National Association of Counsel for Children

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Preview the presenters and sessions for our?Onsite?conference in Baltimore and our

Online?conference in September!?

Baltimore Marriott Waterfront?

Baltimore, Maryland?

August 22-24, 2022?

pre-conference: August 21st

Online Conference?

The Comfort of Your Home or Office?

September 21-23, 2022

Overflow Hotel:?

discount rate through August 14

Registration Rates:

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Child Welfare Law Specialists?$425.00?

NACC Individual or Organizational Member $550.00?

Non-Member?$750.00?

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Child Welfare Law Specialists $275.00?

NACC Individual or Organizational Member $300.00?

Non-Member?$500.00

Click??to become a member for a discounted rate!

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NACC's RED BOOK TRAINING COURSE?

Two Opportunities this Summer and Fall

All-Day Red Book Training in Baltimore

NACC's 45th Conference PreConference Add-on

Sunday, August 21, 9:30am - 5:00pm

Fall Online Red Book Training Course

Thursdays, Sept. 8 - Oct. 27?(no session Sept. 22)

Sessions begin at 5:00 pm ET

Attend the all-day Red Book Training in Baltimore and get the Online Red Book Training Course for FREE!

Whether you join us in person or online, NACC's Red Book Training is an exciting opportunity for practitioners to expand their knowledge of federal child welfare law and learn tips to enhance their representation of children, parents, or the agency.

These are the last courses based on NACC's 3rd Edition Red Book. Starting in 2023, NACC will present Red Book Training consistent with the upcoming 4th Edition Red Book to be published this Fall.

The course?covers major dependency practice competency areas and includes exam preparation strategies and tools for those intending to become certified Child Welfare Law Specialists.?The material covered in the course is drawn from?Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases?(3rd Edition).?

The registration fee for the all-day Baltimore Red Book Training and the online Red Book Training Course is $200 per person for groups and NACC members ($100 for CWLS; $275 for nonmembers).

The online?Red Book Training Course?includes access to live sessions, recordings, the electronic Red Book, and the RBTC workbook!??The online course is accredited for 8 hours of CLE in Colorado (50-minute hour). CLE approval in at least one state can streamline an attorney’s CLE application in another state. Check with your jurisdiction for details on simplified CLE applications and online/on-demand learning requirements. More information coming soon about onsite CLE accreditation.

The registration fee is?$200 per person for groups and NACC members?($100 for CWLS; $275 for nonmembers) and includes access to live sessions, recordings, the electronic Red Book, and the RBTC workbook! For more information and to view the course syllabus,?.

NACC's 1977 Disco Party

Join NACC as we celebrate our 45th Anniversary with a tribute to the music of the era at NACC's private party at Club Bellissimo, a 9-minute walk from the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront.??Music, dancing, and trivia from 1977 will be enjoyed. Appetizers, cash bar, and prizes (bellbottoms and sequins welcome!)

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Disco Party Pricing

• $19.77 - NACC Individual or Organizational Members, and Child Welfare Law Specialists
• $45.00 - Non-Members?

You do not have to be a conference attendee to join the party, but NACC conference COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols will apply to all.?

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Attendance at NACC's onsite conference in Baltimore requires agreement with??These protocols include signing the COVID-19 Waiver and Release, showing proof of vaccination and booster, and adhering to mask-wearing guidelines.

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Share Your Opinion With NACC This Summer

Are you an NACC member/CWLS, an office that engages people with lived experience in foster care, or an attorney who represents children??We want to hear from you!?Please participate in the survey(s) below and help NACC enhance its work.

Thank you for helping us promote excellence, build community, and advance justice!

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3 Surveys:?

?- For NACC Members and NACC Community?

As Team NACC conducts planning for 2023 and beyond, we want to better understand the interests, needs, and demographics of our members.

What services and resources matter most to you?

What would you like NACC to do differently?

Now is the time to share your thoughts--the suggestion box is open!

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?- For Offices Who Engage People With Lived Experience in Foster Care

NACC is conducting this survey to measure how children’s legal representation and policy advocacy organizations engage people with lived experience in the foster care system in organizational programs, policies, and operations.?

?-?For People Working at Children's Law Offices/Agencies

NACC is updating its Child Welfare Law Office Guidebook: Best Practices Guidelines for Organizational Legal Representation of Children in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases.?We want to hear from you - staff attorneys, contract attorneys, and others working within organizational structures to provide legal representation to children. We want to better understand the organizational and structural barriers as well as innovations/supports that affect individual attorney performance – what helps you, or prevents you, from providing high-quality legal representation to children and youth? Your answers will inform the content of the next Guidebook.?

Thank you for sharing your input and for being part of the NACC community!?

All survey participants will receive?25% off NACC’s Red Book Training Course?and be entered into a raffle for a free 3rd Edition Red Book. Each time you complete a different survey, you are entered again in the raffle for a Red Book!

Engaging, Supporting, and Advocating for Incarcerated Parents & Their Children

Friday, September 9, 2022

1:00-2:30pm ET/11:00am-12:30pm MT

Incarcerated parents and their children are at greater risk than parents who are not incarcerated of losing their relationship forever after the state initiates court proceedings. Incarcerated parents do matter and their ability to create, maintain, strengthen, and/or repair their relationship with their children during incarceration reduces harm to their children, improves child wellbeing in placement, and increases successful reentry and reunification of parents to community. Professionals working in this system have different roles but all can do better to uplift the parent’s voice in the court process; to engage early and actively with the incarcerated parent; to support their parent-child relationship, including the provision of remedial services, when needed; and to remove bias from decision-making in these cases that leads to unnecessary family separation. During this webinar, attendees will learn how legal practitioners and other decision-makers can change their outlook and advocacy when working with incarcerated parents.

Presenters:

• Stacey Allen-Chavez, Reunified Parent
• Cameron E. Buhl, JD, Managing Attorney, Infinitum Legal Counsel, P.S.
• D’Adre Cunningham, JD, Resource Attorney, Incarcerated Parents Project, Washington Defender Association
• Richard Pittman, JD, CWLS, Deputy Public Defender, Director of Juvenile Defender Services, Louisiana Public Defender Board

This webinar is FREE for NACC Members.?Members, please log in with your member ID when you register for this event.?This webinar is $45 for non-members.?Non-member webinar registrants will receive access to a?90-day trial NACC membership.?

Accredited for 2 hours of CLE in Colorado (50-minute hour). CLE approval in at least one state can streamline an attorney’s CLE application in another state. Check with your jurisdiction for details on simplified CLE applications and online/on-demand learning requirements.

Additional NACC Resources

:?While our membership includes children’s attorneys, parents’ attorneys, agency attorneys, and juvenile court judges; it also includes multidisciplinary professionals, including doctors, social workers, educators, and lay advocates with a specific interest in advancing the rights and well-being of children in the child welfare system. View our membership options and?!

:?The child welfare system often perpetuates racism, bias, poverty,?and the trauma of family separation against children and families of color.?NACC encourages advocates and practitioners to resist these injustices by demonstrating cultural humility, pursuing antiracist practices, confronting personal privilege and bias, utilizing a race equity lens when making decisions, and promoting diversity and inclusion.?

Children's Justice:?How to Improve Legal Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System:?NACC is pleased to offer?free access?to?by Donald N. Duquette, Britany Orlebeke, Andrew Zinn, Robbin Pott, Ada Skyles, and Xiaomeng Zhou?From 2009 to 2016, Professor Don Duquette at the University of Michigan Law School led the National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System?().?You can also??of the book with a shipping fee.

:?Check out NACC’s??for information about this landmark federal policy change and sample state agreements.?