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Forensic Social Work: Evidence-based practices & the dual role

When
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Online WEBINAR
Registered
50 registrants

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Member
Non-member – $29.00
Student – $19.00

Presenter: Tom Granucci, LCSW

ONLINE ZOOM MEETING - WILL NOT BE RECORDED

Costs: CSCSW Member: FREE | Students: $19 | Nonmember (with CEUs): $29

CEUs: 1.5

Description:

Forensic social work includes a wide range of criminal and civil practice. This presentation will focus on mental health treatment and collaboration with supervision in the community of persons involved in the criminal justice system. The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model is the evidence-based practice in correctional treatment proven to reduce recidivism. The presenter will cover how to integrate this model with evidence-based mental health and substance use treatment to develop effective individualized and comprehensive treatment plans. The presentation will also cover the challenge of the dual role of care and control inherent in this work and how social workers can ethically manage the challenge. Finally, the presenter will ask attendees to examine themselves as to whether they are the right fit for this field.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

List three components of an evidence-based forensic treatment/supervision plan.
Identify three best practices of an effective probation/parole and mental health collaboration.
Describe the challenge of the “dual role” required of forensic mental health workers.
Describe the professional and personal characteristics of workers who effectively balance the dual roles of care and control with forensic clients.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Tom Granucci, LCSW. Tom worked for 13 years in the mental health field before joining the U.S. Probation Office in 1999. Tom retired from the U.S. Probation Office in 2019 after 20 years of service. His mental health career included outpatient work with severely mentally ill adults and adolescents (including adolescents who had committed sex offenses), residential treatment with adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system, and managed mental health and substance abuse care.

As a U.S. Probation Officer/Mental Health Treatment Specialist, Tom managed a specialized caseload of mentally ill clients and sex offenders for 8+ years. As a Supervisory U.S. Probation Officer for 8 years, he led a team of six officers and was a leader in evidence-based practices (EBP) implementation. In 2015, he assumed the role of the Central District of California’s first EBP Coordinator. As such, he was responsible for EBP implementation in the second largest federal district in the U.S., which included 7 counties and 12 field offices.

Tom was an original member of the California State University, Los Angeles Forensic Social Work Advisory Board and was a part-time faculty member in the School of Social Work from 2003 to 2019 teaching forensic social work and recovery in mental health. Tom has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California (FMHAC) for ten years, serving as the Chair of the Annual Conference Planning Committee.