About Us
What We're All About
We are a community-based alternative -sentencing program that specializes in working with violent offenders. Our programs were designed with a strong foundation in cognitive theory and tailored using best practices in web development.
Two years of professional development went into the creation of our training materials, making the needs of the client the primary focus, while ensuring that our lesson plans were closely aligned with the National Anger Management Association.
In addition to the coursework, individual and group anger management sessions are hosted by a Certified Anger Management Specialist, trained by N.A.M.A. and are held right here on our website.
Most courts are hesitant to allow online anger management programs as an acceptable form of alternative sentencing. We found a need to bring an evidence-based training program online and we are here to set the bar for the online community.
About the Creator
Whitney Rudkin has spent over three decades in the field of criminal justice. She began her career as a private investigator and owned a reputable private investigation agency in downtown Edmond, Oklahoma. She graduated with a B.A. in Sociology and then her M.A. in Criminal Justice Management and Administration in 2000 from the University of Central Oklahoma. She has taught as the Curriculum Director at a Charter School for At Risk Youth for the Oklahoma City Public Schools and has spent two decades as a professor teaching in the field of sociology and criminal justice. She has taught in the classroom, online, and via satellite for the inmates incarcerated in the care of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
She has had specialized training in defense investigations through the Oklahoma County D.A.s Office, child abuse investigations through the Oklahoma City Police Department, correctional officer training through the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Department, rape crisis intervention training through the Y.W.C.A., and anger management training through the National Anger Management Association. She is recently retired and remains an active volunteer for non-profits she holds dear. If you would like to review her full portfolio, click here.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide students, employees, offenders, and the individual with exceptional educational resources, guidance, and instruction which will aid in their self-enrichment, enhance their personal and working relationships, and give offenders the critical tools necessary to avoid incarceration.
Our goal is to promote change through evidence based and cognitive based therapy, practicing self-awareness and developing self-control over the thought process, in turn, motivating behavioral change. Our courses are a great fit for court ordered educational training, corporate continued education, health and wellness, as well as self-enrichment and self-improvement.
Our courses stand alone from other anger and violence programs that consist of just a workbook and pre-recorded lectures. We offer engaging activities, videos, and virtual simulations that engage the student in decision making. The students’ decisions affect the path of the simulations.
Students can work the curriculum at their own pace and on their own schedule. Our site is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They must, however, complete the coursework and attend the required number of group meetings before earning their “Certificate of Completion” Along with their online curriculum, they will be expected to keep an “Anger Log”, which they will be expected to bring with them to the group meetings. Upon graduation, the assessment will be taken again and the student will meet with their CAMS Specialist to discuss the tools they have learned in our program and be awarded a “Certificate of Completion’. The certificate can be verified by scanning the QR Code printed on the certificate and entering the certificate number on our website.
Each course includes an assessment called the AMASF (Anger Management Association Short Form), published by the National Anger Management Association (N.A.M.A.). The student will meet with a Certified Anger Management Specialist (C.A.M.S.) the first week of the program to assess his/her needs, discuss strategies in the curriculum and map out a plan of action. We will then review the expectations required for a successful completion of the course.
After meeting with a CAMS Specialist, the student will start the program by logging into the site and beginning the online coursework, which is closely aligned with N.A.M.A. We have the student alternate each week between the curriculum and group sessions.
Our individual and group meetings are facilitated by a Certified Anger Management Specialist trained by N.A.M.A. The student may choose to attend their group meetings in the traditional classroom (if in the Oklahoma City metro area) or on our video platform hosted on the tamer.world website.
Best Industry Leaders
Our mission is to provide students, employees, offenders, and the individual with first-rate guidance, teaching leading principles in controlling anger.
Learn at Your Own Pace
Our courses are a great fit for court ordered educational training, corporate continued education, health and wellness self-enrichment or self-improvement.
Professional Certification
Our Certified Anger Management Specialists are trained through the National Anger Management Association and have three decades of combined experience working in the field of Criminal Justice.