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Dan Canon, civil right lawyer, teacher, activist, and author will discuss his book "Pleading Out, How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class" in a session hosted by NACDL President Martín Sabelli. Our speakers discuss how “pleading out” contributes to an unjust system and how to combat it to save the right to a trial.

We are thrilled to announce that the 2022 IPDA Spring Seminar will be in-person!!

While masks will not be required, we are taking several mitigation measures to protect the health and safety of all attendees to the best of our ability.

Fridays topics likely to include:

* Children’s Best Interests Act: Considering Children’s Needs When Sentencing Parents
* Case Law Updates
* SAFE-T Act: What is it? What does it require? Will it be amended?
* SAFE-T Act: Its Effect on Public Defender Offices
* AND MORE!!!

We are thrilled to announce that the 2022 IPDA Spring Seminar will be in-person!!

While masks will not be required, we are taking several mitigation measures to protect the health and safety of all attendees to the best of our ability.

Saturday will feature an entire track of panel discussions organized and selected the JDRC. Saturdays topics will include:

* Decriminalizing Disability: Advocating for Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile and Adult Legal Systems
* Emerging Adults/Miller: What Now? Part 1 & 2 featuring a case law update, a discussion of sample petitions, and how to develop a record to make an as-applied challenge with insight from a mitigation specialist.

Advancing Real Change (ARC), Inc. will be hosting a webinar featuring Jen Newton discussing Special Education Records.

Dr. Jen Newton holds the B.S. in Speech-Language-Hearing and the M.S. Ed in Early Childhood Special Education, both from the University of Kansas. She also earned the Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Kansas. Dr. Newton teaches courses in special education teacher education in assessment, behavior, and interventions. She served as an early interventionist and an inclusive prekindergarten teacher prior to pursuing doctoral studies. Dr. Newton's research interests include strengths-based approaches to families, early childhood inclusion and equity, and inclusive teacher preparation.

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

In this session, Prof. Kristin Henning and Ebony Howard, Deputy Director of The Gault Center, will be joined by Maheen Kaleem, Deputy Director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color, and Brittany Mobley, Deputy Chief of the Juvenile Services Program at DC Public Defender Service.

Please join us to:
- Learn about historical myths about the hyper-sexualization of Black youth
- Review the normal milestones of adolescent sexuality
- Discuss the disparate criminalization of the sexuality of youth of color in your jurisdiction
- Consider how we can use data, research, and history in our case advocacy and systemic reform

This session will be built around Chapter 4, Raising "Brutes" & "Jezebels": Criminalizing Black Adolescent Sexuality, 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.

While The Rage of Innocence focuses on Black youth, these sessions will also focus on advocacy for Latinx, Indigenous, Native American, and other youth of color.