“Homeland Security Begins on Your Block”
Community Policing to Reduce Domestic Violence

SYNOPSIS:
This course is designed to explore and implement strategies that reduce domestic violence through community partnerships and problem solving.

OBJECTIVES:
At the completion of this course, the participants will be able to identify stakeholders and apply problem-solving approaches in collaborative efforts to reduce domestic violence.

• Identify the core components of community policing.
• Identify stakeholders and learn to engage the community in Problem Solving.
• Describe the conditions and factors that contribute to domestic violence and identify possible indicators of domestic violence.
• Describe the SARA problem-solving model, and how it can be applied to domestic violence issues, in particular to the issue of Full Faith and Credit.
• List approaches to preventing domestic violence by using collaborative means to address these factors and develop a written action plan using problem solving and collaborative means to:

  • Empower victims,
  • Enhance the coordination of continued victim safety and services,
  • Hold batterers accountable through proper legal means, and
  • Return the batterer to the community.

LENGTH OF PRESENTATION:
8 hours