2022 Conference Keynote Topic and Speaker
Demystifying the Complexities of the Male Batterer’s Value Systems, His Criminality, and the Status of Batterer Intervention Programs
The keynote session will examine how batterers think, utilize language, interpret intimate relationships and will expose the batterers’ concrete and abstract beliefs.
A review of the components of criminality and the escalation of criminal behaviors impacting the batterers themselves, the victims, law enforcement, providers and society will be presented.
Current and future trends of Batterer Intervention Programs will be explored including the controversy of appropriate treatment, the challenge of evidence-based programming and the effectiveness of Batterer Intervention programs.
It will also address the rise in domestic violence cases during the COVID-19 lockdown.
About Dr. Jennie DiBartolomeo
Dr. Jennie DiBartolomeo holds a doctorate in Education from Clark University, specializing in Education Administration and training, a BA in Education from the University of New Hampshire, an MA in Individualized Education from Goddard College, and a CAGS in Language and Reading Education from Boston University.
She is a graduate of the part-time Police Academy in New Hampshire and the author of a workbook for providers and students entitled, “Mission Statement for Batterer Intervention Program Providers and Students.”
Dr. DiBartolomeo is a former Co-Chair of the Manchester (NH) Domestic Violence Council, former Complaint Investigator for the New Hampshire Department of Education, and former Undergraduate and Graduate Instructor in criminal justice, psychology, and education.
She has worked the domestic violence crisis helpline and served as a domestic violence volunteer witness victim advocate for A Safe Place and has provided family violence assessments for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. She wrote curriculum for the certification of Guardians ad Litem.
She is a former New Hampshire Auxiliary State Trooper who served in the areas of law enforcement training and provided educational consulting for the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council. She has given training specifically on domestic violence to various agencies such as the New Hampshire YWCA, Family Justice Institute in Manchester, NH, Merrimack County (NH) Visitation Center, International Visitor Leadship Programs (US Department of State), DOVE attorneys and medical staff at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, NH.
Dr. DiBartolomeo has especially provided training to New Hampshire law enforcement such as police departments, the Hillsborough County and Rockingham County Superior Courts and New Hampshire Department of Corrections.
Dr. DiBartolomeo has been trained in three different national batterer models, Wicklander-Zulawski anti-deception techniques and specialized training on strangulation by the Institute on Strangulation and has provided expert testimony on domestic abuse to various courts in New Hampshire ... Click here to learn more!
