Current and previous CLE trainings are available to view here. Please reach out to Sonia Copple at sonia.n.copple@wv.gov if you are interested in upcoming seminars at PDS, or if there is a past seminar listed that you would like to see PDS do again in the future.
Seminars
Upcoming
- Better Briefs in Plain English (presenter Ryan Donovan) & Understanding Title XIX Waiver While in BJS and DOHS Custody (presenter Jill Fox)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Date and Time: March 27th at 1:30 PM
Registration Link: Zoom Registration - Sunlight: Strengthening Communication, Coordination, and Support Across Public Defense (presenter Valerie Frost)
Duration: 1 hour
Date and Time: April 17th at 1:30 PM
Registration Link: Zoom Registration
Previously Held
- The Power of the Improvement Period - March 2026
- Adjudication of Youth Defense Cases & Problems with BJS Facilities- February 2026
- Working with People with Co-occurring Substance Use Disorders and Other Mental Health Disorders w/ Dr. Jeremy Hustead - February 2026
- Mark Kennedy of Aetna Better Health of West Virginia - January 2026
- Defense of Youth Training Program March-December 2025
- Abuse and Neglect Appeals - December 2025
- Parental Resource Navigators - The GPS for Family Success - October 2025
- Drug Testing Methods - September 2025
- Dried Blood Testing - Abuse & Neglect CLE - August 2025
- 2025 Annual Conference - June 2025
- Gibson Funds: What Works and What Doesn't - May 2025
- Gibson Funds Training - February 2025
- Defense of Youth Training Program August - December 2024
- Things I Wish I Had Known Before My First Abuse and Neglect Case - November 2024
- Ombudsman Training with Elizabeth Hardy - October 2024
- 2024 Annual Conference - June 2024
- Defending Youth with Education Advocacy - May 2024
- CPS File Sealing and Post-Dispositional Modification - March 2024
- The Foster Care Ombudsman: Distinctive in Name and Service with Pamela M. Woodman-Kaehler - February 2024
- Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation with Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton - November 2023
- Traumatic Brain Injury Webinar - July 2023
- 2023 Annual Conference - June 2023
- Defense of Youth Training Program - May 2023 - January 2024
- Defending the Criminalization of Normal Teenage Behavior - November 2022
- Diversion and Truancy - September 2022
- Unintended Trauma from Defending Children - August 2022
- Juvenile Law Boot Camp - April - May 2022
- "Pot Plane Trial" panel, the latest in the West Virginia Public Defender Services Legends CLE Series - March 2022
- Conducting Effective Depositions in Habeas Cases - February 2022
- Habeas Corpus Tips, Strategies, and Case Law - January 2022
- Mitigation Training for Social Workers - December 2021
- Youth Competency 101 - November 2021
- Recovery Month CLE Featuring Dr. Matthew Christiansen, WV ODCP - September 2021
- Competency Complications Conversation: An Examination of the New Child Competency Statute - October 2021
- Larry Pozner: Cross Examination, Science and Techniques - August 2021
- Mitigation Training for Social Workers - July 2021
- Juvenile Detention Hearings - June 2021
- Impeachment at Trial - May 2021
- Attorney-Social Worker Collaboration for Holistic Defense - March 2021
- Mitigation Training for Social Workers - February 2021
- Substance Use 101 - December 2020
- Law, Vicarious Trauma, and Moral Injury - December 2020
- Juvenile Defender Summit - October 2020
- Mitigation Training for Social Workers - June 2020