Online Course – History Matters: Unleashing the Potential of Your Defense

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Online Course History Matters: Exploring the Power of History and Unleashing the Potential of Your Defense Strategy
February 18 – April 8, 2025
PRICE $450 for members $550 for non members
REGISTRATION DEADLINE – February 10, 2025 AT 5:00 PM EASTERN | 4:00PM CT | 3:00PM MT | 2:00 PM PT
Apply for a scholarship – Deadline Feb 6
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This 8-week course includes weekly 90-minute Small Group Meetings: Tuesdays at 3:30-5:00pm ET | 2:30-4:00 pm CT | 1:30-3:00 pm MT | 12:30-2:00 pm PT
Course Description: This course is a must-take for attorneys, investigators, mitigation specialists, social workers, and all defense team members who want to conduct thorough investigations to answer questions essential to defending individuals impacted by the criminal legal system. Where we and our clients come from matters, but how often do we collect and litigate information that tells a story of the historical impact, traumas, and social context of prejudice and oppression and how it affects our clients? History is directly linked to many issues affecting our clients’ lived experiences. History warns, informs, and encourages the merits of the profession in us more than ever. This course will give participants the tools to conduct such an investigation. This course will include lectures from nationally recognized experts. In small group sessions, faculty and coaches will assist participants with an active case to complete a multi-level historical investigation that would be helpful at any dispositional phase of your case.
Course Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Utilize strategies and tools to investigate and humanize clients’ lives.
- Elevate litigation and mitigation tactics to protect and affirm clients’ due process rights.
- Review studies, research, reports, etc., documenting the impact of violence, injustice, and poverty on clients’ well-being and long-standing effects.
- Participate in and model normalizing forthright dialogues about the relevance of history and its social context to clients’ lived experiences via discussion boards and group discussions.
- Increase awareness, appreciation, and utilization of the impact of historical trauma, prejudice, oppression, culture, and community trauma.
- Support each other in a small group space for debriefing, brainstorming, incubating ideas, and providing accountability for goals.
Weekly Small Group Meetings: Tuesdays each week beginning at 3:00 pm ET | 2:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm MT | Noon PT
Course Faculty: Dr. Sharon Jones-Eversley and Dr. Donavan Bailey, with additional guest faculty