Domestic Violence Offender Treatment Program

Domestic Violence Offender

Treatment Program

Complete Your Court-Ordered Treatment at Our Tooele Therapist’s Office

A domestic violence charge can be serious. In Utah, if you have been charged or convicted of domestic violence, the court may order you to undergo a treatment program. At Sunset Counseling Services, we are authorized to provide this treatment by the state. Keep reading to learn about everything you need to do in order to meet the requirements set forth by the court.

Get Started

Do you want to bring peace to your relationships? Do you want to understand why your relationships are not working out? Do you see behaviors in yourself that you hated seeing in others within your own past? Do you wonder why you do the things you do?
We at Sunset Counseling Services, LLC in Tooele want to help you:

Be the person that brings peace to your relationships.
Understand effective ways to make correct decisions, even in very difficult situations.
Learn how to communicate more effectively.
Learn how to resolve problems of the past and make changes within yourself so they don’t happen again.

We believe all people can change and improve themselves.

Give us a call. We can help you make the changes you need to. We are here for you.

We recognize that working through a domestic violence incident can be difficult. Sunset Counseling Services in Tooele is here to help. “Bringing Peace to Your Relationships” is our domestic violence offender treatment program.

If you have been ordered by the court to receive domestic violence treatment services, you need look no further. Our group facilitators, Evan T. Kenison, LCSW and Heidi Vernon, AMFT, are domestic violence certified. Our agency, Sunset Counseling Services, LLC is licensed by the Utah Department of Human Services to provide this treatment.

Enrollment

Enrolling in our program is simple and is handled through our Client Portal. Follow the steps below to get started.

Gather All Required Documents

To save yourself time, we suggest that you gather the following documents before beginning:

GRAMA (Government Records Accesses & Management Act) Report

Only required if you or your partner has children.

Please expect 10 business days from the date of request for report to be available for pickup.

Division of Child & Family Services (DCFS)

305 N. Main St., Suite 239
Tooelle, UT 84074
Phone: (801) 833-7350

Office hours:

8am-5pm Monday-Friday
Closed weekends and holidays

Cost: $25

National Criminal History Record

Only required if you have a criminal history outside of Utah.
Also known as Identity History Summary.

https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/identity-history-summary-checks

Utah Criminal History Record (BCI report)

Must have been received within the past 14 days.
Not required if one has obtained National Criminal History Record/Identity History Summary

Bureau of Criminal Identification

3888 West 5400 South
Salt Lake City, UT, 84129
Phone: (801) 965-4445

Office hours:

8am-5pm Monday-Friday
Closed weekends and holidays

Cost: $15

https://bci.utah.gov/criminal-records

Police Report

Obtain from the police/sheriff department who documented the incident.

Court Orders

Obtain from the court clerk

Pre-Sentence Investigation (PSI)

Only required if you are on probation or parole.
Obtain from you probation of parole officer.

Some of these documents involve a waiting period from the date of request to receipt of the document. Your provider is required by the state of Utah to review these documents as part of your mental health assessment.

Collect Required Information

We will need the following information at the time you contact us to request enrollment:

Personal email address Required for the patient enrollment process. If you do not have an email account, you must register for an email account prior to calling our office. To create an account, go to www.gmail.com and click “Create Account.”
Personal phone number at which YOU can be reached.
Personal credit card information is required to hold an appointment for initial assessment.
Social Security Number
Medicaid number (if services will be paid for by state funds) We accept either private pay by credit card only or by Medicaid/state funds. If using state funds, your Medicaid number is required.
Court case number
Name of court (e.g. Tooele 3rd District Court, Tooele County 3rd District Court, Grantsville Justice Court, etc.)
Name of judge
Name of police or sheriff’s department The department who documented the domestic violence incident
Full names of each of your children for which you have custody
Prior mental health treatment provider(s) for:
- You, personally
- The child(ren) for which you have legal custody

Request Enrollment

Once you have gathered all the required documents and you have the information we will need, contact us to request enrollment in our program. After you have requested enrollment, we will set you up in our Client Portal where you can submit each of the required documents.

After all of these steps have been completed, we will schedule your mental health assessment. After your assessment, your provider will create an individualized treatment plan according to your needs. You can then complete your enrollment and begin participation in our treatment program to bring peace to your relationships.

**This program is designed for domestic violence offenders. If you have been the victim of domestic violence, we offer a range of counseling and therapy services that can help you work through this difficult time in a healthy way. Contact us today to learn about the ways that we can help you or your children.**