By Liz Wu, January 02 2013
The American Bar Association is seeking workshop proposals for their national conference on children and the law. Held in Washington, DC, "Raising the Bar: Lawyers as Partners for Family Well-Being" will feature emerging child welfare policy and systemic reform issues and their effects on practice, children and families.
Workshop proposals should address family well-being and ways to improve the skills of attorneys, judges and other advocates. Some of the topics likely to be covered at the conference include:
- Lawyers’ Role in Prevention vs. Intervention
- Bullying and Sexual Harassment
- Educational Needs of Young People
- School to Prison Pipeline
- Representing Older Youth
- Psychotropic Medication
- Partnering with Social Services
- Pregnant and Parenting Teens
- Needs of Youth who Identify as LGBTQ
- Evaluating Legal Representation Programs
- Trauma-Informed Legal Representation
- Child Trafficking
- Representing Undocumented Young People and Parents
- Interviewing Children
- Mediation
- Cross Over Representation
- The Affordable Care Act and Transitioning/Transitioned Foster Youth
- Minimizing Use of APPLA Goal
E-mail workshop proposals to Heidi Epstein by January 25, 2013.
Liz Wu is a Digital Accounts Manager at Prichard Communications, where she oversees digital outreach for Reclaiming Futures and edits Reclaiming Futures Every Day. Before joining the Prichard team, Liz established the West Coast communications presence for the New America Foundation, where she managed all media relations, event planning and social media outreach for their 6 domestic policy programs. Liz received a B.A. in both Peace and Conflict Studies and German from the University of California at Berkeley. She tweets from @LizSF.
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Updated: January 02 2013