2024 Juvenile Law Training Academy CLE Archive
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Juvenile Law Training AcademyOctober 8, 2024 • Online via Zoom
The recording is available in 3 parts.
PART ONE
Moderated by Leslie C. Wolf, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice Child Advocacy and Protection Division, Portland
Family Time: Understanding and Developing Quality Family Time and Contact Plans
Erin Lane, Lead Policy Analyst and Coordinator, Oregon Department of Human Services
This presentation will support participants’ understanding of current Child Welfare practice for engaging and coordinating family time. The agency recognizes the value and importance of family time for child welfare involved families and this presentation delves into its efforts to have policy and practice reflect the guiding principles of the Vision for Transformation.
"I DON'T WANT TO GO": When Children Resist or Refuse Parent Contact in Dependency Cases
Wendy Bourg, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Portland
Anna Fuller, Senior Asst Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice
Erin Lane, Lead Policy Analyst and Coordinator, Reunification and Permanency Programs, Oregon Department of Human Services
Lisa Kay Williams, Youth, Rights, Justice, Attorneys at Law, Portland
Panelists will discuss case law, statutes, administrative rules and procedures, as well as psychological research implicated in circumstances of children resisting or refusing contact with parents.
Tribal Sovereignty: What It Means and How Attorneys Help Protect It Through ICWA—Access to Justice credit
Adrea Korthase, ICWA Analyst, Juvenile and Family Court Programs Division, Oregon Judicial Department
Ann Tweedy, Professor of Law, University of South Dakota
There are currently 574 Federally Recognized Tribal nations in the United States, which are pre-existing sovereigns that each have their own form of government. It is important to understand sovereignty to understand how Tribal nations interact with federal, state, and local governments. A number of federal laws honor and protect that sovereignty, including the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which was passed in 1978 to prevent the mass removal of American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families and tribes. After this session, attendees will be able to explain what tribal sovereignty means, how it applies to ICWA, and how attorneys play a part in protecting the sovereignty of Tribal nations by complying with the letter (and spirit) of the law with ICWA.
Juvenile Law Section Awards
PART TWO
Moderator: Taylor Rose, Attorney, North Bend
Fentanyl—The Brain, the Dependency System, and Building a Bridge to Recovery — Mental Health/Substance Use credit
Justine Kilsby, Family Treatment Court Analyst, Juvenile and Family Treatment Programs Division, Oregon Judicial Department
ABA Safety Framework for Judges & Attorneys: How do we make the most important decisions about family?
Rob Wyman, Attorney, Judicial and National Engagement Team, Casey Family Programs
Federal and State constitutional law gives us broad guidance that families possess a sacred liberty interest in their freedom from State intervention and that the State must intervene to protect vulnerable citizens from significant harm, including harm to children in their homes. We will explore an analytical framework that helps courts organize and talk about a clear factual record, so that findings, conclusions, and orders are well supported; and we will consider awareness of our human decision making process and how we can give attention to our perspectives, deepen our compassion and humility, and work toward justice for families in our courts. This session will be a brief primer for a more in-depth court improvement effort led by Oregon CIP in 2025, supported by Casey Family Programs.
Appellate Update
Stacy Chaffin, Senior Asst Attorney in Charge, Oregon Department of Justice Appellate Division
Elena Stross, Deputy Defender, Oregon Public Defense Commission Juvenile Appellate Division
PART THREE
Ethics of Remote Proceedings and Hearings—Ethics credit
Ankur Doshi, General Counsel, Oregon State Bar
LeAnna Erickson, Juvenile Advocates of Clackamas County, Oregon City
Amanda J. Marshall, Juvenile Advocates of Clackamas County, Oregon City
Lydeah Mercado Negro, Asst Attorney in Charge, Oregon Department of Justice
This program will cover many RPCs including on duty of competence, communication, confidentiality, witness testimony issues and more. Using several hypotheticals, presenters will engage the audience with the ethics of the attorney in representing clients under remote settings.
Programming planned and coordinated by the 2024 Juvenile Law Training Academy Workgroup:
Jayne Cooper, Oregon Judicial Department, Juvenile & Family Court Programs Division
KO Berger & Kevin Hupy, Office of Public Defense Services
Ginger Fitch, Youth Rights & Justice
Kristen Lewis, CASA for Children and Oregon State Bar Juvenile Law Section
Shaun McCrea & Jennifer Root, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Hannah Vaughn, Department of Justice Child Advocacy and Protection Division
Tricia Swallow, Citizen Review Board
Alex Trotter, Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare