Dawn Hopps, Supervisor, P.A.R. Program

The Partner Assault Response Program is a specialized educational/counselling program for individuals who have been assaultive towards a spouse or intimate partner. The goal of the PAR program is to hold offenders accountable for their behaviour and enhance victim safety. In Ontario, PAR Programs are part of the Domestic Violence Court Program.

Debbie Spence, Area Manager, Durham East Probation and Parole
Pat McCoy, Officer, Probation and Parole

Probation and Parole Services provides supervision, programming and service delivery to adult offenders, including those convicted of domestic violence that are serving sentences in the community as part of probation, provincial parole or conditional sentence orders.

Angela Townend, Program Supervisor, Catholic Family Services

Caring Dads program is designed for fathers who have abused or neglected their children and/or exposed them to abuse of their mothers. As part of the agency's Safer Families Program, this group will focus on fathers accountability for abuse, countering the attitudes linked to abusive and neglectful behaviors and on promoting healthy and nurturing relationships between fathers and their child and the child's mother.