2020 Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit
October 15-17, 2020
Virtual
NJDC is thrilled to be able to host our 2020 Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit virtually. Because bringing together this wonderful national community of juvenile defenders is so important to our collective work and psyche, you will find all the information you need for the 2020 Summit below.
If you are planning to request CLE credits for your attendance, please make sure to note all the applicable deadlines on the Continuing Legal Education Credits Information page.
In the Virtual Summit Bag:
- Continuing Legal Education Credit Information
- NJDC Racial Justice Statement
- NJDC Equity Statement
- Racial Justice for Youth: A Toolkit for Defenders
- Defender App
- Overdue for Justice: An Assessment of Access to and Quality of Juvenile Defense Counsel in Michigan
- Undervalued: An Assessment of Access to and Quality of Juvenile Defense Counsel in New Hampshire
- Advancing Youth Justice: An Assessment of Access to and Quality of Juvenile Defense Counsel in Oregon
- Collateral Consequences of Juvenile Court Involvement: Obstacles to Opportunities
- CAUTION: Collateral Consequences-Obstructing the Pathway to Young People’s Success
- Broken Contracts: Reimagining High-Quality Representation of Youth in Contract and Appointed Counsel Systems
- Summit 2020 Playlist
- NJDC Virtual Background (Burgundy)
- NJDC Virtual Background (Black)
2020 Juvenile Defender Resource Guide
Each year in conjunction with the Summit, NJDC publishes an annual Resource Guide which is a compilation of law review articles, studies, case briefs, court decisions, and other information relevant to juvenile defense from the preceding year.
2020 Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit Materials
To download materials from individual sessions at this year’s Summit, you will find the workshop in the list below. For your reference, you can download the complete Summit 2020 Agenda. If you are not logged into the NJDC site, some documents will prompt you to login or create a login in order to access the materials associated with the workshops (if you use Defender App, this is the login that you should use).
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Please note: only workshops with materials are listed below. For the full list of workshops, please refer to the Summit 2020 Agenda.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Opening Session
- Corrigendum: Does Seeing Faces of Young Black Boys facilitate the Identification of Threatening Stimuli?
- African American Adolescent Substance Use: The Roles of Racial Discrimination and Peer Pressure
- Prekindergartners Left Behind: Expulsion Rates in State Prekindergarten Systems
- ‘That is Why We Raise Children’: African American Fathers’ Race-Related Concerns for Their Adolescents and Parenting Strategies
- Examining Black Adolescents’ Perceptions of In-School Racial Discrimination: The Role of Teacher Support on Academic Outcomes
Friday, October 16, 2020
Electronic Monitoring: Incarceration By Another Name
Addressing the SRO Problem: Arguments for the Courtroom & the Policy Table
Decarceration, COVID-19, & Racial Equity
- Brief of the Office of the Public Defender and ACLU
- Response to Order to Show Cause
- Supreme Court Decision
- Respondents’ Table of Contents
- Certification of Alfred Kandell
- Certification of Darcella Sessomes
- Certification of Elana Wilf
- Certification of James Dickinson
- Certification of Jennifer LeBaron
- Certification of Joseph Krakora
- Certification of Lawrence Gregorio
- Certification of Michelle Ricci
- Certification of Suzanne Lawrence
- Notice of Motion for Leave to Participate as Amicus Curiae
- Statement of Interest of Amicus Curiae
- Rutgers School of Law Amicus Curiae
- Petition for Writ of Mandate
- Motion to Maintain the Decreased Population of Incarcerated Youth in Los Angeles
- Maintaining the Decreased Population of Incarcerated Youth in Los Angeles County
- APD Brief in Support of Petition for Writ of Mandate
- APD Detained Questionnaire
- APD DJJ Questionnaire
Defending Our Clients Effectively Despite the Pandemic
Practicing Racial Justice Through the Lens of Racial Trauma
Success, Not Supervision & Detention: Revoking Probation’s Chokehold on Youth Clients
- 2020 Youth Justice Work Group Progress Report
- Transforming Juvenile Probation: A Vision for Getting It Right
Trauma-Informed Practice & Advocacy
- Developmental Stage Epigenetic Modifications and Clinical Symptoms Associated with the Trauma and Stress of Enslavement and Institutionalized Racism
- Early Childhood Trauma Impact on Adolescent Brain Development
- Essential Elements of a Trauma Informed Juvenile Justice System
- Establishing a Trauma Informed Lawyer-Client Relationship
- Helping Traumatized Children: Tips for Judges
- Identifying Dual Status Youth with Trauma Related Problems
- McKinney v. Arizona Amicus Brief
- Responding to Youth Disclosures about Trauma
- Spotlight on Culture Conversations about Historical Trauma 1
- Spotlight on Culture Conversations about Historical Trauma 2
- Spotlight on Culture Conversations about Historical Trauma 3
- The Trajectory of a Traumatized Youth
- Tips on Youth Trauma for Juvenile Defenders
- Trauma Informed Legal Advocacy
- Trauma: What Child Attorneys Need to Know
Saturday, October 17, 2020
ABCs of Special Education Advocacy
Are You Recording?: Using Body-Worn Camera Laws & Recordings to Win Cases
- Memo of Law in Support of Client’s Motion to Dismiss
- Motion to Dismiss for the Chicago Police Department’s Intentional Failure to Preserve Evidence
- No Tape, No Testimony: How Courts Can ensure Responsible Use of Body Cameras (ACLU)
- Model Act Regulating Use of Wearable Body Cameras by Law Enforcement (ACLU)
- Policing Body Cameras: Policies and Procedures to Safeguard the Rights of the Accused (NACDL)
- Response Motion to Exclude Evidence
- Sample Subpoena for Multiple Weeks of BWC
Better Was Never Good Enough
(In)admissibility of Rap Lyrics, Other Artistic Expressions, & Social Media as Trial Evidence
- Knox v. Pennsylvania Amicus Brief
- Bell v. Itawamba County School Board Amicus Brief
- Brooks v. Mississippi
- Commonwealth v. Gray
- Elonis v. United States
- Gangsta Rap and Murder in Bakersfield
- Hannah v. State
- Motion in Limine to Exclude Rap Lyrics
- Poetic Injustice
- Rap on Trial Press Release
- Skinner ACLU Amicus Brief
- State v. Skinner Opinion
- Who’s Afraid of Rap?
Not in the Room Where it Happens: The Effects of Virtual Technologies on Juvenile Defense
- Challenges in Virtual Collaboration (Summary and Report)
- Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence
- How Video Changes the Conversation
- Making Decisions from a Distance
- Remote Justice Issue Brief
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