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Youth Defender Advocacy Program 2025

May 15, 2025

Agate Beach Inn, Newport, OR

Youth Defender Advocacy Program 2025

May 15, 2025

Agate Beach Inn, Newport, OR
Training areas include
  • Adolescent Development (Lesson 4)
  • Evidence and Objections (Lesson 27)


Youth Defender Advocacy Program (YDAP) (formerly known as JTIP, Juvenile Training Immersion Program)

Thursday, May 15 (approx. 10:00am–5:00 pm, (subject to change)

A special invitation-only delinquency training that involves large and small group work, plus interactive exercises led by inspiring trainers —
  • Jennifer McGowan, Youth, Rights & Justice, Portland
  • Keiler Beers, Metropolitan Public Defenders Office, Portland
 
$125 registration (no online registration). Limited space. There are no refunds or credits for cancellations.

Open to 27 attendees (OCDLA membership is required), one lawyer per judicial district, plus three practitioners from tribes whose administrative offices or tribal courts are located within Oregon. Let your contract administrator know you would like to attend, and call Crystal Herron, 541-686-8716, or email her, cherron@ocdla.org, to let her know. Deadline to register: May 5, 1:00 p.m.


The Gault Center and its partners developed the Youth Defender Advocacy Program (YDAP, formerly known as JTIP: Juvenile Training Immersion Program), a highly specialized, comprehensive trial advocacy training program for youth defense attorneys.

The YDAP was developed to alter the landscape of youth defense by providing the foundation for high-quality, meaningful representation of youth. Intended to serve as the gold standard in youth defense training, YDAP is designed for use in any jurisdiction. The YDAP curriculum provides general law and trial skills, while also being easily customizable to incorporate key state and local statutes, court rules, and caselaw so that each lesson is directly relevant to individual jurisdictions.

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TRAINER BIOS:

Jennifer McGowan is a supervising attorney with Youth, Rights & Justice, Attorneys at Law (YRJ), a non-profit law firm in Portland, Oregon. She has over 18 years of experience representing youth, children and parents in juvenile dependency and delinquency proceedings. She also oversees the SchoolWorks program at YRJ, where she represents clients in school disciplinary and special education cases. She is a certified JTIP trainer through the National Juvenile Defender Center and has developed and presented trainings throughout Oregon and Washington for over 14 years related to her work with young people involved in the juvenile court system.

Keiler Beers is an attorney in Metropolitan Public Defender's Parent | Child Advocacy Division. He specializes in cases involving restorative justice and Spanish-speaking clinets, and was a member of the Gault Center's 2023 class of Ambassadors for Racial Justice.



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Program subject to change.

CLE Credit
— Pending, General credits in Oregon. For information about other state accreditation, call OCDLA at 541-686-8716.
 

Agenda

10:45a - Introduction (5 min)
10:50 - The Basics of “Normative” Adolescent Development (10 min)
11:00 - Cognitive Development (15 min)
11:15 - Psychosocial Development (15 min)
11:30 - Brain Development (15 min)
11:45 - Social and Identity Development (5 min)
11:50 - Supreme Court’s Recognition of Developmental Science (5 min)
11:55 - Disabilities, Trauma and Victimization Affecting Normative Adolescent Development (10 min)
12:05p - Getting the Evidence in (10 min)
12:15 - Forensic Exercises: Adolescent Development (60 min)
1:15p - Lunch (1 hr)


Lesson 27: Evidence and Objections

2:15p - Evidence: The Basic Definition (10 min)
2:25 - Relevance (5 min)
2:30 - Laying Foundation for Various Types of Evidence (15 min)
2:45 - Objections (25 min)
3:05 - Evidence Blocking (25 min)
3:30 - Anticipation Objections to Defense Evidence (10 min)
3:40 - Forensic Exercise: Evidence and Objections (30 min)
4:10p - Adjourn   


Program subject to change

Investigation track

Venue

Agate Beach Inn, Newport
Book your room by April 21, 2025
The best way to find out about room availability is to call 541-265-9411, option 2. Make sure you mention you are with the OCDLA Juvenile Conference.

Call 541-265-9411mention that you are with the OCDLA Juvenile Conference
$131 hillside, 1 king or 2 queen beds
$171 ocean view, 1 king or 2 queen beds


Pet fees: daily pet fee of $30 for up to two pets weighing less than 80 pounds each, on a limited basis.
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Agate Beach Inn restaurant note: the Seaglass Bistro and Lounge is open for breakfast, 7:30 - 10:30 a.m. The lounge opens at 4:00 p.m. with limited menu, and the Bistro and Lounge is open for dinner, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

 

Materials

Let your contract administrator know you would like to attend, and call Crystal Herron, 541-686-8716, or email her, cherron@ocdla.org, to let her know.