Saturday, October 24 – Summit 2015
MORNING GENERAL SESSION
PLENARY
Militarization of Schools
Bridgett Ortega, Moderator | Assistant Dean of Experiential Learning, Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School
Emily Chiang | Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State
Hector Linares | Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Juvenile Defense Clinic, LSU Law Center
Hannah Proff | Staff Attorney for Juvenile Defense and Policy, Colorado Juvenile Defender Center
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Did My Age Make Me Do It? Using Adolescent Development to Attack Mens Rea as an Element of the Crime
Jenny Carroll, Wendy Wolf
- Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea
- Bibliography on Brain Science and Juveniles
- Commonwealth v. Evans (unpublished opinion)
- Fact Pattern
- Juvenile Mens Rea Brief Redacted
- Juvenile Specific Jury Instructions
- MA Statute – Chapter 265, Section 18
- PowerPoint Presentation
Using Personal Narratives & Political Momentum to Roll Back Youth Sex Offender Registration
Monika Germono, Lisa Minutola, Nicole Pittman
Litigating a Bench Trial
Randy Hertz
Breaking the Chains: Defender Tactics for Combatting Shackling
Christopher Northrop, David Shapiro
Immaturity, Trauma & Disabilities: A Developmental Framework
Marty Beyer
Breaking Into Prisons: Effective Advocacy for Youth in Out-of-Home Placements
Sandra Simkins, Jason Szanyi
Municipal Courts: The Next Frontier for Gault?
Elise Logemann, Mae Quinn
Effectively Working with Social Workers as Part of the Defense Team
Ahsley Ratliff, Ariel Test, Karen Yazmajian
- Formulating Dispositional Plans in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings
- Principles of Post-Dispositional Planning in Delinquency Proceedings
- PowerPoint Presentation
Managing the Media in Your Juvenile Delinquency Cases
Colleen Shaddox, Tamara Steckler
Mitigating School Threat Assessments and Challenging SRO Actions
Hector Linares, Hannah Proff, Nadia Seeratan
AFTERNOON GENERAL SESSION
SPECIAL GUEST
Robert L. Listenbee | Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice
SPOTLIGHTS ON THE FIELD
Silicon Valley De-Bug
Charisse Domingo | Associate Director, Silicon Valley De-Bug
Montgomery v. Louisiana
Marsha Levick | Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center
National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Justice Systems
Donald Ross | Founder, M+R Strategic Services
John Hildreth | Principal, IssueLink
Susan Roske | Assistant Public Defender, Clark County Public Defender Office, NV
U.S SUPREME COURT UPDATE
Angela Vigil | Director of Pro Bono & Community Service, Baker & McKenzie
PLENARY
Building Acceptance: LGBT Youth, Culture, and Families
Shannan Wilber, Moderator | Youth Policy Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen | Executive Director, Utah Pride Center
Kris Henning | Professor of Law and Director, Juvenile Justice Clinic, Georgetown Law Center
Caitlin Ryan | Director, Family Acceptance Project
- Caitlin Ryan, “Generating a revolution in prevention, wellness & care for LGBT children & youth”
- Family Acceptance Project Video Poster: Families Are Forever
- Family Acceptance Project Video Poster: Always My Son
- Family Acceptance Project Resource Flyer
- Family Acceptance Project Booklet Flyer
- Family Acceptance Project Bibliography & Resource List
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Dealing with Difficult Judges
Sandra Simkins
Update on the Confrontation Clause
Randy Hertz
Risk Assessment Tools: What’s a Juvenile Defender To Do?
Jaime Michel, Mary Ann Scali
Raising Race: The Defender’s Role in Challenging Disparities in Defense of Juvenile Clients
Kris Henning, Ellen Marrus
- Implicit Racial Bias Studies Annotated Bibliography
- Race and Adolescent Development Annotated Bibliography
- Race and Defenders Annotated Bibliography
Easier Than You Think: Collecting and Using Data to Affect Change for Clients
Megan Annitto, Stephanie Campos-Bui, Anne Lee
Reentry & Collateral Consequences: Minimizing the Damage of Juvenile Court Involvement
Serena Holthe, Pamela Jones
- Models for Change Innovation Brief: Avoiding and Mitigating the Collateral Consequences of a Juvenile Adjudication
- PowerPoint Presentation
Effective Campaigning: Lessons Learned from Key Policy Movements
Nicole Pittman, David Shapiro, Jason Szanyi
Effective Advocacy for LGBT Youth
Rourke Stacy, Shannan Wilber
Litigating Taped Juvenile Confessions: Lawyering with a Scalpel
Ann Roan
Taking Care of Your Brain: Vicarious Trauma & Compassion Fatigue
Patricia Kerig, Ashley Ratliff, Nadia Seeratan
- 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy According to Neuroscience
- Self Care Handout
- Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale
- Responding to Youth Disclosures About Trauma
- Responding to a Traumatized Youth Who Has Been Triggered
- Resources on Secondary Traumatic Stress
- Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale
- Debriefing the Trauma Team