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Course : Basic Safety Workshop for Probation and Parole Officers

Project Description :      With over two-thirds of the offender population in the United States under some form of community supervision, community corrections agencies and practitioners face the challenge of providing effective supervision while maintaining practices that promote personal officer safety. For a variety of reasons, new probation, parole, or community corrections officers may not receive safety training before assuming their job duties. This workshop is designed to introduce the new officer to information that will prompt their consideration of safety issues. It is not intended to replace onsite safety training, nor is it considered to be comprehensive enough to provide all that an officer needs to know to be safe.

                                    The American Probation and Parole Association through a grant funded by the Bureau of Justice Administration (BJA), Office of Justice Programs, U. S. Department of Justice is pleased to make this course available at no fee to participants. The project is designed to give officers access to information they might otherwise have difficulty obtaining by presenting the workshop through a distance-learning methodology. Specifically, this workshop is being presented as a web-based curriculum that can be completed at a pace and time chosen by the participant.

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                                    This course is offered free to eligible participants (probation, parole, and community corrections practitioners). If you are interested in participating, please register as a new user and input all requested information. Upon submission you will be directed to a welcome page that will serve as the launching point for the workshop.

                                    If you have any difficulty registering or subsequently accessing or participating in any of the course material, please send an email to the helpline.