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The Gault Center and the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic &amp; Initiative invite you to the 2022 Racial Justice Training Series.<br /><br />Join them for monthly interactive strategy sessions designed to bolster youth defenders’ racial justice advocacy with research, data, and themes from The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning.<br /><br />In this session, Prof. Kristin Henning and Mary Ann Scali, Executive Director of The Gault Center, will be joined by Dr. Shameka Stanford, Juvenile Speech-Language Pathologist; and Duci Goncalves, Deputy Chief Counsel of the Youth Advocacy Division at Massachusetts&#39; Committee for Public Counsel Services.<br /><br />Please join us to:<br />* Review the history of tension between Black and Brown youth and the police and understand how youth of color are socialized to fear and resent police<br />* Discuss data on &quot;contempt of cop&quot; arrests and use of force on youth<br />* Learn how implicit racial bias impacts our perceptions of adolescent speech and adolescent emotional responses to authority figures<br />* Understand how speech and language disorders impact police encounters with youth<br />* Consider how we can use data, research, and history in our case advocacy and systemic reform<br /><br />This session will be built around Chapter 7, Contempt of Cop, of Prof. Henning&#39;s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.<br /><br />Participants will:<br />* Develop concrete and actionable strategies to use data, research, and history in individual client representation, policy advocacy, and systemic reform;<br />* Learn about the most recent data and research on the topic;<br />* Have an opportunity to submit questions in advance;<br />* Share local obstacles and potential solutions during the session;<br />* Receive handouts, including sample motions, pleadings, and updated annotated bibliographies.