Events
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CRA Performance Standards
Zoom MA, United StatesNow, for the first time ever, CAFL is releasing performance standards for handling Child Requiring Assistance cases. The new standards will take effect February 19, 2024. They are being added to the Assigned Counsel Manual, available on CPCS’s website at Assigned Counsel Manual – CPCS Website (publiccounsel.net), and can be reviewed here. We will be […]
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CPCS MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM – MANAGERIAL EXCELLENCE – Application deadline January 15, 2024
Zoom MA, United StatesCPCS MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM – MANAGERIAL EXCELLENCE In 2020 we developed a two course CPCS Management and Leadership Program. Managerial Essentials are taught in MLP I. MLP II is an advanced program in Managerial Excellence. We are now accepting applications for MLP II (see end of post). Although MLP I is generally a prerequisite for MLP II, […]
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Defending Health Care Proxy Affirmations
Presenting by RC's Debra Dow, Deborah Hill Stevens and DCC Laura Sanford. More details TBA.
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Traumatizing and Unnecessary: Ending the Practice of Juvenile Strip Searches
Zoom MA, United StatesThis complimentary webinar is sponsored by the American Bar Association Litigation Section Children's Rights Litigation Committee Strip searches are harmful and traumatizing to children and youth, however they happen regularly in a wide-variety of settings such as jails and detention centers, residential facilities for "troubled teens," schools, before visits to incarcerated family members in correctional […]
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MHLD Wellness Committee: Mindfulness and Resilience
ZoomCPCS Wellness Committee invites BC Law Professor, Filippa Marullo Anzalone, to present: Mindfulness and Resilience Zoom Webinar Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kmS3EGCjRceOs-uJdO4ikQ NOTE: 1 CLE credit for each webinar for: CAFL, YAD, Adult Criminal, Post-Conviction, Mental Health Litigation, MHLD Appeals, SORB and SDP Panels, 2 CLEs for YAD Appeals
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Advocacy Amplified: Leveraging Social Service Expertise in Guardianship and Commitment Matters
Meet Olivia DuBois, the Director of Social Service Advocacy. •Learn about the purpose and benefit for yourclients to add SSEs to their defense teams. •Understand how SSEs are used in Mental HealthGuardianship and Commitment cases. •Describe the mechanics of obtaining an SSE forCPCS-assigned matters. 2 CLE Mental Health & Mental Health Appeals Register Here: Advocacy […]
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Drug Testing – Forensic Lab & Court Ordered Testing
More info to come
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NLT/Zealous Advocacy Training Spring 2024
CPCS hybrid New Lawyer/Bar Advocate Training - Zealous Advocacy in the District Courts. By application/invitation. The hybrid course will be a combination of live meetings as well as substantial self-directed learning through our learning management system (Talent LMS). The dates for this program are below. Live sessions are held at various CPCS office locations. February […]
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IT Training
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Cancelled: Monthly CAFL Race Equity Drop-In
Zoom MA, United StatesFebruary CAFL Monthly CAFL Race Equity Drop-In has been cancelled. CPCS is having an agencywide Black History Month Event on a very important topic that is taking place at the […]
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Cops Have Records Too: Using the Full Disclosure Database in Youth Defense Cases
Zoom MA, United StatesNOTE: 1 CLE credit for each webinar for attorneys on each of the following panels: YAD Trial & YAD Appeals. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdeugqToiHdCzI3eB0VT5aDNBXDO6b-4P