JCVVS Newsletter
September 2006
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Media Relations in Victim Assistance |
The professional education course Media Relations
in Victim Assistance is scheduled for October 26-
27 in Savannah, Georgia. Helen Bradley, Director of
the Chatham County, GA, Victim-Witness Assistance
Program in District Attorney Spencer Lawton's Office
and former newspaper reporter, developed the
course
for the JCVVS along with the late Ed
Stout.
The course provides practical
information and activities to enhance knowledge and
skills for practitioners to work with the media in
response to victimization. The course will also
address how service organizations can work with
media to promote the agency and victim
issues. The two-day course is supplemented
by foundation pre-course readings and activities from
which the course will build.
While the
program is
directed to victim services, it is applicable to any
service or criminal justice organization that interacts
with the media or wants to develop a promotion plan
for the organization. The program is also appropriate
for members of the media in order to gain greater
understanding of victim services.
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Violence in the Workplace: Assessment and Strategies for Community Agencies |
The JCVVS will offer this course online starting
October 2nd. Content is divided into four sections
offered over a four week period. The end date of
the course is October 26th.
This online
professional development program provides the
information and tools necessary for an organization
to assess risks and to identify strategies of
prevention and responses. The course may benefit
any person concerned about workplace violence, but
is particularly targeted to those organizations that
offer services in the community, such as social
services, health care, victim assistance, faith-based
services, community corrections and others. The
goal of the program is to offer agencies a facilitated
process to develop strategies that may be directly
transferable to the organization. Pre-course readings
and exercises are provided.
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Washburn University Update |
Washburn University has promoted Dr. Brian Ogawa
to Associate Professor and has awarded him tenure.
Dr. Ogawa has also been appointed Interim
Department Chair of the Human Services Department
of which the Victim/Survivor Services concentration
is housed.
The Department of Human
Services has also hired two new half-time
instructors: Dr. Malcolm Smith and Jacque Ford. Dr.
Smith is an expert on youth services as well as youth
and violence. Ms. Ford teaches Human
Development, Case Management, and
Becoming a Helping Professional.
The four courses that comprise the Victim Services
Certificate program are being developed as online
courses and will be available year round. These
courses will be available at both the undergraduate
and graduate level.
The 19th annual Victim
Services Summer Institute will take place next May
and June.
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University of New Haven Update |
The University of New Haven is pleased to announce
two new tenure-track faculty members, Elizabeth
Bartels and Tracy Tamborra, and one new full-time
non-tenure track faculty member, Ernie
Dorling.
Dr. Elizabeth Bartels specializes in
areas of criminology, juvenile justice and comparative
criminal justice. Tracy Tamborra, who holds both
B.S. and M.S. degrees from UNH, is completing her
doctoral degree in Criminal Justice, from John Jay
College of Criminal Justice. Her dissertation examines
the impact of coercion, as a function of relationship
type, on perceptions of rape. Her research interests
include domestic violence, sexual assault, child
sexual abuse, and race, class and gender issues in
criminal justice. Ernie Dorling has 24 years of federal
law enforcement experience including service at ATF
and the DCIS (DOD). He holds a master's of public
administration degree from Troy State University and
will focus his efforts in the area of investigative
services courses and crime analysis.
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