PRESS RELEASE TO:

ADULT AND JUVENILE PROVIDERS

FROM:

SEX OFFENDER MANAGEMENT BOARD

RE:

SECTION 4.000 – CLARIFICATION RE: TRAINING HOURS

DATE:

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The Application Review Committee (ARC) of the Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) recently noticed an increase in the number of providers using informal training to meet the training qualifications listed in section 4.000 of the Standards. The ARC would like to clarify what is expected to meet this qualification. Many providers are documenting attendance to committee meetings, reading (journals, chapters, etc.), and attending in-house or in agency trainings conducted by their own clinical supervisor or staff/co-workers. Participation in subcommittee meetings of the SOMB is not equal to training. Some SOMB meetings do have presentations that could be considered training and can count toward training credit. Reading various types of educational documents is also not considered training. In addition, while inhouse/agency training can be valuable and can partially satisfy the SOMB provider training requirement, the ARC has determined that providers may not use this type of training for a majority or all of the required training hours. In–house/agency training is defined as any training provided by a co-worker or supervisor at the agency where the provider works. However, in–house/agency training does not include outside/non-agency speakers providing a formalized training at an agency for agency personnel. The ARC wishes to stress that training provided by co-workers or supervisors must be provided within the context of a formalized training, and not be professional development provided via individual or group clinical supervision. This decision by ARC is also made to prohibit providers from counting interactions with supervisors as both supervision and training, as these constitute two different qualification requirements in section 4.000 of the Standards. The purpose of this Press Release is for the ARC and the SOMB to clarify the expectations surrounding training as indicated in section 4.000 of the Standards. Thus, the ARC has decided to count only up to 25% of the required training via in-house/agency training. The remaining 75% of required training hours must be formalized training conducted by a trainer other than a co-worker or supervisor (e.g., an SOMB training, or a comparable training provided by a non-

SOMB training entity or individual, etc.). This policy is effective immediately; however, any applications currently being reviewed will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. All training related questions should be directed to Cathy Rodriguez at [email protected] or at 303-239-4499 or Raechel Alderete at [email protected] or at 303-239-4197.