In this workshop, we will present the role officer discretion plays in supervising mentally ill clients in Maricopa County. We will go over the range of options that officer can use in dealing with clients. Supervision strategies are geared for individual clients based on their individual needs and functioning levels. Officer are encouraged to decide on a treatment/probation strategy based that will help the clients be successful.
Alex Battest graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and minored in Sociology from Occidental College. She worked under Fred Wilhalme during an AmeriCorps internship and was hired on with Maricopa County Adult Probation in 2018. She...
Fred Wilhalme graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, with a concentration in Criminal Justice, from Monmouth College in New Jersey. He has been a probation officer for over thirty-four years and has been assigned to the SMI Unit...
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