Mitigation Specialist (MAACS) (Limited Term)

The Private Counsel Division of the State Appellate Defender Office seeks motivated and qualified applicants to work with incarcerated clients who are newly eligible for resentencing hearings under the Michigan Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling in People v Czarnecki and […]

Social Worker Supervisor Discussion Meetup

This meetup is a discussion for and with social worker supervisors supervising social workers, sentencing advocates, dispositional advocates, mitigation specialists and others performing these roles in indigent defense offices. Stephanne Thornton, NAPD Social Work Training and Resource Coordinator and Kevin […]

Social Worker Meetup: Being Trauma-Informed and Trauma Sensitive In Our Work

As we develop mitigation and begin to build rapport and a relationship with our clients, we are constantly aware of the harms that have been done to them, whether individually or on a macro level by communities or oppressive systems. […]

Social Worker Supervisors Discussion Meetup

This meetup is for supervisors of social workers, mitigation specialists, sentencing advocates, dispositional specialists, etc. – for those supervising these and similar roles in public defense offices. This month’s discussion meetup will continue from our conversation in August. Kevin Bishop, […]

A Conversation Between Lori James and Cessie Alfonso

Lori James is the Executive Director of the National Association for Public Defense, a social worker and mitigation specialist, who started her career as a social work intern under Cessie Alfonso’s supervision. Lori has served as mitigation specialist in many […]

Social Worker (10117147)

Objectives SummaryLOPD Social Workers ensure the delivery of defense oriented services throughout the state in support of a criminal defense team by developing plans for addressing client life situations that, if mitigated, may increase the opportunities to improve their lives. […]

Mitigation Specialist

Join Michigan’s State Appellate Defender Office (SADO) as a Mitigation Specialist working in SADO’s Direct Appeals Unit to represent people as they appeal their felony convictions and sentences. We focus on our clients as people and actively work to challenge […]