9:30 - 11:00 am: Welcome, Introductions, Definitions (domestic violence, offender accountability, etc.)
11:30 - 1:00 pm: Overview of the NY Model for Batterer Programs; Can men change? Reasonable expectations
Lunch
2 - 3:30 pm: Guest Presentation by Barry Goldstein: What Works and What Doesn't
The modern movement to end domestic violence started at a time when no research was available and authorities did not understand the importance of listening to women. Understandably many ineffective practices developed. We now have research from the most credible sources. We know that exposure to domestic violence is far more harmful than previously understood for women and children in the home. Children live shorter lives with more health and other problems because of our tolerance for men's abuse of women. At the same time we know how to dramatically reduce DV crime based on practices that worked in communities like Quincy, Nashville and San Diego. Practices that work are based on accountability, monitoring, a coordinated community response, making it easier for victims to leave and basically taking DV more seriously. Now, many professionals in positions of power don't use current scientific research and still don't listen to women.
The result is widespread use of outdated and discredited practices that allow DV to continue. Even worse, organizations that promote abuser rights and professionals who make large incomes helping abusers maintain strong influence over any efforts to reform failed responses. They promote myths that men are victims about as often as women; that women often lie about abuse and that children need safe mothers and abusive fathers equally. We see failed responses to horrific DV crimes that include mental health treatment; substance abuse treatment, batterer programs that falsely claim to change men's behavior and leniency. The result is that progress that had reduced domestic violence and particularly murders has stopped and the United States now spends over one trillion dollars every year to tolerate men's abuse of women.
A NY Model Batterer Program will not prevent DV and is a small part of the work to end domestic violence. What it does provide is a consequence courts can use for crimes that cannot lead to a jail cell. By not making irresponsible promises the NY Model seeks to avoid practices that would undermine women's safety. We can dramatically reduce DV crime but that will require taking DV far more seriously and implementing the proven practices from the Quincy Solution.
Day 2
9:30 – 11:00 am Accountability mechanisms used in NY Model batterer programs, Accountability mechanisms useful for alcoholism and other drug dependence programs, parole, probation, etc. in dealing with domestic violence offenders, Risk assessment discussion
11:30 – 1:00 pm Role of instructors, facilitators in NY Model batterer programs, including setting limits and delivering curriculum material. Demonstration of registration, session and staff development (training)
Lunch
2 - 3:30 pm Clarification, Q & A, Check out, Evaluations, Attendance Certificates
Background & Focus of the NY Model for Batterer Programs
In 1978, VCS Inc. developed the first batterer program in New York. Ten years later, VCS partnered with Catholic Charities of Buffalo NY to best resolve controversy generated by batterer programs regarding their purpose. Are programs appropriate as treatment and rehabilitation or best used for accountability and monitoring? Can they achieve both? By listening to the collective wisdom of battered women’s advocates locally and across the country, the NY Model for Batterer Programs was developed. This clear and replicable design, consistently updated, contributes to the efforts to eliminate and prevent domestic violence. Measurable outcomes support the efficacy of NY Model Batterer Programs.
Who Should Attend
The training is designed for judges, court clerks and other court personnel, probation and parole officers, prosecutors, defense bar, and domestic violence advocates. This training is also useful for those who work in batterer programs and with domestic violence offenders in other venues. Social Workers and CASAC and CPP professionals are especially invited and will hear invaluable information that will inform their practice .
Institute Co-Directors and Institute Faculty
Phyllis B. Frank: Founding Director, VCS Domestic Violence Program for Men; Co-founder, Past Pres., NYS Coalition Against Domestic Violence;
Gregory R. White: Director, Domestic Violence Program for Men, Catholic Charities of Buffalo, NY;
Vanessa Green, Susanne Fitzpatrick, Darla Salmon, VCS Inc., Rockland County, NY; Michael Rempel, Director of Research, Center for Court Innovation, NYC; Dr. Chris O'Sullivan, Evaluation and Research Consultant, NYC;
Barry Goldstein, Guest Faculty, is a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate. He is the author of five books including The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion. Barry has worked as an instructor in the NY Model Batterer Program since 1999. He is Research Director for the Stop Abuse Campaign and Co-Chair of the NOMAS Child Custody Task Group. Barry is a leader in the work to reform the broken custody court system. Barry Goldstein has worked in the movement to end domestic violence since 1983 and started by listening to women.
To register for Rockland over the phone, or for more info, call: VCS: (845) 634-5729 x 312
For information about workshops, training or technical assistance, on domestic violence offenders, batterer programs or related issues, tailored to meet the needs of your organization, please contact us.
VCS Inc.
Tel: (845) 634-5729 x312
Email: nymbp@vcs-inc.org
VCS Inc.
Tel: (845) 634-5729 x312
Email: nymbp@vcs-inc.org
