Community Policing to Reduce Dating Violence

SYNOPSIS:
This course will explore and implement strategies that reduce dating violence through partnerships and problem solving. This training is designed to provide participants with an understanding of factors contributing to dating violence and the skills to identify types of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Participants will learn how to identify factors that impact victim safety, survival skills and options for victims, and methods of offender accountability.

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 dating violence and identify possible indicators of dating violence.
• Describe the SARA problem-solving model, and how it can be applied to dating 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:
4 or 8 hours