Description
This course is offered through NAPD Academy. The course is available on Talent LMS. Purchasers are responsible for providing a list of recipients to help@publicdefenders.us at the time of purchase.
This course is intended for anyone working in indigent defense (in any job category), who would like to increase their tools and strategies to sustain their own well-being and support the well-being of other defenders. Working in public defense has very real impacts on our well-being. Though we must maintain our physical and mental health in order to provide high quality and client-centered representation to the people we represent, we face constant obstacles of working within under-resourced agencies, being exposed to trauma, and handling casework demands that challenge our boundaries and rest. This course is intended to support development of individualized strategies to sustain well-being while working in public defense, community care strategies to create public defense culture supportive of well-being, and strategies to build supportive culture, and advocate for systemic change to support indigent defense and increase access to justice.
