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Upcoming Seminar for August and September

Victoria Weeton seminar series

The Impact of Working with Sex Offenders - Vicarious Trauma, 20 September 2011 in Melbourne Download flyer here.

Meetings

The Victorian Offender Treatment Association's (VOTA) meetings will be held on or close to the third Monday of the month. All members and guests are welcome to attend. Members will be reminded via email (if supplied) a week prior.

Meetings consist of discussion about the management of VOTA, upcoming seminars and events, other projects being undertaken by VOTA and will in as many cases as possible be followed by a guest speaker.

All meetings will be held at 6.00pm at La Notte, 140-146 Lygon St. Carlton, 3053.

If possible, send an RSVP to Anita Kilkenny on secretariat@vota.org.au which allows us to make sure there is a chair for you.

In the news

• 'Unacceptable' delays for sex offender treatment - UK - 24 Jun 10
• Sexual predator treatment squeezes state budgets - 21 Jun 10
• GPS units fail to protect public from sex offenders - 19 Jun 10
• Sex offender program evaluation website
• Offenders graduate from treatment program - NZ - 16 Jun 10
• Sex offender rehabilitation 'should be compulsory' - 18 Jun 10
• Former music teacher sentenced to 25 years in prison for hundreds of child sex offences - 18 Jun 10
• Child sex predator walks free after 'remarkable' effort to change - Qld - 17 Jun 10
• Poland approves chemical castration for paedophiles - 09 Jun 10
• Psychological rehabilitation of offenders is not a lost cause - 03 June 10
• Plans for a public register of sex offenders stalls - WA - 29 May 10
• New program to help offenders make the change - SA - 26 May 10