JCVVS Newsletter
October 2006
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Professional Certificate in Victim Assistance: Critical Analysis |
The JCVVS Professional Certificate in Victim
Assistance: Critical Analysis was recently
awarded to seven individuals. As a condition for the
professional certificate, applicants must demonstrate
contribution to the profession by writing and
presenting on a topic of critical analysis. The
following is the list of recent awardees and the title
of their professional analysis
papers/presentations:
- Dick Royce: Exploring a Future Solution in the
Battle Against Domestic Violence
- Mary Alice Ewart: Domestic Violence Offender
Gun Ban
- Kimberly Koch: Sex Offenders and Their
Victims
- Ginny Chidsey: Responding to Vulnerable
Populations from an Organizational Perspective: An
Individual Case Study
- Abby Resch: Community-Oriented Policing
Practices Impact on Victim Services
- Sean Brazzale: Professional Associations in
Victim Assistance Considerations and
Recommendations for Wyoming
- Angela McGraw: Transforming Anger: A
Positive
Approach for Individuals Exposed to Violence.
The next public offering of the program
is November 14-16, 2006 at Washburn University.
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Wyoming Victim Services Conference |
The JCVVS was involved in the 8th annual
Wyoming Victim Services Conference held September
11-13. Thomas Underwood and Steve Walker
facilitated the pre-conference presentations by six
victim assistance professionals for the
Professional Certificate in Victim Assistance:
Critical Analysis.
A discussion entitled
Developing a Professional Association: Tasks,
Time, and Turf was also facilitated for service
providers. Thomas Underwood offered a workshop
Gaps in Professional Knowledge, Skills and
Abilities: Assessing Equivalencies of Education and
Experience and Steve Walker offered a workshop
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll, which
addressed
relationships and intervention of substance use and
post-victimization.
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Foundations in Victim Services offered to Oklahoma |
The Oklahoma District Attorney's Council contracted
with the JCVVS to offer the course Foundations in
Victim Services. Based on the National Victim
Assistance Academy offered by the JCVVS the past
several years, the course addresses the fundamental
knowledge and skills of victim rights and
services.
Participant Jill Melrose, of the Jim
Taliaferro Community Mental Health Center, offered
the testimonial, "I really learned so much information
that I didn't know I didn't know." And YWCA of
Oklahoma City staff Carole Gore and Deb Stanaland
evaluated the course as "Very thorough. Instructors
were more then great!"
The DA's Council
plans to contract with the JCVVS in the future for
the foundation program and for the Critical
Analysis
of Victim Assistance course.
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