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Investigator Meetup – 01/19/2023 2:00 EST, 1:00 CST – Open Chat

Get ready for a fantastic Friday stress-busting meet-up! We’re here to lend an empathetic ear and be your sounding board for whatever is on your mind. There’s no rigid agenda here – we’re keeping it free-flowing. Whether you’ve got complaints, […]

Investigator Meetup – 01/26/2024 2:00 EST, 1:00 CST – Open Chat

Investigator Meetup – 02/02/2024 2:00 EST, 1:00 CST – Open Chat

Investigator Meetup – 02/09/2024 2:00 EST, 1:00 CST – Beyond ChatGPT: Advanced AI concepts for Public Defender Investigators W/ Rocky Ramirez

We’ve all heard of Chat GPT and other generative AI tools – but how will we actually use them for casework? What other tools exist that we can use that will allow us to go beyond the limitations of generative […]

Investigator Meetup – 02/16/2024 2:00 EST, 1:00 CST – Open Chat

Investigator Meetup – 02/23/2024 2:00 EST, 1:00 CST – DUI – DID U INVESTIGATE With Kevin McClain

DUI – DID U INVESTIGATE With Kevin McClain Your client gets pulled over for a suspected DUI, what things should the officer do and say? If they conduct Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST), what do they accomplish and what should […]

RACIAL JUSTICE MEETUP

We will be led by guest speaker, Tony White. Tony works as the Director of Outreach at the Fletcher Group and is a seasoned advocate for those with substance use disorders and addiction. Tony will lead our meetup in a […]

Social Worker Meet Up – 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 swapping samples of interview forms, biopsychosocial assessments, and mitigation reports! Bring a sample of what you use to […]

Social Worker Meet Up – Starting the Year Off with Our Purpose

We are going to start our first meet-up of 2024 redefining and rediscovering our purpose! Inspired by the Ted Talk by Adam Leipzig (“How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes”) we are going to hone our elevator speech […]

Social Worker Meet-Up: Help! I Need an Expert (Witness)

Need help with this registration process? Watch this video. This meetup will discuss how we can brainstorm and identify, consult with, research, and prep expert witnesses with our team. Knowing when an expert witness is needed is one thing, finding one […]

Social Worker Meet-Up: Sample Swap!

Need help with this registration process? Watch this video. 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 […]

Social Worker Meet-Up: Social Work Meetup on Participatory Defense

Need help with this registration process? Watch this video. Have you heard of or used participatory defense? Check out this brief video overview by Raj Jayadev that explains the importance of participatory defense and how it can empower families and community […]

Social Worker Meet-Up: Supporting Clients’ needs 02-21-2024 12:00 EST

Need help with this registration process? Watch this video. In this week’s meet-up we are going to talk about the challenges we face in our roles related to supporting client needs when the court orders something that is seemingly out of […]

Social Worker Meet-Up: Tuesday edition – 03-05-2024 12:00 EST

Need help with this registration process? Watch this video. In 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 […]

Social Worker Meet-Up: Using Mitigation to Challenge the Presentence Investigation Report – 03-20-2024 12:00 EST

Need help with this registration process? Watch this video. The 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 […]

Social Worker Supervisors Meet-Up: Clinical Supervision and Mentorship

Need help with this registration process? Watch this video. Plan 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 […]