Social Worker Meet-Up: Sample Swap!

This meet-up for social workers, sentencing advocates, mitigation specialists, dispositional advocates, and others in similar roles will be spent discussing, sharing, and showing examples of mitigation reports, sentencing prep reports, and other written mitigation work! Bring a redacted sample of what you use to share on screen and we will talk about and view examples to help us gain ideas in our work!

Stephanne Cline Thornton is a West Virginia native who has worked in and around criminal defense and mitigation for more than 20 years in Georgia, Colorado, and West Virginia. She is currently the Clinical Director for the West Virginia Judicial and Lawyer Assistance Program, and owner of Transform Legal, a consultancy focused on mitigation, training, and sustainability. As a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Master Addiction Counselor, Stephanne focuses on proper assessment for and access to trauma and substance use disorder treatment to ensure the health and well-being of affected individuals. Stephanne is on the Trauma-Informed Care Network Speakers Bureau and uses that platform to call attention to the intersection of secondary traumatic stress and legal practice. She approaches her work with clients, lawyers, social workers, and mitigation specialists through a contextualized mitigation lens.