Transcript The Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management

Bridging the Gap:
Creating Effective partnerships to reduce sexual
victimization
The 10th Interfaith Symposium
on the Sex Offender in Your Faith
Community
“Safety Starts Here”
THE PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD
BEHIND THESE WORDS
Safety centered: As a Philosophy
Includes victims &
victim advocates
Transparency and
information sharing is
vital
Recognize ongoing risk
to victims and
community
Faith communities
work with service
providers to inform
policies & strategies
safety– Centered: As a Method
REFRAME
Three
Dimensions
BROADEN
SEEK
INPUT
Creating Partnerships to
reduce sexual
victimization
“ The most comprehensive and responsible
approaches to community
management of sex offenders are those which place paramount
importance on addressing the needs and safety of past and potential
victims of sexual assault.”
Center for Sex Offender Management: The Comprehensive Assessment Protocol
• Requires multi-disciplinary collaboration.
• Victim and community safety are paramount and
should be placed at the forefront of sex offender
management strategies.
Multidisciplinary Teams or Effective
partnership
“A group of community members from various
specialties and backgrounds, working
together toward a common goal.”
CSOM identifies nine disciplines:
Law enforcement * community corrections *
institutional corrections * parole * defense
* prosecution * courts * sex offender
treatment providers * and victim advocacy
Multidisciplinary Teams or Effective
partnership
The Interfaith Group in King County identifies
eight disciplines:
*Law enforcement *Community corrections
*Institutional Corrections *Prison Ministry
*Faith Communities *Victim Advocacy
*JRA Probation or Parole and
*Sex Offender Treatment providers
Effective partnerships
“Collaboration requires agencies and individuals to recognize
the importance of diverse perspectives, share resources, and
make a commitment to work together to enhance capacity
toward attainment of a common goal.”
Center for Sex Offender Management: The Comprehensive Assessment Protocol
You are a key partner in this effort.
Let’s look at an example:
a typical Faith community
and community of service Providers
Community
Corrections
Law
Enforcement
Faith
Community
Law Enforcement
Prison Ministry
Institutional
JRA
Probation or
Parole
Corrections
Victim
Advocacy
Sex Offender
Treatment
Providers
An Effective Partnership or
Multidisciplinary Model
Institutional
Corrections
Community
corrections
Victim Advocacy
Faith
Community
Sex Offender
Treatment
Providers
JRA Probation or
Parole
Law Enforcement
Prison Ministry
Safety – Centered: Summary
A philosophy that places the safety of victim
and potential victims at the forefront of how
we manage sex offenders; and
A method that requires us to incorporate a
new openness to a multidisciplinary
partnership by examining each policy or case
management decision through a lens that asks
about potential impact of policies and
decisions on victims and/or potential victims.
Scenario:
During a Sunday school discussion about good
touch/bad touch an 8 year old female made a
concerning statement about one of the Youth
Ministries Leaders to the Sunday School Teacher.
The girl shared that on three different occasions the
Youth Leader touched her privates when he had
given her a ride home after the practices for the
Christmas Service.
Special thanks to:
• Shawn McMahon and the Archdiocese of
Seattle
• The staff at the Palisades
• Our Panel Members
• The 2012 Interfaith Symposium Planning
Committee
• Mike North for the flyer
• Each of you!
A word about our evaluation
• Short form in your packet
• Longer online survey monkey that will be
emailed to you following today’s symposium
and then a 6 month follow up
• Your input helps us provide the most useful
and effective information for faith
communities and service providers