User-Friendly Spanish for Probation Officers

Topics Covered:

  • Conduct basic introduction and identification conversations via telephone or in person
  • Leave a message for the client to contact you and convey the importance of that with the message taker via telephone or in person
  • Establish the residence, work or school, and leisure locations of the client via telephone or in person
  • Obtain basic information found on frequently used reporting forms from a client via telephone or in person
  • Recognize words and phrases that may indicate the threat of personal danger
  • Apply basic concepts of Latino culture to interactions with Spanish-speakers.

Who Should Attend:

  • Community Corrections
  • Adult & Juvenile Probation Officers

Training Hours: 16

Date/Time:

Feb 23 (01:00 am) - 25, 2009 (12:00 pm)

Price:

$150.00

Location Information:

Bexar County Juvenile Probation
235 E. Mitchell Street.
San Antonio, TX 78210

Hotel Information: *

Best Western
1103 E. Commerce
San Antonio, TX 78210
Phone: 210‐223‐4400

Overflow Hotel Information:

Melissa Knight is currently employed by the East Texas Police Academy. Prior to joining the instructional staff at the academy in 2002, Knight taught in the Texas public school system for nine years. Knight currently holds a Texas Peace Officer license, and is commissioned through the Kilgore Police Department.

For more information, contact:
,
Correctional Management Institute of Texas
George J. Beto Criminal Justice Building
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341-2296
Fax: (936) 294-1671
Phone:

Cancellation Policy:
If the participant has already paid, he/she will be refunded half the cost of the registration fee if written notice of cancellation is received by the Correctional Management Institute of Texas no later than ten (10) business days prior to the program. No refunds are available after this date, but substitutions of attendees are permitted. If no written cancellation is received and the participant does not attend the program, the participant/agency will be required to pay 100% of the registration fee if the registration fee was not previously paid.

* Unless otherwise noted, hotel arrangements are the responsibility of the participant.