Victim Safety Planning
Presented by Kelly A. Watt, Ph.D., in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Victim Safety Planning is presented by Kelly A. Watt, Ph.D., in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
This program discusses professionals’ and workplaces’ responsibilities related to victim safety planning. Victim safety planning is one of the most common management strategies for all violence risk assessments and is a responsibility under both professional obligations and occupational health and safety regulations. However, it is often not given the attention it deserves or requires.
The vast majority of violence occurs in the context of a relationship with others including current or former intimate partners, family and friends, coworkers and supervisors, and clients or patients. Unfortunately, sometimes there is very little that can be done to intervene with a perpetrator of violence but a great deal to support a victim of violence.
This program also provides an overview of best practices and challenging issues related to safety planning. It discusses how to build internal competencies in this area and when to rely on external resources.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
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Describe professionals’ and workplaces’ responsibilities related to victim safety planning
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Describe best practices and challenging issues related to safety planning
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Describe how to build internal competencies in this area and when to rely on external resources
Presented By
Kelly A. Watt, PhD
Dr. Kelly A. Watt works as a Threat Assessment Specialist at Protect International and is a member of the Mental Health, Law, and Policy Institute at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Dr. Watt is the editor of the Intelligence newsletter which is disseminated on behalf of threat assessment professional associations in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific, and that provides recent advances in research, practice, and the law related to threat assessment around the globe.
Protect International Risk and Safety Services
We are proud to partner with Protect International Risk and Safety Services for this training. Protect International's threat assessment professionals are internationally recognized experts that have developed some of the world's most widely used and best-validated threat assessment tools. Protect International provides services and products related to violence risk assessment and management, also known as threat assessment and management. Protect International services and products include threat assessment training and support, case assessment and management, legal consultation, policy review and development, and program evaluation and research; along with threat assessment manuals, worksheets, licenses, and software applications for those tools.
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