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The 35th National Child Welfare, Juvenile, and Family Law Conference FamiLies matter advocacy for all Parties in the Child’s Best interests august 14 – 16, 2012 Pre-Conference: august 13 Historic Palmer House Hilton Downtown Chicago, IL Pre-Approved for Continuing Legal Education Credit National association of Counsel for Children 1.888.828.NaCC www.NACCchildlaw.org THe CONFERENCe sPONsORS The 35th National Child Welfare, Conference Juvenile, and Family Law Conference: Co-sponsors georgia Association of Families Matter — Advocacy for All Counsel for Children Parties in the Child’s Best Interests Lea for Justice, Inc. This conference is the NACC’s premier training and is the product of 35 Megan Louise Furth Youth years of experience. It is designed primarily for attorneys who practice child empowerment Fund welfare, juvenile, and family law. NACC members and attendees dedicate most of their practice to the representation of children and youth, parents, Northern California or the state in juvenile dependency, delinquency, or family law cases. Due Association of Counsel to the multidisciplinary nature of this work, professionals from the fields for Children of medicine, mental health, social work, probation, law enforcement, and Office of the Cook education also belong to the NACC, attend our conferences, and serve as County Public guardian faculty. The conference is comprised of Plenary and Breakout Sessions. Southwest Airlines New Breakout Sessions! St. Aemelian-Lakeside, Inc. This year Breakout Sessions will feature revised tracks: Cooperating Track 1 : Beginner — Sessions are aimed at practitioners with Organizations 0–5 years of experience in child welfare law; American Bar Association Track 2 : InterMediate — Targeted to those with 5–15 years Center on Children of experience in child welfare law; and the Law Track 3 : Advanced — For those with 15 years and beyond; American Bar Association Track 4 : Skills — This track features sessions designed to help Section of Family Law improve advocacy skills; American Bar Association Track 5 : geNeral Interest — This track features a variety of topics Section of Litigation, of interest to NACC members and conference attendees. Children’s rights Attendees are free to sign up for and attend any one of the five tracks Litigation Committee offered during the Breakout Sessions. Association of Family and Conciliation Courts For over a century, the Chinese American Bar Association of Illinois THe HOTeL Palmer House Hilton has been the Chicago meeting and Civitas ChildLaw Center event venue of choice. Loyola Law School Room raTe: Single $159 Family Defense Center Double $159 First Star Hispanic Lawyers reservaTions: Association of Illinois Online (http://goo.gl/9eDfI) or phone 312-726-7500 with korean American Bar Group Discount Code CLC; Association of Illinois Group Name: 2012 Annual Jane Addams Foundation Children's Law Conference. Legal Assistance Foundation Palmer House Hilton Cutoff Date: To receive National Child Protection Training Center 312-726-7500 the discounted room rate, palmerhousehiltonhotel.com reservations must be made Pakistani American Bar 17 E. Monroe Street • Chicago, IL 60603 by July 19, 2012. Association of Illinois page 2 Continuing Legal education (CLe) PRE-CONFERENCe NACC conferences are typically approved by the continuing education agencies in most jurisdictions and disciplines. Uniform certificates of attendance will be available to download after the conference for use monday august 13, 2012 in your jurisdiction. 9:00am–4:30pm NACC red Book Training Pre-Conference: Survey and Certificatione xam Prep Course in Child Welfare Law and Practice. red Book Training The course will follow the 2nd Edition of the Red Book (Child Welfare Law and Colorado • • • • • • • • • • • • General: 8 • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ethics: 1.2 Practice: representing Children, Parents, California • • • • • • • • • • • • General: TBD • • • • • • • • • Ethics: TBD and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases, Duquette and Illinois • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • General: 6.5 Haralambie, Bradford Publishing 2010). Identifying, documenting & Serving drug The course covers the major dependency practice competency areas and prepares endangered Children: A Collaborative response attendees for the NACC Child Welfare Between Criminal Justice & Child Welfare Attorney Certification Exam. Registration fee includes your own copy of the Red Book. Colorado • • • • • • • • • • • • General: 5 » Approved for CLE, including ethics. California • • • • • • • • • • • • General: TBD » Boxed lunch will be provided. Illinois • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • General: 3.75 » Separate registration and fee: $250 Three-Day Conference: 1:00–5:00pm Identifying, documenting & Colorado • • • • • • • • • • • • General: TBD Serving drug endangered Children: A Collaborative California • • • • • • • • • • • • General: TBD response Between Criminal Illinois • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • General: TBD Justice & Child Welfare Ignored, abused, and abandoned — these are some of the chronic conditions experienced by children raised in The NACC environments where there is drug Founded in 1977, the National Association of use, manufacturing, cultivation and distribution. Drug endangered children Counsel for Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit are part of a very large and growing child advocacy and professional membership population of children whose lives have organization dedicated to enhancing the well been seriously and negatively impacted being of America’s children and families. The by dangerous drugs. Attendees will gain an understanding of opportunities NACC is located in The Kempe Center on the to identify children living in dangerous campus of Children’s Hospital Colorado. drug environments and encourage intervention at the earliest possible point In today’s world, millions of children are the when endangerment is suspected to subjects of judicial proceedings each year. They reduce physical and psychological harm are involved in the court system as victims of to children; how exchanging information, altering activities, and sharing resources, abuse and neglect, as juvenile offenders, as enhances the capacity of each agency subjects of custody, visitation and adoption for the mutual benefit of all to achieve a proceedings, and as participants in civil damages common outcome; and provide better service to children and families. Attendees litigation. The NACC works to improve the lives will also learn more about what evidence of children and families by ensuring that these can be collected and documented that proceedings produce justice. shows the risk of neglect, physical or emotional abuse or exposure to criminal The adversarial system works best when all activity to help demonstrate the life of interested parties are competently represented. the child so appropriate services can be provided. And lastly, the course will The NACC works to promote a justice system review a multi-disciplinary response that wherein every child has his or her voice heard considers the unique and often limited with the assistance of well-trained, well-resourced resources within a community and how independent lawyers resulting in the child’s rights these resources can be coordinated and applied in a manner that allows the child to being protected and needs being met. receive better care. • Lori Moriarty, National Alliance for Drug Endan- gered Children • Stacee read, Office of Colorado’s Child Protection Ombudsman • eric Nation, 1-888-828-NACC Jasper County Sheriff’s Office, Newton Iowa NACCchildlaw.org » Separate registration and fee: $100 page 3 CONFERENCe 2:00–3:30pm Breakout B TrACk 1 : Beginner effective representation of very Young Children in dependency Proceedings • Candice Maze Tuesday, august 14, 2012 TrACk 2 : IntermediaTe Qualifiede xpert Witnesses under 7:30am registration Opens the Indian Child Welfare Act • Tana Fye 7:30–8:45am Continental Breakfast TrACk 3 : advanced Creating and Sustaining effective Local 8:45–10:15am keynote Address: Families Collaboration to Improve Outcomes Matter: Supporting Lifelong for Families and Children • Carolyn kirkwood • Diane Nunn Connections for Court- • Judge Juan Ulloa • Christopher Wu Involved Youth TrACk 4 : skills Judge Patricia M. Martin is the Presiding From Courtroom to Schoolroom to Judge of the Child Protection Division of the Conference room: A Practitioner’s guide Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois and to Advocacy at Informal Meetings • richard Cozzola • Erin Han President the National Council of Juvenile • Janeen Barth Schlotzer and Family Court Judges. She has chaired TrACk 5 : geNeraL InteresT the Supreme Court of Illinois Judicial dHHS enforcement of Child Welfare Standards: Conference Study Committee on Juvenile A Better Option Than reform Litigation Justice, and has been a member of other • robert Fellmeth • Steve keane • Christina riehl Illinois Supreme Court committees. 3:45–5:00pm Plenary Session I: Story-Telling 10:15–10:30am Coffee Break & Lawyering: Changing the 10:30am–12:00pm Breakout A Narrative in Child Welfare Professor Matthew Fraidin is a Visiting TrACk 1 : Beginner Professor at Georgetown University Law Healthy development & Well-being for Youth: What Your Client Needs to Thrive Center — where he teaches in the Domestic • Charlyn Harper Browne • Martha raimon Violence Clinic — and Associate Professor • Youth Presenter of Law and Director of the University of TrACk 2 : IntermediaTe the District of Columbia David A. Clarke Fathers and Children in Foster
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