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SUMMARY:Social Work Meetup: Getting Creative with Data and Tracking Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Data collection in our work is vital for funding\, reporting to judges\, reports to stakeholders\, and expansion of our roles in our offices. What creative data are you measuring\, and what outcomes are you tracking (and how)? Come to this discussion to talk about your data collection efforts\, highlight your effectiveness and creativity with data\, and share your data collection goals! Special Tuesday edition of this meetup! \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 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 
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/social-work-meetup-data-2025-03-12/
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SUMMARY:RACIAL JUSTICE MEETUP - March
DESCRIPTION:Racial Justice Advocates\, \nIt’s time to march into another RACIAL JUSTICE MEETUP! \nTony White will join us again this year and lead a presentation entitled “Ensuring Equitable Access to Treatment and Recovery: The Role of Public Defenders in Connecting Clients with Substance Use Disorder Services.” \nLet’s connect and learn together! Meetup flyer\, agenda\, and speaker bio will be posted on the listserv. \nNot on the Racial Justice listserv? Send your request to be added to BGT\, DEIJ Coordinator\, at Brittanygt@publicdefenders.us. \nSee you soon\, NAPD!
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SUMMARY:Investigator Supervisor Meetup: 3-12-2025 - Open Chat
DESCRIPTION:Supervisors and lead investigators it’s the second Wednesday of the month so let’s chat about how things are in your offices\, with your cases and clients. \nJoin us! \n  \n 
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-supervisor-meetup-03-12-2025/
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SUMMARY:Social Work Meetup: Social Worker Supervisor Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This meetup is for social work supervisors who supervise other social workers\, mitigation specialists\, dispositional advocates\, sentencing advocates\, and social work interns in defense-based offices. This week’s discussion will focus on what is your supervisory style. Whether you have it or are still developing it\, what supervisory style do you possess or want to embrace\, and how are you getting there? \nThis month’s discussion is hosted by Stephanne Thornton. 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. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/social-work-meetup-2025-03-18/
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SUMMARY:Social Work Meetup: Open Chat
DESCRIPTION:This week’s meetup will be an open chat – open to discuss anything! If you want to highlight one of the great sessions you caught last week at NAPD’s Rise. Resist. Represent. Conference\, this is the space for that! If you have questions for the group – the space for that! If you want to bring up a topic to discuss and share – the space for that! Join the discussion where the topics\, questions\, ideas are driven by you! \n  \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 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.
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