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Probation Services

Cor. Queen Street and Henry Street,3rd floor ANSA House | Port of Spain | | Trinidad y Tobago

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Contact Data

Phone

868-769-8715
868-623-8180<br />Fax: 868-624-3988

Web

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Business hours

8.00 am-4.00 pm Monday to Friday

Institution

Type of organisation
Gubernamental/Pública - Nacional
Year of foundation
1947
Institutional presentation
Mission To promote the rehabilitation of probationers, offenders, victims and dysfunctional families through education, research and advocacy. Vision To become an effective and efficient functionary within the socio-legal network and to promote the philosophy of probation.
Direct beneficiaries
  • No consumen drogas
  • Usuarios experimentales de drogas
  • Usuarios de drogas en general
  • Consumidores problemáticos de drogas
  • Ex consumidores de drogas
  • Grupos motivacionales (donde hay consumidores y no consumidores)
  • Mujeres con uso problemático de sustancias
  • Mujeres con hijos a cargo
  • Personas sin hogar
  • Personas diagnosticadas de patología dual
  • Personas con VIH/SIDA
  • Minorías étnicas
  • Grupos específicos –mujeres consumidoras de crack, trabajadoras sexuales, personas que inhalan solventes, jóvenes que dejan el sistema educativo…
Target population activities
  • Familia / Padres
Objective of the centre/ services
The main goals and objectives are to facilitate the resolution of people's issue, to build strong functional families as the foundation of society and promote sound values system among the population with emphasis on the socially displaced person, the disabled, substance abusers and Most at Risk Population (MARPs).
National coverage
national coverage as well as international coverage- deportees

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Inserción / Integración social
  • Intervenciones en el Sistema Penal
  • Reducción de Riesgos
  • Reducción de Daños
Intervention framework for Inserción / Integración social
  • Apoyo al empleo
Intervention framework for Intervenciones en el Sistema Penal
  • Familia
  • Prisión
  • Comunidad
Intervention framework for Reducción de Riesgos
  • Testeo de sustancias
Intervention framework for Reducción de Daños
  • Servicios de asistencia básica (duchas, alimentación, lavandería, etc)
Activities
  • Acogida
  • Acompañamiento
  • Coordinación
  • Educación para la salud
  • Formación
  • Información
  • Intervención socio-educativa familiar
  • Intervención socio-educativa individual
  • Orientación
  • Trabajo de calle
Description of the main activities
The main duties performed regarding certain Legislation are aimed at providing social history reports in both criminal and family matters (domestic violence, custody, access, maintenance), to assists the Court in determining sentences. • Preparation of pre-sentence reports in both the Magistrates’ Courts and High Courts. • Prepare reports for the Appeal Courts • Supervise and facilitate the rehabilitation of those Offenders placed on statutory probation. • Prepare suitability reports and supervise persons placed on Community Service and Combination Orders. • Supervise children at risk at the request of the Court. • To counsel parties referred by the Court in all family related matters and submit reports where necessary. • To counsel walk in clients referred by agencies or persons outside of the Court system. Specialized duties include Probation Officers working in collaboration with the Judiciary, Police, Director of Public Prosecutions and a Treatment Providers in monitoring the progress of participants in treatment for substance abuse in the Drug Treatment Court. Supervise young men and women between the ages of sixteen (16) and thirty (30) years placed on bail. Teaching them about reasoning, emotional intelligence and accountability. To prepare reports for other stakeholders such as Ministry of Social Development and Family Services and Comptroller of Accounts Orphan Pension Committee and Foreign Social Service

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