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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1203.097/1203.098 TRAINING STC APPROVED

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Join our comprehensive Domestic Violence 1203.097/1203.098 Training, designed for professionals who want to become certified facilitators, officers who need STC-Approved training and want to gain valuable insights to enhance their work, and BIP providers who need to meet the mandated 16 CEU requirement of court-mandated domestic violence training.

This comprehensive 40-hour training is STC-approved and structured into 10 individual modules that can be attended as a complete program or individual modules. 

Key Features of the Training:

  • Instructor-Led: The course is facilitated by experienced trainers with extensive knowledge of domestic violence intervention.

  • Interactive: Engage in hands-on activities, group discussions, and role-playing scenarios to enhance your understanding of real-world application.

  • Comprehensive: The training includes 40 hours of in-depth learning, covering legal requirements, effective intervention techniques, group dynamics, and strategies for fostering accountability and change.

Current Training:

  • Fridays 10am-12pm, PST.

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your professional development and make a meaningful impact. For more information or to register, reach out to us directly!

Register HERE

Or email support@commitment2change.com

 

Mending Broken Connections Live Workshop

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Every relationship faces challenges, but when misunderstandings, conflict, and emotional distance become overwhelming, it can feel like the connection is slipping away. The Mending Broken Connections workshop is designed to help couples and individuals navigate these struggles with practical tools and compassionate guidance. Whether you’re looking to rebuild trust, improve communication, or restore the love and respect in your relationship, this workshop provides the support and strategies needed to create lasting change.

What You’ll Gain:

✅ Effective Communication Skills – Learn how to express your needs and listen with empathy.
✅ Conflict Resolution Strategies – Discover ways to break negative cycles and resolve disagreements constructively.
✅ Rebuilding Trust & Intimacy – Develop techniques to restore emotional connection and deepen your bond.
✅ Letting Go of Power Struggles – Focus on mutual respect, shared values, and positive interactions.

Who Should Attend?

  • Couples looking to strengthen their relationship.

  • Individuals wanting to improve communication and connection.

  • Anyone seeking to rebuild trust and restore emotional closeness.

Find Renewal and Reconnection in Your Relationship

Relationships can face challenges that leave you feeling disconnected and overwhelmed. The stress of managing daily responsibilities, meeting expectations, and navigating communication struggles can strain even the strongest partnerships.

Mending Broken Connections is here to guide you back to a place of understanding and harmony. This transformative program equips you with practical tools and proven strategies to:

  • Reduce Arguments and Misunderstandings: Communicate more effectively and avoid common conflicts.

  • Restore Shared Values and Loving Feelings: Reignite the bond that brought you together.

  • Let Go of Power Struggles: Shift focus to what truly matters—love, respect, and teamwork.

Don’t let the challenges of the past linger. This is your chance to rebuild trust, strengthen your relationship, and move forward with renewed hope and connection.

Take the first step toward a stronger, happier partnership.

For more information or to register, visit [website link] or contact us at [contact info].

Rekindle. Restore. Reconnect.

Register HERE

We had an amazing turnout and insightful conversations. If you missed it, check out the online program HERE

Mending Broken Connections Workshop Flyer

Advanced BIP Training

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Advanced Training in Batterer Intervention

For Social Workers, Psychologists, MFTs, LPCs,
and Others Who Conduct BIP Groups

Saturday, November 2, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 3 p.m.
on the Zoom Platform

Presented by John Hamel

Completion of a Batterer Intervention Program (BIP), primarily offered in the psycho-educational group format, is mandated throughout the United States for men and women who have pled guilty to a domestic violence offense. In this special, live 5-hour training, John Hamel shares with you more than 30 years of research and clinical experience, having conducted or supervised hundreds of BIP groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Topics include:

  • BIPs and the criminal justice response to domestic violence
  • Early theories on best practices and what went wrong
  • Domestic violence as a complex problem and offenders as heterogeneous population
  • Lessons from research on psychotherapy outcome studies
  • Identifying what works rather than what is the best theory
  • Findings from The North Amrican Survey of BIP facilitators
  • Essential components of a group curriculum
  • Focus groups: Offenders and group facilitators share their experiences
  • Facilitating groups: What works
  • Keeping offenders and providers accountable

5 Hours CEUs Available

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

New Webinar August 29th

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Public Policy Exchange will be hosting a webinar on Tackling Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence in the United States: Creating strategies that promote social change and protection for victims which will take place on Thursday, August 29th 2024 from 9:30 AM — 1:00 PM PST.

I wanted to get in touch as I felt this is a topic that could be relevant for you and your colleagues.

Can you please confirm if you or your colleagues would like to attend this webinar. If you are interested to attend, please fill in your details in the attached registration form and send it back to me and I will do the rest. Alternatively, please click here to register online.

Confirmed Speakers

  • Chelsea Lee Byers, Vice-Mayor of West Hollywood, California; Director of Programs and Partnership, Women’s Voices Now
  • Ani Zonneveld, Founder, Muslims for Progressive Values
  • Dr. Don Dutton, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Psychology.
  • Jennifer Rodriguez, Program Director, Florida Department of Children and Families
  • Timothy Cordova, Police officer, Los Angeles Police Department
  • Diana Dominguez, Domestic violence advocate, Domestic Abuse Response Team

Programme  

  • Analyze existing intimate partner and domestic violence policies and uncover any lack of inclusion.
  • Discuss the lack of services provided for those in the LGBTQ+ community and lack of shelters for survivors based on sexual identity or orientation.
  • Learn ways that healthcare workers might receive more policy awareness, education, and resources to help victims.
  • Analyze current violence awareness campaigns and programs in schools and discuss ways to improve the level of prevention awareness among the youth.
  • Discuss ways that lower-income communities and minority groups can attain access to services for victim and prevention awareness programs.
  • Look at the impact that statistics in domestic violence have on implementing new legislative policies that have consequences for perpetrators.

Upcoming IVAT San Diego Conference

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I wanted to let everyone who may not already know about the upcoming IVAT conference in San Diego, from August 28 to August 28:

29th San Diego International Summit on Violence, Abuse and Trauma Across the Lifespan:
Working Together to Promote Well-being   

You can find out more about this year’s events by going to:

I have attended, and presented at, this conference many times over the years, and it is usually well worth attending.

 

REGISTER NOW FOR THE 2024 CONFERENCE!

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ADVIP Members:

Our next conference is less than two months away, on June 14, so you may want to register sooner than later, and please tell your friends and colleagues!  This year, the focus will be on domestic violence around the world, including prevalence rates, risk factors, and consequences for victims, as well as the BIP and other intervention strategies used outside the United States.

The conference will take place on the Zoom platform, beginning at 8 a.m. U.S. Pacific Standard Time.

To register, just go to the ADVIP home page and click on the link:  www.domesticviolenceintervention.net

 

2024 ADVIP WORLD CONFERENCE

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I wanted to let all ADVIP members know ahead of the formal marketing campaign that this year’s conference will be held on Friday, June 14.  The theme of this event is “Domestic violence worldwide:  Prevalence, causes, consequences, and treatment.”  I will be one of the contributing presenters, giving an overview of best practices in batterer intervention, after which my colleague Esteban Esquivel-Santovena and his team will present on what is happening in the DV field outside the United States, Canada and the U.K., with an overview of Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.  These presentations are based on recent scholarly research to be included in the latest update of the Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project, the world’s largest single free-access data base of information about domestic violence.

As with our previous conferences, there will be a registration discount for ADVIP members.

Virtual Roundtable

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On October 27, I hosted our latest semi-annual ADVIP meeting, via the Zoom platform, and also presented a seminar, “Applying Lisa Feldman Barrett’s Theory of Emotions to Batterer Intervention.

As I discussed with those in attendance, our organization now has over 300 members, in 21 countries around the world, and our recent meeting was joined by three members from outside the United States.  I continue to manage, with my IT person, Eric Bobrow, the ADVIP website, and am willing to do so indefinitely.  It is my pleasure to do my part to advance evidence-based practice, with the goal of further reducing domestic violence around the world.

I propose that our next full conference, which would be our 5th since 2016, be held at some time either in latte spring or early summer, 2024.  Once again, it will be a virtual conference, held on the Zoom platform.  Please let me know if have suggestions for topics to be covered.  These topics should focus on intervention policies, research and/or clinical applications, as well as more general research related to the causes, dynamics, and consequences of domestic violence.

I notice that there has been a drop-off of posts on our blog pages recently.  By all means, please take advantage of this means of communicating with your fellow ADVIP members!  In particular, I would like to see more reports from the various states, as well as from countries outside the U.S., regarding current or proposed policies on DV, new legislation, or emerging programs.  I would also like to know if any of you have read any new books on DV that you recommend, or new research pertaining to batterer intervention.

To post something to the blog, you need to go to the ADVIP home page an click on the link.  Let me know if you have any problems doing so.  The default password is evidence12, unless you have changed it.

Assistant Professor Position Available

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John Jay College of Criminal Justice is inviting applications for an assistant professor position, beginning in the fall of 2024, to join the department of criminal justice and to support a new concentration in the science and practice of public safety. The position will be a central part of designing, launching, and teaching a new research and teaching focus in evidence-based public safety, with initial offerings at the master’s level. Attached is a position description with more information. The closing date for the position is November 10, 2023.

Emily Madray

Administrative Assistant

Criminal Justice B.A. Department

Tel: 212.621.3759

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