Presenters: The PAAM VSTU is pleased to host this training in partnership with the Office for Victims of Crime, United States Department of Justice.  Our presenters will be Tina Chery, President and CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute; and Angie McCown, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Director Victim Services Division.

Training Presentations: This training will provide system-based victim advocates and prosecutors with the skills to support families, friends, and others affected by homicide. The training will allow participants to assist survivors of homicide victims through the most shattering experience of their lives and assisting them in incorporating their loss into their life.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

• Define homicide.
• Understand the emotional and psychological responses to homicide.
• Identify stressors and ways in which victim service providers can cope with stress and build resilience.
• Describe how to make a compassionate death notification.
• Provide appropriate interventions following notification.
• Describe how to assist survivors over the long-term following notification of a homicide.
• Explain how to prepare and support a survivor through the legal system and trial process. 

 

This course is approved for 8 hours of credit under PAAM’s recommended CLE Best Practice.

This course is also approved for 8 hours of social worker continuing education hours.