The Texas Council on Family Violence supports Texas BIPP programs around accreditation and audits and offers a variety of training, coaching, and education for program coordinators, facilitators, referral agencies, and community partners.
BIPP Conference
Tools for Transformation Annual BIPP Conference features dynamic presenters, showcases state and national trends and presents effective tools for BIPP facilitators. The conference provides the opportunity to gain deeper knowledge of effective ways to work with family violence offenders and on how to partner with critical systems to create a coordinated community response. Texas CJAD CEUs are offered.
The 18th Annual TCFV BIPP Conference will be on March 31 & April 1, 2022 and will be held virtually!
In-Person Trainings
The BIPP Educational Series is a two-day, in-person training opportunity presented by TCFV staff in partnership with state and national experts.
The Fatherhood Training is an in-person training hosted by TCFV and presented by national experts.
Texas CJAD CEUs are offered on all trainings.
BIPP Education Summer Series
TCFV is pleased to announce the 2022 Battering Intervention and Prevention Program (BIPP) educational virtual webinar series. These “Lunch & Learn” events will provide a total of 13.50 TDCJ-CJAD approved training hours. Your staff will find the three webinars helpful in guiding their work with offenders and promoting the effectiveness of BIPP in your community.
Firearms & Domestic Violence | June 22, 2022
Let’s Talk About Sex: Addressing Sex Education, Sex Positivity, and Sexual Coercion with BIPP Participants | July 14, 2022
The Intersection of Suicide and Intimate Partner Violence | August 3, 2022
Online Training
TCFV provides live and online training to enhance your BIPP program and facilitation skills. TCFV members have FREE access to all BIPP webinars when you use the scholarship code when registering. Texas CJAD CEUs are offered for all webinars.
Getting Set Up with Coalition Manager
Coalition Manager (CM) is a lot of things! It is our data management system, our grant reporting system, our CRM, our registration software, but most importantly, it is our online training platform!
As you navigate CM, you will see that this platform connects you to your agency account, your in-person training registration, and any activities you have done with TCFV.
CM is the one-stop-shop for all your needs!
Yes! You need a CM account to access all the CM wonderment!
Please take a moment to connect with us here at TCFV and get your agency account set up.
Each staff person will have an individual log in through their agency account, so if you have BIPP staff, please send us a list of their:
- Names
- Emails
- Titles
Speciality Groups…
CJAD funded BIPP programs – your agency likely already has an account. Please check with your ED/CEO to check and see if staff are in putted into the system. You can also check with Kate to see if that agency account has been set up.
Non-CJAD funded BIPP or a solo BIPP facilitator or working toward your accreditation – please create an agency account. This will allow you to track your initial training and staff development hours.
Contract BIPP facilitators who work with a number of agencies, please share with us your primary agency. If one of your agencies is a TCFV member, use that as your primary agency so you can glean the member benefits.
I’m Only Here for the Content…
If you just want to watch one online training or you don’t need CEUs, then you can still register and view the online training without an account. Please note, doing this will basically create a single sign in, so your record of this training will not link to any other training you do with TCFV or to account you might create in the future. If you view a webinar this way you are responsible for your CEU and downloading it and keeping it in your records.
Getting an account with CM is free; however our BIPP online training fee structure is $5 per 30 minutes of training.
EXAMPLE: a 1.50 hour training will cost $15.00.
Please remember a benefit of TCFV membership is free online training and a discount at our in-person training and conferences, so if you are interested in becoming a member, please contact Leigh Ann Montague, our Membership Manager.
Yes! This is one of the best parts of CM. All your training stays right here in one place. You can access it at any time for your accreditation, an audit, for your social work license, or just for you.
It is helpful to know that your training record stays with your agency, so if you move jobs, make sure you download your certificates before you depart, if not, you will need to contact your agency’s CM administrator for access to your past training records.
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BIPP Hours
Join us and Aaron Hernandez in exploring the Texas BIPP Accreditation Guidelines. This three part series will explore:
- Staff Requirements – background checks, initial training requirements, staff development, and supervision
- Case Records and Victim Safety – case records/management system, confidentiality, assessment procedures, and exits
- Program Content and Delivery – payment policy, program duration, group make-up, group format, program focus, and program curriculum
Level: Beginner-Intermediate
CEUS: 3.00 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LMFT, LPC (total)
The videos were recorded in 2017 from a live training Dr. Kevin Fall offered to BIPP providers in partnership with TCFV.
The recorded interactive training explores the core elements of group facilitation to enhance the potency of BIPP groups and explores essential group dynamics, handling resistance and increasing the efficacy of co-leadership. The second half of the videos demonstrate how to put into action the core elements of group facilitation.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 6.00 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LMFT, LPC
David Almager explores the three categories of domestic violence, what motivates coercive control, the stages of change and motivational interviewing, and the basics of leading BIPP groups.
Level: Beginner
CEUs: 2.00 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LMFT, LPC
Participant dropout is a challenge. Peggy Helton explores the risk factors that increase the likelihood of participants dropping out of BIPP programs and the resources for mitigating these risk factors.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 1.0 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Alyce LaViolette explains the techniques for working with men who use faith as a rationale for their abuse and the use of faith to build bridges of understanding within the group itself. LaViolette has worked with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perpetrators of domestic violence and presents related case studies.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Dr. Kevin Fall focuses on the integration of core clinical skills into BIPP group formats and highlights the specific skills related to the role of the counselor, the function of the group, and how to avoid the dynamics of power and control within the counselor-client relationship.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Founded in 1977, Emerge has pioneered effective and culturally relevant abuser education strategies as well as those for abusers in same-sex relationships. Currently, 30 percent of Emerge’s clients are self-referred, and over 60 percent complete the 40-week program. The presenter describes strategies for client recruitment, client retention, engagement and accountability. The latter includes a brief description of key intervention techniques used at Emerge that can be adapted to other treatment settings. The exercises are geared toward promoting client accountability as well as engagement, both for individual clients and group members.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Join Heather M. and Lindsey Y., BIPP facilitators with the Artemis Center in Dayton, Ohio as they share about the dynamics, challenges, and solutions for working with female BIPP groups or women who use force groups.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Men who abuse their partners tend to have a disproportionately high level of childhood trauma compared to the general population. Chris Huffine reviews how the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey (ACES) can assess childhood trauma exposure, and discusses how to offer trauma-informed psycho-educational services and guidelines for a specialized abuse intervention group for abusive partners who are childhood trauma survivors.
Level: Intermediate
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
David Adams describes innovative practices in assessing and responding to risk in batterer intervention programs. Founded in 1977, Emerge has pioneered effective and culturally relevant abuser education strategies as well as those for abusers in same-sex relationships. Adams describes a protocol, developed and piloted in Massachusetts, for assessing the risk of men who attend batterer intervention programs. Adams also discusses risk management strategies for different types of high-risk clients by drawing from the clinical practice as well as research on men who killed their intimate partners.
Level: Intermediate
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Join Ben Meneses from Dallas’ The Family Place in exploring and highlighting certain issues specific to working with domestic violence offenders in the LGBT+ community. We will discuss what cultural norms we need to be aware of, look at the jargon used by the community, and explore what philosophical approach we should take when working with this population.
Level: Intermediate
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Join Christopher Hall in learning about Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based engagement strategy originally designed to work with substance abuse issues. It has since expanded to be applied in several areas where change agents work to offer alternative choices and improvements based in health and respect. Applying MI in domestic violence work involves understanding methods of humanization and finding ways to reach individuals who may not on the surface seem interested or feel safe making changes in their lives and relationships with others. This webinar will explore MI techniques, both in a broad overview, but also in specific applications for work with victims/survivors and perpetrators of domestic violence.
Level: Intermediate
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Family Violence Hours
Join David Almager and Hilarye Hightower of Denton County Friends of the Family in exploring the dynamics of domestic violence through the Domestic Abuse Intervention Program’s (DAIP) Power and Control and Equality Wheels. They also briefly look at teen dating violence and how to use time outs in health partnerships.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 2.00 Texas CJAD (FV), SW, LMFT, LPC
Join Scott Miller with the Domestic Abuse Intervention Program in Duluth, Minnosota in exploring how you can encouarge you BIPP participats to understand and practice economic partnership in their relationships.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (FV), SW, LMFT, LPC
Join Ulester Douglas and Greg Loughlin from Men Stopping Violence in exploring their Community Accountability Model, which explores how to engage men and communities in the movement to end violence toward women and girls.
Level: Beginner
CEUS: 1.00 Texas CJAD (FV), SW, LMFT, LPC
Join Krista Del Gallo and William West exploring what reproductive coercion looks like for survivors, then dive into the complexities of addressing reproducitve coercion in BIPP group with Barbara Hart.
Level: Intermediate
CEUS: 2.00 Texas CJAD (FV), SW, LMFT, LPC
Join Gael Strack and James Henderson in understanding strangulation in domestic violence cases – what it is and what is can tell us about the individuals who use it as a control tactic. We will look in particular at how BIPP facilitators can use this information to assess for lethality, hold abusers accountable, and keep survivors safe.
Level: Intermediate
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (FV), SW, LMFT, LPC
Lundy Bancroft reviews research findings and clinical observations regarding the impact that witnessing abuse toward their mothers has on children, the damage the abuser inflicts on mother-child relationships, and the direct mistreatment perpetrated by the abuser. Lundy explains how the domestic violence abuser’s choice to use violence, coercion, and control in his intimate partner relationship contributes to the instability and trauma of the children in the home.
Level: Intermediate
CEUS: 1.50 Texas CJAD (BIPP), SW, LPC, LMFT
Live Webinars
Training Approvals
Per the Texas BIPP Accreditation Guidelines, BIPP Facilitators need CJAD approved Initial Training and Staff Development training hours.
Many of the hours will be from pre-approved agencies listed in Appendix A, Section iv of the guidelines; however, some training from other agencies will apply to your BIPP work or Family Violence foundation and can be approved for your training hour requirement.
Please click the button below to submit your request, if you:
- Attended a training/conference/webinar and need CJAD approval.
OR
- Are interested in hosting a training and want to offer CJAD BIPP/FV hours for it.