Training Updates from the OCR

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Training Tuesdays from the Office of the Child's Representative (OCR) is an email bulletin for OCR attorneys and other child welfare stakeholders detailing upcoming OCR sponsored or approved trainings, outside training opportunities, new resources, and more!  If you have questions or a training resource that you would like to see featured in a future bulletin, please contact info@coloradochildrep.org.

Limited Seats! 

National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Training

February 21-23, 2018 | NITA Headquarters, Boulder, CO

This training is open to only OCR attorneys and primarily for D&N GALs. Seats are limited and registration is on a first come, first served basis.

Non-D&N GALs: Contact your staff attorney if you are interested in attending.

The program will be devoted to trial skills preparation and you will need to commit to all three days.
 

Join us!

Core Competencies II

March 9, 2018 | Ralph Carr Building, Denver, CO

This is a required training for all new OCR contract attorneys.

Large Group Sessions will cover: permanency hearings, termination hearings, appellate issues.

Small Group Sessions will cover: permanency options (as outlined in the GRID); intimate partner violence; parental substance abuse; alienation; parental developmental disabilities. These sessions will be in a "round-robin" format, allowing for engagement and Q&A in small groups.

Registration coming soon! Watch the listserv registration information.
 

OCR Webinar - Save the Date!

Ethics

April 20, 2018 | 12:00pm - 1:15pm

A representative from the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel will present.

Registration and program information coming soon!

 

You're invited!

Excellence in Juvenile Defense Conference for JD GALs

April 26-27, 2018 | Ralph Carr Building, Denver, CO

Join us for the Excellence in Juvenile Defense Conference on April 26th and 27th, 2018!

Session topics will include challenging client's statements; competency; defending juvenile sex cases; direct file and transfer cases; education advocacy; expungement and deregistration; immigration; implicit bias; placement advocacy; and raising race.

AFCC Webinar

Implicit & Cognitive Bias

January 23, 2018 | 1:00pm-2:00pm 

Humans struggle with managing complex information, and there is little in law and psychology that is more complex than high conflict divorce. When engaging with individual family members, we are likely to have an instant reaction to what we see and hear. Additionally, when trying to understand family complexities, we are at risk of over-simplifying the material, limiting the information to a single story or engaging in heuristics such as anchoring or confirmatory bias. This webinar will address these potential influences with a focus on reducing their impact.

Host: Association of Family & Conciliation Courts

Presenter: Philip Stahl, PhD, ABPP, forensic psychologist providing consultation and expert witness testimony in child custody litigation
 

NCJFCJ

National Conference on Juvenile Justice

March 18-21, 2018 | San Diego, CA

This conference will explore gaps in services, discover new and improved practices, share cutting edge research, and motivate participants to explore positive case outcomes for youth involved in the delinquency system.

Some of the featured topics will include: alternatives to detention, trauma-informed justice, cross-over youth, deep-end youth, teen dating violence, ending solitary confinement, domestic sex trafficking of minors, anti-shackling alternatives, racial and ethnic disparity, school pathways to the justice system, brain science, child development, mental health, juvenile and family treatment drug courts, LGBTQ issues in the juvenile justice system, and unaccompanied minors in immigration. 

Child Welfare League of America

Building Resilience in Changing Times

April 26-29, 2018 | Washington, D. C

The 2018 National Conference, Advancing Excellence in Practice & Policy: Building Resilience in Changing Times, will highlight how organizations are advancing excellence in child and family services in changing times. Conference presentations will feature evidence-informed/evidence-based programs and practices and their related policies and tools.
 

AFCC 55th Annual Conference

Compassionate Family Court Systems: The Role of Trauma-Informed Jurisprudence

June 6-9, 2018 | Washington, D.C

This conference will explore gaps in services, discover new and improved practices, share cutting edge research, and motivate participants to explore positive case outcomes for youth involved in the delinquency system.

Some of the featured topics will include: alternatives to detention, trauma-informed justice, cross-over youth, deep-end youth, teen dating violence, ending solitary confinement, domestic sex trafficking of minors, anti-shackling alternatives, racial and ethnic disparity, school pathways to the justice system, brain science, child development, mental health, juvenile and family treatment drug courts, LGBTQ issues in the juvenile justice system, and unaccompanied minors in immigration. 

NCJFCJ Annual Conference

81st Annual Conference

July 22-25, 2018 | Denver, CO

This conference will explore gaps in services, discover new and improved practices, share cutting edge research, and motivate participants to explore positive case outcomes for youth involved in the delinquency system.

Some of the featured topics will include: alternatives to detention, trauma-informed justice, cross-over youth, deep-end youth, teen dating violence, ending solitary confinement, domestic sex trafficking of minors, anti-shackling alternatives, racial and ethnic disparity, school pathways to the justice system, brain science, child development, mental health, juvenile and family treatment drug courts, LGBTQ issues in the juvenile justice system, and unaccompanied minors in immigration.