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SUMMARY:Special Tuesday Meetup: Best of Edition\, Last of 2024!
DESCRIPTION:In this last social worker (sentencing advocate\, mitigation specialist\, dispositional advocate\, and others in similar roles) meetup for 2024\, on a TUESDAY\, we are going to have a “Best Of” meetup. What was the best thing you learned this year? What was the best skill you used this year? What was the best outcome in a case you got this year? What was the best advice you got to help you in this work this year? What was the best advice you gave? What was the best thing you read\, watched\, listened to that helped you in your work this year? This is our best of so come and share what your best was! \nStephanne 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 Social Work Training and Resource Coordinator for NAPD\, 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. \n 
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SUMMARY:Social Work Supervisors Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This month’s supervisor discussion will focus on the supervisee evaluation process. How do you evaluate thee practice of your supervisees and their work? Do you solicit feedback from attorneys? What evaluation tools do you use and how do you give your supervisees a voice about thee areas they feel are important for them to grow in? Come join in the discussion and continue to share your work and what you are wrestling with and interested in talking about as a social work supervisor! For supervisors of social workers\, mitigation specialists\, dispositional advocates\, and those in similar supervised positions. \nFacilitated by: Kevin Bishop\, LCSW\, Social Worker Coordinator with The Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel (CO); Michael E. Moore\, LMSW\, Social Work Supervisor with The Legal Aid Society\, Criminal Defense Practice (NY); and Claudia Dunne\, LICSW\, Director of Social Work & Private Social Service Vendors\, Youth Advocacy Division (YAD)\, CPCS (MA). \n 
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