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CAFL Appellate Panel Certification Training
2024-02-06 09:30 - 12:30, 2024-02-08 09:30 - 12:30 UTC

Monthly CAFL Race Equity Drop-In
2024-04-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
April’s Race Equity Drop-In session will continue the discussion started at our March 20th training, Using Data in Litigating Race Part I: How to Find, Request, and Use Race Data to Advance Your Client’s Position. Join us on April 3rd, from 1-2PM as we lend more time to review and process what we have learned from lecturers Emma Knight, Data Coordinator and Paralegal with the Trial Panel Support Unit, and Cris and Debbie Freitas, partners at Freitas & Freitas, LLP, Lowell. We hope you come with any questions you may still have and feel free to share your experiences with how you may have used data in racial litigation.
Please consider these questions we will use to guide the conversation.

What questions do you still have about how to find data resources?
What ways have you already used data in litigating racial bias in court?
What legal issues have already been challenged using race data?
How would you go about this in the future?

If you have a question about using data to litigate racial issues in one of your cases, you can send it to us in advance (anonymously if you prefer) and we can brainstorm together at the drop-in. You can send us a short case description, along with any other questions in advance to cafltraining@publiccounsel.net.
If you are unable to attend the March 20th training, no worries! Everyone is welcome to attend and join what promises to be a very enriching conversation. Register Here. Approved for 1 CAFL CLE.

Kids Charged in Congregate Care
2024-04-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Presenters: Carly Pedersen & Melanie Roberts
NOTE: 1 .5 CLE credit for each webinar for attorneys on each of the following panels: YAD Trial & YAD Appeals.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvdeGhqj4iHNUGLx0Hy0y757fHSgAcpNO7

Children on the Stand – Principles and Best Practices
2024-05-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
NOTE: 2 CLE credit for each webinar for attorneys on each of the following panels: YAD Trial & YAD Appeals; Criminal Defense (Trial and Appeals), CAFL (Trial and Appeals), and SDP/SORB.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItduigpz4qGdxGnzKR-p1ELhMoPCPcEKw7

What is this Medication For?
2024-05-30 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
Youth Defenders practicing in Juvenile Court will gain an introductory understanding of the effects and side effects of medications commonly prescribed to the children they represent. They will also examine how implicit bias affects prescribers’ decisions and learn strategies for critically evaluating provider diagnoses and prescriptions and how to incorporate this information into their advocacy.
NOTE: 1.5 CLE credit for each webinar for attorneys on each of the following panels: YAD, CAFL (Trial and Appeals), SDP/SORB, and Mental Health.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf-6trjooGNItawQQky0hvqqPNDCYd2RZ

Adulting for Lawyers: Representing Transition Age Youth Episode III
2024-06-11 13:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
Remember the most excellent first and second episode of Adulting for Lawyers: Representing Transition Age Youth? Come join us on Zoom June 11 from 1 to 4:30 pm for the third part of the training. A keynote will provide inspiration and practical advice, the rest of the program will provide information and tools to do the work as well as perspectives from those with lived experience. We will talk about helping transition age youth navigate DCF, whether they plan to stay with DCF or leave. We will hear from experts on topics including housing, longtime family connections, and finding other resources for our emerging adult clients. There will be a keynote address from Julie Segovia, Vice President, Research, Policy, & Learning of Hopewell, Inc. and someone with lived experience in the system.
NOTE: 3.5 CLE credit for each webinar for attorneys on each of the following panels: CAFL, CAFL Appeals.
Register here!

Our Clients Are Not Voiceless: Supporting Clients Speaking in Court
2024-10-08 14:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
Save the date! More information coming soon.
