Celebration of Probation Services Week 2022
Probation Services Week Commemorates the Work of Probation Professionals
NEVADA COUNTY, CA, July 12, 2022 – Chief Probation Officer Goldman announced at the Nevada County Board of Supervisor’s meeting that this year’s annual Probation Service Week will be taking place from July 17 – July 23, 2022, to honor probation professionals who work to keep communities safe and support the rehabilitative process for the justice-involved individuals under their supervision and care. Throughout the week, the Nevada County Probation Department will be showcasing the work Probation does throughout Nevada County to provide accountability, opportunity, and hope for justice-involved individuals -- making a true difference in the lives of people by using evidence-based rehabilitation that helps people achieve long-term success and sustainable community safety.
Chief Goldman stated, “Officers know for justice involved individuals to successfully re-enter into the community they need to be held accountable for the harm they have done to the community while at the same time providing them with the tools they need to be successful in the community.”
For decades Probation in California has led, collaborated, and defended effective policies within California’s justice systems. Probation is focused on ensuring accountability while helping justice-involved individuals transition out of the system permanently through transformative and evidence-based rehabilitation. Probation Departments are a connector in the justice system: interlacing and maximizing the resources available within the courts, local governments, law enforcement, social services, schools, non-profits and the community to reduce recidivism by carefully balancing direct human services and research-based deterrents and interventions. This approach provides the help and accountability needed to enhance safety and create hope.
During the July 12 Nevada County Board of Supervisors meeting a recent client of the Nevada County Probation Department shared her story of success. She focused on the support and guidance that she received from the staff at the probation department. She specified that she felt that officers were truly invested in her success, and she was forever grateful for the help. She is now a successful and productive member of the community.
The Nevada County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution commemorating Probation Services Week which states, “Community corrections professionals are a true force for positive change in their communities.”
Probation is an alternative to incarceration and connects services and needs to enhance community safety and the restoration of justice-involved individuals to enhance long term public safety. Probation officers are educated, and highly trained experts prepared to successfully manage the multifaceted needs of justice-involved individuals and community safety.
Chief Goldman said, “probation is the lynchpin of the local criminal justice system from intake to re-entry. We try and restore the harm individuals have caused to the community while at the same time bringing them back as a productive part of that same community they harmed.”
During Probation Service Week it is important to recognize probation officers and staff for their dedication to the people they work with and to our community.
