VPA Basic Training Seminar

‘Harmonized and Integrated Program for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders.’

This was the topic being discussed by Ms. Charito A. Zamora, Regional Director of Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) during the Basic Training Seminar for the Volunteer Probation Aides (VPA’s) last April 12-13 at Balay Kalinungan in University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City.

Punong Barangay Lani Galleron and government worker Erwin Mabugat, the VPA’s of Cadiz City, had attended the two-day workshop where they learned the Philippine Parole and Probation System, Helping Process in a Community-based Treatment of Offenders and the Voluntarism in the Parole and Probation Supervision.

Galleron is the barangay captain of Luna, while Mabugat is the government employee assigned at the Information Management Unit of the City Mayor’s Office.

The two-day workshop was participated in by VPA’s from different local government units (LGU’s) in Negros Occidental. The VPA’s who attended were mostly barangay officials and government employees.

Mabugat hosted the closing ceremony.

It was facilitated by the Negros Occidental Parole and Probation Community Center.

The VPA is the arm of the Parole and Probation Administration of the Department of Justice for the fully rehabilitation and transformation of the qualified parolees./*