WEBINAR: In Practice — Providing In-Person Services Behind Bars
Channel: Just Detention International
Date: 2014-07-31

How do you provide face-to-face counseling when your client is locked up, possibly in the same place as the perpetrator? How do you maintain confidentiality when you have to go through security to see your client? 

This webinar for rape crisis advocates and other community-based service providers goes over the specifics of how to set up in-person services in detention facilities, including ways to maintain confidentiality and work within facility rules. We also cover tips for entering a facility and what you might expect once you’re inside. 

We are joined by several advocates who talk about their own programs, including some of their successes and challenges when meeting with survivors in a variety of detention facilities. We end with questions and answers. 

The webinar is geared toward advocates, but anyone who works with current or former detainees is encouraged to watch. This series of webinars is being supported by the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. 

JDI is a health and human rights organization that seeks to eliminate sexual violence in all forms of detention.

Originally recorded on July 23, 2014.