A gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program for
mental health, addiction, and domestic violence professionals
working within the criminal justice system
"Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Criminal
Justice-Involved Women "is a forty-hour, evidence-based treatment
program specifically developed for women who have committed
aggressive or violent crimes and are in prisons, jails, and
community correctional settings.
The curriculum employs the Social-Ecological Model used by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to understand violence,
as well as by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) research on
women in prison. This four-level model of violence prevention
considers the complex interplay between individual, relationship,
community, and societal factors. It addresses the key issues that
put women at risk for experiencing or perpetrating violence.
Included in this package are: Facilitator Guide presenting a
20-session format, with the theory, structure, and content needed
to run effective groups. Written for those who will be facilitating
the "Beyond" "Violence" program, the guide provides an overall
description of the program, step-by-step instructions for
conducting each session, and "What I Want My Words to Do to You,"
an award-winning documentary DVD offering an unprecedented look in
the hearts and minds of women in a maximum-security
prison.Participant Workbook designed to allow women to process,
record, and refer back to their therapeutic experience.
Participants can use this workbook to review the content of the
sessions, express their thoughts and reactions, and complete
activities during and after sessions. In addition, it helps
participants learn new skills, including communication, conflict
resolution, de-escalation strategies, decision-making, and calming
self-soothing techniques.
Praise for "Beyond Violence"
"A pioneer in trauma-informed and gender-responsive treatment
for prisoners, Covington has once again brought to the field an
immensely important, timely, and useful resource. "Beyond Violence
"offers an approach to working with imprisoned women that is
approachable and adaptable. "Beyond Violence "offers the
opportunity for imprisoned women to understand their trauma, relate
their experience to their justice system involvement, and begin a
journey toward recovery. As always, Covington's work is thoughtful,
sensitive, and well organized. It provides facilitators with tools
that are understandable and useable. Her work is insightful, smart,
and on target."
--Martin F. Horn, Distinguished Lecturer, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice; Executive Director, New York State Sentencing
Commission
"No one is more qualified than Stephanie Covington to design
this prevention program for women tangled in the criminal legal
system. Her decades-long commitment to incarcerated women and
girls, research on these women and girls, and practices to best
assist them is unprecedented. Even knowing all of this, I am
impressed with the comprehensiveness, compassion, creativity, and
sensibility of the "Beyond Violence "curriculum and design."
--Joanne Belknap, PhD, Professor and Department Chair of Sociology,
University of Colorado-Boulder; President-Elect, American Society
of Criminology
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