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SUMMARY:Investigator Meetup - 03/01/2024 2:00 EST\, 1:00 CST - Open Chat
DESCRIPTION:Hey Investigators\,\nWe understand how things can get stressful\, and we’re here to make it better. Our meetup? It’s more of an open conversation—no strict agenda.\nIt’s Friday\, a perfect day to let off steam! Bring your complaints\, quirks\, and successes. Let’s hang out!\n 
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-meetup-03-01-2024-200-est-100-cst-open-chat/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
LOCATION:https://publicdefenders-us.zoom.us/j/87895561683
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SUMMARY:Social Worker Meet-Up: Tuesday edition - 03-05-2024 12:00 EST
DESCRIPTION:Need help with this registration process?  Watch this video.   \nIn this special Tuesday edition of our social worker meet-up (for social workers\, sentencing advocates\, dispositional advocates\, mitigation specialists\, and others in similar roles) we are going to discuss mitigation theories! There will be a sample scenario reviewed and we will talk about the strength of different theories and why we might select one theory over another. Join the meeting on this special day\, Tuesday\, March 5! \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.
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/social-worker-meet-up-tuesday-edition-03-05-2024-1200-est/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T140000
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SUMMARY:Investigator Meetup - 03/08/2024 2:00 EST\, 1:00 CST - Open Chat
DESCRIPTION:Hey Investigators\,\nWe understand how things can get stressful\, and we’re here to make it better. Our meetup? It’s more of an open conversation—no strict agenda.\nIt’s Friday\, a perfect day to let off steam! Bring your complaints\, quirks\, and successes. Let’s hang out!\n 
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-meetup-03-08-2024-200-est-100-cst-open-chat/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
LOCATION:https://publicdefenders-us.zoom.us/j/87895561683
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T140000
DTSTAMP:20260420T161129
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T221826Z
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SUMMARY:Join us for the March 2024 edition of the RACIAL JUSTICE MEETUP!
DESCRIPTION:We will be led by guest meetup speaker\, Stephanie Thornton. Stephane is NAPD’s Social Work Training & Resources Coordinator and has worked in and around criminal defense and mitigation for more than 20 years in Georgia\, Colorado\, and West Virginia. In honor of Social Work Month\, Stephanne will lead us in a historical review and critical discussion about the whitewashing of social work and its impact on racial & social justice. Don’t miss it!\n\nThe meetup agenda\, speaker bio\, and reminders will be posted on the listserv.\n\nBe sure that you don’t miss a Racial Justice Meetup (every second Tuesday of the month) or our discussions by adding our calendar and joining the listserv.\n\nNot on the listserv? Send your request to be added to the racial justice listserv to BGT\, DEIJ Coordinator\, at Brittanygt@publicdefenders.us.\n\nSee you there!
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/join-us-for-the-march-2024-edition-of-the-racial-justice-meetup/
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LOCATION:https://publicdefenders.us/event/join-us-for-the-march-2024-edition-of-the-racial-justice-meetup/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T150000
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SUMMARY:Investigator Supervisor meetup - Come Join us! 3-13-2024
DESCRIPTION:Supervisors\, leaders and senior investigators \nPlease join us next Wednesday for our monthly meetup\, bring your concerns\, issues and successes! \nSee you then!
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-supervisor-meetup-come-join-us-3-13-2024/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
LOCATION:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-supervisor-meetup-come-join-us-3-13-2024/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240314T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T123000
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SUMMARY:2024 Rise. Resist. Represent. National Public Defense Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:2024 Rise. Resist. Represent. National Public Defense Virtual Conference will provide over a dozen  topic areas to provide to the wide variety of professions and practice areas in public defense across the country. There will be skills training\, but also opportunities to explore innovations\, systemic litigation\, development research projects – and to network with thousands of colleagues who champion the right to counsel and for the opportunity and dignity of their clients. \nSee the most current listing of confirmed sessions.   More being added daily. \nCheck out the current schedule – still developing \nCheck out the outstanding speakers bios \n  \nPricing \nBefore Jan 29 \n\n$75 individual\n$50 each ticket – bulk for 5-100\n$25 each ticket – bulk for 101 and above\n\nJan 30-March 1 \n\n$100 individual\n$75 each ticket – bulk for 5-100\n$50 each ticket – bulk for 101 and above\n\nMarch 2 and after \n\n$125 individual\n$100 each ticket – bulk for 5-100\n$75 each ticket –  bulk for 101 and above\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/rise-resist-represent-national-public-defense-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T140000
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SUMMARY:Social Worker Supervisors Meet-Up: Clinical Supervision and Mentorship
DESCRIPTION:Need help with this registration process?  Watch this video.   \nPlan to join the next supervisors discussion and talk as supervisors in the social work role about this work. The next meeting is scheduled for March 19\, 2024 at 10aPDT/11aMDT/12pCDT/1pEDT and the topic for discussion will be about clinical supervision and mentorship. Bring your thoughts\, questions\, highs\, and lows. We’re looking forward to the discussion. \nThe Supervisor Discussion for those in the Social Work role is jointly facilitated by Kevin Bishop\, Michael Moore\, and Claudia Dunne. \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. \nKevin Bishop\, LCSW\, Social Worker Coordinator with The Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel (CO);\nMichael E. Moore\, LMSW\, Social Work Supervisor with The Legal Aid Society\, Criminal Defense Practice (NY)\nClaudia Dunne\, LICSW\, Director of Social Work & Private Social Service Vendors\, Youth Advocacy Division (YAD)\, CPCS (MA).
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/social-worker-supervisors-meet-up-clinical-supervision-and-mentorship-03-19-2024-100-edt/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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LOCATION:https://publicdefenders-us.zoom.us/j/84420649329
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T130000
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SUMMARY:Social Worker Meet-Up: Using Mitigation to Challenge the Presentence Investigation Report  - 03-20-2024 12:00 EST
DESCRIPTION:Need help with this registration process?  Watch this video.   \nThe presentence investigation report is often a report generated by probation about aspects of our client’s life\, but it does not tell the story of the client in the same way mitigation does. How can we use mitigation to challenge the presentence investigation report (whether through our work or representation by the attorney of our work)? How can we ensure mitigation exists and the client’s story is told when a presentence investigation report tells a different story? How can we get creative when a document by probation or the state is telling a rote or one-sided story of our client (including presenting information that is untrue)? These questions will be discussed and explored during this meetup\, so bring information from your jurisdiction about presentence investigation reports\, how your office handles them\, and what you would like to know to creatively introduce mitigation! \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.
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/social-worker-meet-up-using-mitigation-to-challenge-the-presentence-investigation-report-03-20-2024-1200-est/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T140000
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SUMMARY:Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:This webinar will focus on five hundred years of embroidery and incarceration. Content is drawn from Isabella Rosner’s new zine\, Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration\, published by Common Threads Press. Isabella will be joined by Laura Moseley\, founder and head of Common Threads Press\, a small\, UK-based press that specializes in radical histories of crafts and making. \nIsabella Rosner is Curator of the Royal School of Needlework\, Research Associate at Witney Antiques and host of the Sew What? podcast.\n\nIsabella is an art historian who studies material culture from the seventeenth through nineteenth century. She specializes in the study of early modern women’s needlework\, especially British examples\, and schoolgirl samplers across all time periods. Isabella is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and has just completed her PhD at King’s College London\, where she studied Quaker women’s needle\, shell\, and wax work before 1800.
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/stitching-freedom-embroidery-and-incarceration/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T150000
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SUMMARY:Investigator Meetup - 03/22/2024 2:00 EST\, 1:00 CST - Abusive Head Trauma: What we know about Shaken Baby Syndrome
DESCRIPTION:Hi fellow investigators\, \nWe have a special guest this week\, Jessica Curci\, RN from Godoy Medical.  She’ll be talking about Abusive Head Trauma also known as Shaken Baby Syndrome. \nHere’s how they describe it:  … Non-accidental trauma cases involving retinal hemorrhages\, intracranial bleeding\, and cerebral edema are complex and involve several specialty areas of medicine. Our experts will review the medical records and help determine what kinds of experts may be needed. We will assess for mimics\, determine the timeline of injury\, and provide opinions about causation. \nCome Join us\, \nJon \nP.S. An NAPD staff member will be the host for this session. \n 
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-meetup-03-22-2024-200-est-100-cst-abusive-head-trauma-what-we-know-about-shaken-baby-syndrome/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
LOCATION:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-meetup-03-22-2024-200-est-100-cst-abusive-head-trauma-what-we-know-about-shaken-baby-syndrome/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T143000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Women's History Month: Purpose\, Passion\, and Power!
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Women’s History Month for an empowering webinar designed for the fierce and dedicated women in public defense. \nSpeakers:\nCynthia Roseberry\, Director\, Policy and Government Affairs\, Justice Division\, American Civil Liberties Union\nColette Tvedt\, Chief Municipal Public Defender\, Office of the Municipal Public Defender\nGem Jones\, Management Consultant\, Currently serving as Arkansas Empathy Network Lead at Dream.org\nChelsea Hawkins\, Lead Mitigation Specialist\, Kent County Office of the Defender\nLori James-Townes\, Executive Director\, NAPD \nAs we navigate through our careers and personal journeys\, we often encounter moments that challenge our resolve. This is why our theme\, Purpose\, Passion\, and Power\, resonates so deeply within our community. \nEven on the toughest days\, it is our purpose that sustains us. It’s not just about what we do\, but the spirit with which we do it. And yes\, while power has been wielded against us\, it is also ours to claim and channel towards creating positive change. \nAs multifaceted women\, we bring a spectrum of strengths and perspectives to the table.\nThis webinar isn’t just a gathering; it’s a celebration of who we are and all that we’ve accomplished. It’s a call to arms for all women in public defense to stand tall\, embrace their power\, and continue the vital work of shaping a just world. \nSave your spot today and be part of this inspiring event where we’ll delve into meaningful discussions\, share stories of triumph\, and strategize on how to further empower ourselves and our communities. \nTogether\, let’s celebrate our purpose\, ignite our passion\, and unleash our power.
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/celebrating-womens-history-month-purpose-passion-and-power/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T150000
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SUMMARY:Investigator Meetup - Open Chat
DESCRIPTION:Hey Investigators\, We understand how things can get stressful\, and we’re here to make it better. Our meetup? It’s more of an open conversation—no strict agenda. It’s Friday\, a perfect day to let off steam! Bring your complaints\, quirks\, and successes. Let’s hang out!
URL:https://publicdefenders.us/event/investigator-meetup-03-29-2024-open-chat/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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