Continuing Education: Conferences and Seminars
Current and previous CLE trainings are available to view here. Please reach out to Adara Farris at adara.m.farris@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
- Abuse & Neglect Training: Domestic Violence Presentation by Teresa Lyons
- August 21, 2026 - 1:30 PM
- CLE Credit: 1 Credit Hour Domestic Violence
- Register Here (required)
- Regional State Bar Meetings & Complimentary CLE
- August 28 - WVU College of Law
- Morgantown, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- September 11 - Embassy Suites
- Charleston, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- September 18 - Marshall Health Network Arena
- Huntington, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- September 25 - Giovanni's Pizza
- Chapmanville, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- October 9 - The Blennerhassett Hotel
- Parkersburg, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- October 16 - The Gaines Estate
- Fayetteville, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- October 30 - The Bridgeport Country Club
- Bridgeport, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- November 5 - The Bavarian Inn
- Shepherdstown, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- November 6 - South Branch Inn
- Moorefield, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- November 13 - Oglebay Resort
- Wheeling, WV | 10 AM - 1 PM
- August 28 - WVU College of Law
- Public Defender Services 2027 Indigent Defense Annual Conference
- June 2 - 4, 2027 at Embassy Suites, 300 Court St., Charleston, WV 25301 (Time TBA)
Previously Held
- When Things Change: Modifications, Revocations, and Post Disposition Advocacy in Youth Cases and Having Difficult Conversations - June 2026
- Disposition - May 2026
- Overview of Autism Spectrum Disorder - May 2026
- Understanding the Title XIX ID/DD Waiver Program While in BJS or DoHS Custody / Using a Youth Defense Interview Form - April 2026
- Sunlight: Strengthening Communication, Coordination, and Support Across Public Defense - April 2026
- Better Briefs in Plain English - March 2026
- 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