Topic: Domestic Violence

Department of Probation and Aftercare staff recently presented certificates to 10 people who completed a 32-week Domestic Violence Intervention Programme; and to eight people who completed a 10-week Anger Management Programme.

This is Probation and Parole Week. Each day the Caymanian Compass has carried an article explaining what Cayman Islands Department of Probation and Aftercare does.

The group work approach in the Department of Probation and Aftercare provides another modality in the strategy to provide a social work intervention in the lives of clients.

The Women's Resource Centre is revitalizing a free Domestic Violence Intervention Training Programme for police officers, social workers, and other professionals who work on the frontline with persons involved in domestic violence.

The Cayman Islands Crisis Centre, with the financial support of Chevron Caribbean Inc., operating under its Texaco brand in the Cayman Islands, is in the midst of producing a resource manual for teacher's aimed at assisting with the identification and appropriate reporting of child abuse and neglect.

The RCIPS's Family Support Unit has issued the following information as part of its efforts to raise awareness of domestic violence and the support available for those in need.

Residents in Cayman Brac were given the opportunity to have their questions answered by the RCIPS senior command team last week.

Mrs. Joyce Sybil Hylton, better known by all as Miss Joyce was not the only person doing community volunteer social work in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, but she was the only person who approached Government acting in the role of a social advocate relating to juveniles in trouble.

The Cayman Islands Government Probation Aftercare Unit has designated this week as Probation and Parole Week, Community Rehabilitation is Everybody's Business. The Caymanian Compass will include daily articles about the unit to help the community fully understand what the service provides.

The Cayman Islands Government Probation Aftercare Unit has designated this week as Probation and Parole Week, Community Rehabilitation is Everybody's Business.

The RCIPS Family Support Unit is taking active steps to try and encourage men who are suffering abuse to come forward. Officers within the unit are often asked if men really can and do get abused and the answer is yes.