Continuing Education​: Conferences and Seminars

​​​​​​​​​​​Indigent Defense Annual Conferences

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Sem​ina​rs​​

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• Defense of Youth Training Program 2025
• Gibson Funds Training - February 21st @ 1:30 PM
  

​​​​​Past Seminar​s​​​

• Defense of Youth Training Program 2024
  
• Things I Wish I Had Known Before My First Abuse and Neglect Case
  
• Ombudsman Training with Elizabeth Hardy
  
• 2024 Annual Conference (June 5 - 7, 2024) - Morgantown Marriott Waterfront
  
• Defending Youth with Education Advocacy - Free CLE (May 16, 2024)
  
• CPS File Sealing and Post-Dispositional Modification presented by Marie Bechtel​ (March 21, 2024)
• The Foster Care Ombudsman: Distinctive in Name and Service​ with Pamela M. Woodman-Kaehler​ (February 23, 2024)
  
• Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Consti​tutional Experimentation with Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton (November 16, 2023) 
• Defense of Youth Training Program (Once per month, 2023)
  
• Traumatic Brain Injury Webinar (July 7th, 2023)
  
• 2023​ Annual Conference
  
• Defending the Criminalization of Normal Teenage Behavior​ (November 18th, 2022)​
• Diversion and Truancy (September 30th, 2022)​
  
• Unintended Trauma from Defending Children​ (August 26, 2022)
  
• Juvenile La​w Boot C​amp (one day per week April 26th - May 25th, 2022) ​ ​​​​
  
• ​​"Pot Plane Trial" panel, the latest in the West Virginia Public Defender Services Legends CLE Series (March 25, 2022)
• Conducting Effective ​Deposi​tions in Habeas Cases  (February 25th, 2022)​
  
• Habeas Corpus Tips, Strategies, and Case Law ​(January 21st, 2022)
  
• ​Mitigation Training ​for Social Workers (December 10th, 2021)​
  

• ​Youth Competency 101 (November 19, 2021)
  

• Recovery Mont​h CLE Featuring Dr. Matthew Christiansen, WV ODCP (September 17th, 2021)
  

• ​​​Competency Complications Conversation: An Examination of the New Child Competency Statute​ (October 15th, 2021)
  
• ​Larry Pozner: Cross Examination, Science and Technique​s (August 20th, 2021)​
  
• ​Mitigation Training for Social Workers (July 9, 2021)
• Juvenile Detention Hearings (June​ 11th, 2021)​
  
• Impeachment at Trial (May 21st, 2021)​
• Attorney-Social Worker Collaboration for Holistic Defense (March 24 , 2021)
  
• Mitigation Training for Social Workers (February 10, 2021)
• Substance Use 101 (December 14, 2020)
  
• Law, Vicarious Trauma, and Moral Injury (December 3, 2020)
  
• Juvenile Defender Summit (October 21, 2020)
  
• Mitigation Training for Social Workers (June 12, 2020)​

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