"The American Bar Association is seeking workshop proposals for their national conference on children and the law. Held in Washington, DC, "Raising the Bar: Lawyers as Partners for Family Well-Being" will feature emerging child welfare policy and systemic reform issues and their effects on practice, children and families.
Workshop proposals should address family well-being and ways to improve the skills of attorneys, judges and other advocates. Some of the topics likely to be covered at the conference include:
- Lawyers’ Role in Prevention vs. Intervention
- Bullying and Sexual Harassment
- Educational Needs of Young People
- School to Prison Pipeline
- Representing Older Youth
- Psychotropic Medication
- Partnering with Social Services
- Pregnant and Parenting Teens
- Needs of Youth who Identify as LGBTQ
- Evaluating Legal Representation Programs
- Trauma-Informed Legal Representation
- Child Trafficking
- Representing Undocumented Young People and Parents
- Interviewing Children
- Mediation
- Cross Over Representation
- The Affordable Care Act and Transitioning/Transitioned Foster Youth
- Minimizing Use of APPLA Goal
E-mail workshop proposals to Heidi Epstein by January 25, 2013"
http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/blog/aba-workshop-proposals
From Reclaiming Futures.
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