2025 Juvenile Law Training Academy CLE Archive

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Juvenile Law Training Academy 
October 20–21, 2025 • Online via Zoom 

October 20  

Moderator: Sara Hernandez, Asst. Attorney General, Oregon Dept. of Justice
Guardianship, Part 1: Planning with Care, Establishing with Insight, and Supporting over Time

• Allie Fahsholtz, Statewide Adoption Placement Coordinator, Oregon Dept. of Human Services
• KayT Garrett, Sr. Asst. Attorney General, Oregon Dept. of Justice, Child Advocacy & Protection Division
• Elizabeth Tyson, Adoption and Guardianship Assistance Coordinator, Oregon Dept. of Human Services

In this session, participants will gain insight into what ODHS considers when proposing a plan of guardianship and the steps that must occur to implement a guardianship. Attendees will learn about the department's processes for identifying the plan of guardianship, assessing a guardian, selecting a guardian, and establishing guardianship assistance. This session will also address important considerations for mediation and post-guardianship supports. 

Guardianship Part 2: Dissolution

• Vickie Dethloff, Senior Asst. Attorney General, Oregon Dept. of Justice
• Rebecca Schaleger, Family Defense Practitioner, Oregon City

 Visitation Best Practices: Meeting Kids' Attachment Needs

• Freda Bax, Psy.D., MindSights, Portland

Parent-child visitation plays a critical role in supporting attachment and achieving successful reunification for children separated from their parents. This presentation explores how to determine the most appropriate type and frequency of visitation by considering a child’s developmental stage and the nature of their attachment relationship. Participants will learn how visitation activates a child’s attachment system and how this understanding can guide the creation, adjustment, and support of visitation routines. Attendees will leave better equipped to advocate for visitation plans that are both developmentally appropriate and attachment-supportive.

Understanding Safety Planning and Conditions for Return

• Leslie LaNier, Child Safety Program Coordinator, Oregon Dept. Human Services

This session provides CASA, CRB, and legal partners with an overview of Oregon’s Safety Model case practice, focused on in-home safety planning, conditions for return and the role of the family’s team. Participants will gain insight into the intent, purpose, and structure of in-home safety plans, the Department’s decision-making process, and how legal partners can support sufficient and sustainable safety planning. The training will emphasize how child safety, not service compliance, guides decision-making and offer practical strategies for collaborative oversight to promote families being together – stable and safe.


October 21
Moderator: Courtney Quale-Conrad, Deschutes Defenders, Bend 

Appellate Update

• Stacy Chaffin, Asst. Attorney General, Oregon Dept. of Justice   
• Christa Obold-Eshleman, Youth, Rights, Justice, Portland

Judicial Notice

• Lauren Kemp, Asst. Attorney in Charge, Oregon Dept. of Justice
• Ryan Newby, Metropolitan Public Defender, Portland

Judicial notice can be a powerful tool for courtroom efficiency, but what is judicial notice? How does it come into play in court generally, when should you use it, when should you object and how does it work in dependency cases and related matters? Listen to two experienced juvenile attorneys yammer on and argue about judicial notice and all its intricacies. Bring your questions!

Refugee Child Welfare Act

• Maggie Carlson, Youth, Rights, Justice, Portland
• ODHS Angelica Quintero, International Case Consultant, Oregon Dept. of Human Services
• Catherine Terwilliger, Asst. Attorney General, Oregon Dept. of Justice

This presentation will explore the origins and intent behind the Refugee Child Welfare Act. It will also explain ODHS policy and procedure around working with families that have been identified as having a refugee child.