NCJ Number
137416
Date Published
1992
Length
73 pages
Annotation
This training curriculum is designed to provide an opportunity for juvenile probation officers at all stages of their careers to acquire the necessary skills and requisite knowledge base to perform their job effectively and to provide needed services. The basic text for this training is the Desktop Guide to Good Juvenile Probation Practice.
Abstract
The specific goals of the training are to improve the ability of juvenile probation officers to meet the needs of youths and to serve the community, enhance career options for probation officers, increase the status of the juvenile probation field, and increase the level of knowledge and skills held by juvenile probation officers. Juvenile probation officers are responsible for protecting the community from delinquency, imposing accountability for offenses committed, and equipping juvenile offenders with the competencies needed to live productively and responsibly. This curriculum is based on a theory of adult learning known as androgogy in which the adult learner is self-directing, has a wide range of accumulated experience, and has a problem-centered orientation to learning. The 15 lesson plans included here consist of a face sheet, including descriptive materials for each lesson, and an instructor's lesson guide that provides a step-by-step description of the procedures used to present the material. The curriculum also contains 79 transparencies and 35 instruction handouts, a core case study and additional case studies, and a sample course syllabus.