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In this webinar, community leaders, researchers and practitioners will discuss the impacts of community violence on young people across the country. The panel will discuss how mentoring fits into holistic approaches to youth healing in the face of experiences with violence, how to tap into existing networks of youth-centered resources, current supports, and how to prevent the impacts of community violence on youth and young adults.

Sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of Justice and the National Mentoring Resource Center.

Race Matters in our criminal legal system. It affects what happens from initial contact with police on the street to the end of the case and everything in between. As part of being effective advocates for our clients, criminal defense lawyers face the challenge of confronting the difficult issues presented by race in America.

NACDL invites you to its 5th Annual event in historic Montgomery, AL, for this powerful program designed to help practitioners identify and confront issues of Racial Bias in our courts, the law enforcement community, by prosecutors, and yes, even the defense team. Attendees will hear from a variety of trial lawyers, academics, and experts who will offer their personal perspectives, strategies, and ideas on why Race Matters. Participants will leave with both a greater understanding of the issues and innovative tools to apply this knowledge. This seminar has been created to intentionally challenge you to push the envelope on your understanding of and willingness to attack racial bias in the criminal legal system.

Scholarships are available. Details about scholarships and further information - including a draft agenda - can be found by clicking on the registration link.

Race Matters in our criminal legal system. It affects what happens from initial contact with police on the street to the end of the case and everything in between. As part of being effective advocates for our clients, criminal defense lawyers face the challenge of confronting the difficult issues presented by race in America.

NACDL invites you to its 5th Annual event in historic Montgomery, AL, for this powerful program designed to help practitioners identify and confront issues of Racial Bias in our courts, the law enforcement community, by prosecutors, and yes, even the defense team. Attendees will hear from a variety of trial lawyers, academics, and experts who will offer their personal perspectives, strategies, and ideas on why Race Matters. Participants will leave with both a greater understanding of the issues and innovative tools to apply this knowledge. This seminar has been created to intentionally challenge you to push the envelope on your understanding of and willingness to attack racial bias in the criminal legal system.

Scholarships are available. Details about scholarships and further information - including a draft agenda - can be found by clicking on the registration link.

Race Matters in our criminal legal system. It affects what happens from initial contact with police on the street to the end of the case and everything in between. As part of being effective advocates for our clients, criminal defense lawyers face the challenge of confronting the difficult issues presented by race in America.

NACDL invites you to its 5th Annual event in historic Montgomery, AL, for this powerful program designed to help practitioners identify and confront issues of Racial Bias in our courts, the law enforcement community, by prosecutors, and yes, even the defense team. Attendees will hear from a variety of trial lawyers, academics, and experts who will offer their personal perspectives, strategies, and ideas on why Race Matters. Participants will leave with both a greater understanding of the issues and innovative tools to apply this knowledge. This seminar has been created to intentionally challenge you to push the envelope on your understanding of and willingness to attack racial bias in the criminal legal system.

Scholarships are available. Details about scholarships and further information - including a draft agenda - can be found by clicking on the registration link.

This symposium event aims to provide a forum to bring together pediatric institutions, physicians, researchers, community providers, and policy makers to discuss opportunities to reduce violence and promote safe and thriving communities. Light refreshments will be provided.

Featuring Grand Round Speakers Lois Lee, MD, MPH, Boston Children's Hospital and Eric Fleeger, MD, MPH, Boston Children's Hospital.

Zoom link available. Masking required for in-person attendance.

The symposium is presented by the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, iCan for Kids, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Advocate Children's Hospital, NorthShore University HealthSystem, and UChicago Medicine Comer Children's

This webinar is part of the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training Series from the The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.

This webinar series will use group discussion, engaging and interactive exercises, and presentations by expert staff and faculty to provide Juvenile Drug Treatment Court team members with tools and information to continue to improve the work they do to help children and families in regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Each session will take on a specialized topic useful for working with the diverse populations in each community.

The pipeline into children’s law needs to be diversified and children’s law as a field needs to be more accessible to people, including those with lived expertise. How we frame and talk about this work matters as does the language we use. Historically, organizations that employ children’s lawyers have been part of the problem, but we currently have an opportunity to be part of the solution. Join our speakers for an interactive discussion about these issues and hear ideas for solutions to make the field of children’s law more accessible.


Speakers:

Kirstin Evans, 2020-22 Gault Fellow, The Gault Center, Washington, DC

Leyda Garcia-Greenawalt, National Law School Student Organizer, National Association of Counsel for Children, Chicago, IL

Hector Linares, Coordinator of Skills & Experiential Learning and Clinic Professor, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

Shannon Moody, PhD, MSSW, CSW, Kentucky Youth Advocates, Louisville, KY

Chach Duarte White, Director of Legal Services, Justice Expansion Team, Legal Counsel for Youth & Children, Seattle, WA (moderator)

This program is presented by ABA Litigation Section and Children's Rights Litigation Committee

The Gault Center and the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic & Initiative invite you to the 2022 Racial Justice Training Series.

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.

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' Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Please join us to:
* 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
* Discuss data on "contempt of cop" arrests and use of force on youth
* Learn how implicit racial bias impacts our perceptions of adolescent speech and adolescent emotional responses to authority figures
* Understand how speech and language disorders impact police encounters with youth
* Consider how we can use data, research, and history in our case advocacy and systemic reform

This session will be built around Chapter 7, Contempt of Cop, of Prof. Henning's book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.

Participants will:
* Develop concrete and actionable strategies to use data, research, and history in individual client representation, policy advocacy, and systemic reform;
* Learn about the most recent data and research on the topic;
* Have an opportunity to submit questions in advance;
* Share local obstacles and potential solutions during the session;
* Receive handouts, including sample motions, pleadings, and updated annotated bibliographies.

This webinar will discuss how youth justice systems can shift resources to community-led and community-owned supports for youth. It is the sixth in a series of webinars examining the growing movement away from youth incarceration and toward community-centered alternatives. An expert panel will discuss strategies for providing communities with the funds, capacity, programs, and support necessary to ensure youth success.

The webinar is presented by the Columbia Justice Lab and the Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice.

Speakers include CORTNEY SANDERS, Senior Manager, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (MODERATOR); TERRI WILLIAMS, Chief Development Officer, Community Solutions, Inc.; YANNICK WOODS, Director, Criminal Justice Reform Program, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice; VALERIE SLATER, Executive Director, RISE for Youth

The Supreme Court of Illinois Judicial College presents this course designed to provide participants with a fundamental understanding of terminology and concepts related to the LGBTQ+ community. A general overview of LGBTQ+ learning topics will be presented, and supporting examples will be provided, allowing a wide audience to gain knowledge that is applicable in all court system settings. This course will provide foundational knowledge to be built upon in a second session in November.

1.5 CLE hours

It is time to end the unjust practices behinds girls' incarceration. There are at least 41,000 girls’ detentions and thousands more long-term commitments each year, typically in correctional facilities that mirror adult prisons designed for punishment and isolation. The young people who are put in these harmful settings are already some of the most marginalized youth in our country: they are disproportionately poor, LGBQ/TGNC, and Black, Native American, and Latinx youth who have experienced multiple forms of chronic generational adversity, usually from a young age—including housing instability or homelessness, child welfare involvement, sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, parental incarceration, historical trauma, discrimination, and many others. National research has consistently shown that girls and gender-expansive youth experience unique pathways into the youth legal system and have unique and distinct needs from diversionary programs. Despite these differences, girls and gender-expansive youth are most often left out of research, policy analysis, and programmatic investments, leaving systems unable to adequately respond to their needs. They end up arrested and pushed into the legal system because they are criminalized for their responses to trauma or the steps they take to protect themselves. Once in the system, girls and gender expansive youth are unjustly incarcerated for reasons that contradict best practice: to discipline noncriminal violations (like running away), protect the young person’s own safety, or provide access to services that all children have a right to receive in their own community.

This webinar will discuss the drivers of girls' incarceration, how community-based supports can disrupt those drivers, and how local communities can and are working to end the criminalization and incarceration of girls and gender expansive youth of color.