About Trial Skills
This 1-day program offers targeted trial skills training for child welfare professionals. Skill-building exercises build on lecture and discussion.
What You'll Learn
- Learn strategies in dependency cases to help children achieve permanency faster.
- Strengthen your ability to organize large caseloads and prepare for trial.
- Expand your knowledge of the rules of evidence.
- Improve your skills in examining and cross-examining witnesses in court.
- Gain practical experience working through child welfare court case scenarios with personalized feedback.
Cost/details: Anne Marie Lancour
Special Features
Benefits
- Each program is specially adapted for local practice and state law.
- Participants receive continuing legal education.
- Participants get a trial notebook/flash drive to organize and prepare for their next case.
- Trainers are experienced child welfare, child law, and parent’s attorneys.
Format
- Discussions
- Demonstrations
- Mock trial exercises
- Ask the experts
Tailored Training
NEW: ICWA Training
Our new Indian child welfare and tribal law program focuses on trial skills in cases involving children with Native American heritage.
Areas of Focus
- Cultural sensitivity
- Indian child welfare laws and tribal codes
- Tribal court jurisdiction
- Importance of conversations and observations
- Trust & relationship building
- How parties can work well together
Gila River Indian Community
Our work with the Gila River Indian community in Arizona has informed our trial skills training in Indian communities.
