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  • Identifying Above-Average Risk Clients Who Are More Likely to Succeed in the Community

    This webinar focuses on Dr. Sandler’s newest research findings regarding the factors that predict which above-average risk individuals would likely succeed in the community on a supervision and treatment order. Dr. Sandler shares these new, practice-orientated findings that, as is often the case with landmark research, deliver real-world impact and suggest new directions for assessment, treatment, and community supervision.

  • Engaging Clients in Effective Discussion of Healthy Sexuality: A Panel Discussion with Sexual Offense Prevention Experts

    Talking about sex is rarely simple, even for professionals working in sexual offense treatment. Boundaries can feel unclear and often vary from one setting to another. On top of that, separating personal values, beliefs, and experiences from one’s professional role can present additional challenges. Every client brings their own history, perspectives, and interests into the treatment setting, making these conversations even more complex. Yet, best practices necessitate that professionals develop confidence in directly addressing sexual topics with clients. Not only are these discussions essential for effective risk management, but also for supporting clients in developing healthy sex lives that are incompatible with offending. Nikole Nassen, Bud Ballinger, Seth Wescott, and Katie Gotch—leading clinicians and educators in sexual offense prevention—join us to guide this panel discussion. Drawing on their diverse experiences across inpatient and outpatient settings, they share insights, strategies, and practical guidance for navigating the often-uncharted territory of healthy sexuality.

    Free

  • Our Safe Haven: Navigating Disabilities as a Professional in Violence Prevention

    Working in the field of sexual and social violence prevention is challenging, and navigating disabilities can make it even more complex. Whether the disability is visible or unseen, the realities of managing personal health, professional responsibilities, and social expectations can be both exhausting and, at times, isolating.

    Led by Katie Gotch, a clinical professional with lived experience of disability, and David Prescott, a mental health practitioner in the field for four decades, these sessions offer a safe, non-judgmental space to connect, share, and build strategies that can make a meaningful impact on our day-to-day challenges. Each session begins with a focused exploration of a specific topic, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

    $8.00

  • Our Safe Haven: Navigating Disabilities as a Professional in Violence Prevention

    Working in the field of sexual and social violence prevention is challenging, and navigating disabilities can make it even more complex. Whether the disability is visible or unseen, the realities of managing personal health, professional responsibilities, and social expectations can be both exhausting and, at times, isolating.

    Led by Katie Gotch, a clinical professional with lived experience of disability, and David Prescott, a mental health practitioner in the field for four decades, these sessions offer a safe, non-judgmental space to connect, share, and build strategies that can make a meaningful impact on our day-to-day challenges. Each session begins with a focused exploration of a specific topic, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

    $8.00

  • Navigating the Complexities of Group Therapy with Individuals Who Have Harmed Others

    In these Our Safe Haven sessions, we invite you to join Steven Sawyer and David Prescott to explore the complexities of group intervention, from addressing denial and minimization to managing difficult group dynamics and safeguarding the wellbeing of clinicians. Each session begins with a focused theme, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

    $8.00

  • Treating Harmful Sexual Behaviors from a Strengths-Based Approach: A Case Study Exploration

    Strengths-based services for children, adolescents, families, and adults have become far more widely used in recent years. While much of this practice has been in response to trends in research, many professionals simply prefer to take a more positive, strengths-focused approach, particularly when working with adolescents who have caused sexual harm.

    Dr. Kevin Powell has been a leading light in strengths-based work throughout his career, with an extensive record of publications and presentations on the subject. In this training, Dr. Powell describes a challenging case involving an adolescent mandated to receive sexual offense-specific treatment. He invites participants to join him in exploring the broad range of strengths-based interventions he utilized in this case, including a thorough case conceptualization, the strategies he used to enhance the client’s openness and honesty during the treatment process, and the specific challenges that occurred during the process. He ends the discussion with a summary of a 20-year follow-up of this case.

    $105.00

  • Our Safe Haven: Advancing Allyship and Support Services for People with Marginalized Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity (MOGI)

    ndividuals with marginalized sexual orientations and/or sexual identities (MOGI) encounter numerous interrelated challenges, including stigma, discrimination, and violence in social, educational, and professional environments; heightened risk of mental health issues due to social isolation and abuse; barriers to accessing vital health and support services; and rejection from families or communities, often resulting in homelessness and further marginalization. These challenges are compounded by cultural misunderstandings, intersecting forms of exclusion, and gaps in societal and institutional support. Addressing them requires a collective effort to advance inclusion, equity, and community acceptance for people of all MOGI, ensuring their dignity and rights are respected and upheld.

    In response to these realities, we invite those supporting MOGI-diverse individuals and members of their communities to join us for this series of professional dialogues moderated by Jimmy Widdifield, Jr., and David Prescott. Created to foster meaningful and respectful conversations, these sessions provide a space for professionals to openly explore the challenges faced by individuals with diverse MOGIE. Through shared experiences, expert insights, and practical guidance, attendees will gain strategies to strengthen advocacy, promote inclusive practices, and build effective allyship—helping to foster environments where all people can live authentically and thrive.

    $8.00

  • Using the Becoming Who I Want to Be Workbooks in Clinical Practice with Young Men and Young Women

    The Becoming Who I Want to Be workbooks for young men and women were designed for professionals working with youths with problematic behaviors toward others. Designed to be approachable and interactive, the workbooks engage clients whose adverse childhood experiences and problem behaviors have caused them to fall behind academically, socially, and emotionally. Based on the Good Lives Model (GLM), the workbook translates complex theory into practical strategies for treatment settings.

    This training shows participants how to effectively integrate the workbooks into their therapeutic practice. Presenter and author David Prescott begins the training by reviewing the core principles of the GLM. He then offers ideas for how clinicians and counselors can use each section. Central to this training is its focus on dovetailing the GLM and these workbooks with Motivational Interviewing skills and the principles of Trauma-Informed Care, ensuring that intervention is not only effective but also client-centered and deeply supportive.

    $60.00

  • Improving Solution-Focused Techniques in Suicide Prevention: A Dialogue with Emma Burns and John Henden

    Skills for the effective prevention of suicide are critical for practitioners of all backgrounds and settings. Too often, professionals focus heavily on assessment and risk management, leaving clients feeling unheard or disconnected from the process. Solution-focused therapy (SFT) offers an alternative—one that centers on a client's strengths, potential, and capacity for change rather than on risk alone.

    In this webinar discussion, author Emma Burns and psychotherapist John Henden share their insights from their work using SFT with individuals experiencing suicidality. This conversation underscores the value of staying client-centered and strengths-based, even in complex and high-risk situations. It’s an opportunity to consider how subtle shifts in approach can open channels for change and healing.

    Free

  • Our Safe Haven: Navigating the Complexities of Group Therapy with Individuals Who Have Harmed Others

    In these Our Safe Haven sessions, we invite you to join Steven Sawyer and David Prescott to explore the complexities of group intervention, from addressing denial and minimization to managing difficult group dynamics and safeguarding the wellbeing of clinicians. Each session begins with a focused theme, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights.

    $8.00

  • Clients’ Personal Histories – Collecting Helpful Information (OT295)

    Client self-disclosure of personal history is essential to assessment, treatment, and the development of effective plans for preventing further harm to others. Steven Sawyer, MSSW, LICSW, ATSA-F developed this training to offer methods for helping clients to explore their life experiences, including the use of a structured workbook called Your Personal History.

    The session further provides an overview of the workbook’s purpose, content, and practical application. It illustrates how collecting personal histories using tools such as Your Personal History serves as both a data collection procedure for intake or assessment and a series of pretreatment exercises to build treatment readiness and enhance self-reflection.

    $70.00

  • Psychosocial Maturity and Neurodevelopment in Adolescents with Harmful Sexual Behaviors

    Neuropsychology and brain research have identified developmental changes from ages 10 to 25 related to social judgment and reasoning. These changes are associated with the steep increase in delinquent behaviors, accidents, and sexually harmful behaviors during adolescence. Increased size, strength, and sexual maturity are complemented by an increase in the drive and reward centers of the brain and decreased supervision during adolescence. This can involve slower development in social judgment and reasoning. Youths with delays in social judgment are at greater risk for harmful actions, including sexual behaviors.

    This training integrates relevant research on brain development, maturity, and adolescent behavior. It demonstrates that psychosocial immaturity during this stage is a significant risk factor for general delinquency and harmful sexual behaviors. Participants leave with strategies for assessing and fostering healthy development in youths.

    $105.00

  • Our Safe Haven: Navigating Sexuality Beliefs When Working with Individuals Who Have Engaged in Nonconsensual Sexual Behaviors

    In this Our Safe Haven, we invite you to join Robin Cooper and David Prescott to explore how personal and professional beliefs about sexuality influence our work, client relationships, and the broader field. Each session begins with a focused review of how sexuality beliefs influence professional practice, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights: Session 02: Let’s Talk Gender Dynamics in Clinical Settings - Explore the intersections of gender roles, expectations, and power dynamics in therapeutic work. Share strategies to build greater awareness and equity in clinical relationships.

    $8.00

  • Static-99R Training: Best Practices for Accurate Risk Assessment (Day 01)

    In this training, Certified Trainer Katie Gotch provides a thorough overview of the Static-99R, including its development, scoring system, and application in various settings. Participants learn how to score each of the ten items, with scores ranging from -3 to 12, and understand how these scores categorize individuals into five distinct risk levels: very low, below average, average, above average, and well above average risk.

    The training also covers the predictive validity of the Static-99R and its appropriate use in forensic settings. Case studies are utilized to enhance understanding and facilitate skill development throughout the training.

    $280.00

  • Static-99R Training: Best Practices for Accurate Risk Assessment (Day 02)

    In this training, Certified Trainer Katie Gotch provides a thorough overview of the Static-99R, including its development, scoring system, and application in various settings. Participants learn how to score each of the ten items, with scores ranging from -3 to 12, and understand how these scores categorize individuals into five distinct risk levels: very low, below average, average, above average, and well above average risk.

    The training also covers the predictive validity of the Static-99R and its appropriate use in forensic settings. Case studies are utilized to enhance understanding and facilitate skill development throughout the training.

    $280.00

  • Using the Good Lives Model with Adolescents and Young Men Who Have Harmed Others

    Grounded in the principles of effective rehabilitation, this presentation by David Prescott—an internationally recognized expert in sexual violence prevention and rehabilitation—explores how the GLM can be applied to work with adolescents who behaviors have caused harm to others, including sexual and non-sexual violence. Through case examples and discussion, participants examine the model’s core elements—including primary human goods, approach goals, and the principles of effective intervention—while gaining insight into treatment methods that support change. Emphasis is placed on understanding how developmental adversity, unmet human needs, and family dynamics can influence harmful behaviors. Attention is also given to identifying obstacles to a good life plan and implementing GLM-based strategies across clinical and community settings.

    $140.00

  • Translating Risk, Need, and Responsivity (RNR) Principles into Supervisory and Clinical Practice (OT296)

    Effectively managing and rehabilitating individuals who have committed serious offenses requires a framework that is both grounded in research and adaptable to diverse professional settings. The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model has become one of the most influential evidence-based approaches in the field of corrections, providing clear principles to guide assessment, intervention, and supervision.

    Sandy Jung—an accomplished researcher, clinician, and experienced trainer—developed this training to provide professionals with practical methods for using RNR principles in their work with adult individuals convicted of sex offenses. Drawing on her extensive expertise, she offers strategies, tools, and case examples to support effective implementation.

    $140.00

  • Practical Application of the Good Lives Model: Enhancing Rehabilitation with Strengths-Based Approaches

    Developed and presented by Gwenda Willis and David Prescott, this four-hour online training equips professionals with practical methods for integrating the GLM into treatment programs for individuals who have sexually offended. Drawing on their extensive international experience, including work with programs in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Norway, North America, Germany, Italy, and Namibia, they provide clear strategies for embedding the model into program structure, content, and delivery. The training outlines how to conduct GLM-based assessments, design intervention plans, adapt RNR/CBT modules, and address dynamic risk factors such as sexual and general self-regulation using a GLM-informed approach.

    $140.00

  • Working with Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: Intersectional Approaches to Healing

    Few experiences fill a person with a greater sense of shame, stigma, and misunderstanding than sexual abuse. Men who have been harmed sexually can become marginalized and isolated, with limited resources available to them or those who support them. This training explores the impact of this harm on men through an intersectional lens, exploring how their unique identities, circumstances, and society's views can either support their recovery or compound their trauma. This training helps participants refine their understanding of the after-effects of abuse on males, which too often persist long after the abuse occurred.

    $60.00

  • Addressing Accountability and Denial in Sex Offense Treatment: Evolving Practices and Practical Frameworks

    Working with clients who deny their past behaviors has long presented dilemmas for practitioners. Requiring full disclosure of past offenses has been a source of recent debate in sex offense treatment, particularly since the late 1990s. Historically, accountability for sexual offending was required as a pre-condition for treatment participation and completion, as well as for successful release from supervision. More recently, however, perspectives have shifted. Research indicating that denial is not a risk factor for future sexual offending, along with concerns for the therapeutic alliance and questions regarding potential violation of the right against self-incrimination, has led clinicians to begin modifying their approach to addressing denial. As a result, many programs no longer require those who offend to be accountable as a precondition of treatment entry or completion.

    $105.00

  • Our Safe Haven: Navigating Sexuality Beliefs When Working with Individuals Who Have Engaged in Nonconsensual Sexual Behaviors

    In this Our Safe Haven, we invite you to join Robin Cooper and David Prescott to explore how personal and professional beliefs about sexuality influence our work, client relationships, and the broader field. Each session begins with a focused review of how sexuality beliefs influence professional practice, evolving naturally into an engaging, attendee-driven conversation shaped by shared experiences and professional insights: Session 03: Let’s Talk Managing Transference and Boundaries: Discuss how clients may unconsciously project feelings from past relationships onto professionals and explore strategies for recognizing these patterns, maintaining healthy boundaries, and supporting effective treatment.

    $8.00

  • Recidivism Rates Among Individuals Who Commit Child Sexual Exploitation Material Offenses

    The viewing and sharing of child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) have steadily risen since the internet’s inception, making it critical to understand the true nature of CSEM reoffending. In this webinar, researchers Serra Baskurt, Kelly Babchishin, PhD, and Michael Seto, PhD, present a groundbreaking meta-analysis that reveals startling differences between self-reported and officially recorded recidivism rates. Their findings uncover much higher levels of persistent CSEM use than previously recognized and challenge current assumptions about offense detection. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the implications for assessment, treatment, and policy, grounded in a modern understanding of risk, need, and responsivity.

    Free

  • Using The Illegal Images Workbook with Adults Who Have Viewed Child Sexual Abuse Media

    The Illegal Images Workbook: Understanding and Changing Harmful Online Sexual Behavior provides professionals with a structured, strengths-based approach for adults involved in viewing or possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Created by Dr. David Delmonico and Elizabeth Griffin, it guides therapeutic work across six growth areas: emotion management, intimacy, deviant sexuality, sexual behavior control, technology use, and victim awareness. This four-hour workshop introduces the workbook’s clinical applications, showing how to integrate its exercises into treatment and supervision while addressing challenges like shame, minimization, and technology limits in line with client risk and responsivity.

    $96.00

  • How to Effectively Use Dynamic Risk Assessment Tools: STABLE-2007 & ACUTE-2007 Training (Day 01)

    During this eight-hour training, Katie Gotch, LPC, CCSOT, ATSA-F, provides an overview of the development and research of the STABLE-2007 and ACUTE-2007 instruments. She explains how to score each of the measures’ items, as well as their appropriate interpretation and use within varying settings. This includes recent guidance on the use of these tools with individuals convicted of child sexual abuse material-related offenses (CSAM). To enhance learning, case studies are incorporated to provide hands-on practice and to address common scoring and administration errors.

    $280.00

  • How to Effectively Use Dynamic Risk Assessment Tools: STABLE-2007 & ACUTE-2007 Training (Day 02)

    During this eight-hour training, Katie Gotch, LPC, CCSOT, ATSA-F, provides an overview of the development and research of the STABLE-2007 and ACUTE-2007 instruments. She explains how to score each of the measures’ items, as well as their appropriate interpretation and use within varying settings. This includes recent guidance on the use of these tools with individuals convicted of child sexual abuse material-related offenses (CSAM). To enhance learning, case studies are incorporated to provide hands-on practice and to address common scoring and administration errors.

    $280.00

  • Stress and Motivation in Sexual Abuse Treatment: Insights from the 2025 Survey

    The “Stressors and Motivators Among Professionals Treating Clients Who Have Sexually Abused” survey, conducted by Safer Society Foundation, examines how stressors and motivators shape the professional experiences of those working with individuals with histories of sexual abuse towards others. The survey responded to growing concerns about workforce sustainability and the need to highlight not only the challenges of this work, but also the powerful sources of meaning and satisfaction that sustain professionals in the field. Among its key findings, the survey revealed that while burnout and professional strain remain widespread, respondents emphasized that profound personal rewards play a critical role in fostering resilience and job satisfaction.​

    In this webinar, the survey’s authors—David S. Prescott, Stacey Zolondek Ginesin, & Sarah Snow Haskell—guide a discussion into the findings, exploring how stress and motivation intersect in professional practice.

    Free

  • Advancing Violence Prevention Through Research and Community Partnerships

    Dr. Melissa Bright, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Violence Prevention Research, has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between research and practice through collaboration among practitioners, community stakeholders, and scientists. In this webinar, she discusses her findings on preventing sexual abuse and violence against women in areas such as sports, school-based education, and among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Dr. Bright explores how scientific study can clarify complex societal issues and strengthen the impact of prevention efforts. She also reflects on the professional meaning she has found through building partnerships that transform research into real-world strategies for saving lives.

    Free

  • Providing Treatment to People Who Categorically Deny Their Sexual Offending Behavior

    Individuals convicted of sexual offenses who are mandated to treatment often pose clinical, ethical, and motivational challenges, especially when they deny their offenses. Clinicians must balance accountability with empathy, finding ways to foster engagement and promote meaningful change despite denial and resistance.

    The Rockwood Psychotherapy and Consulting Services program in Ontario created an evidence-informed approach tailored to this population. In this training, Dr. Liam Marshall explains the theory and practice behind Rockwood’s model, highlighting effective practitioner traits and strategies to overcome engagement barriers while addressing the ethical and clinical complexities of working with individuals who deny offending.

    $70.00