Past Events

2019 Events

HYLN Roundtable on Increasing Access to Legal Services for Youth Experiencing Homelessness in Northern Virginia (November 15, Fairfax, Virginia)

NAEHCY (National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth) 2019 Conference (November 2-5)

(Section of State and Local Government Law) (ON-DEMAND CLE) The Demise of Single-Family Zoning and other Legal Strategies for Addressing Affordable Housing (October 11, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

(WEBINAR) Unaccompanied Youth: A Vulnerable Population (September 27) ft. Commission Director Kelly Russo and Commissioner Michael Santos

Census 2020: Litigation, Data Confidentiality, and Getting Out the Count (August 9, San Francisco, California) (View the ABANews coverage)

Advocate for Survivors: Trafficking of Homeless/At-Risk Youth and Young Adults in the Bay Area and How Lawyers can Make a Difference (August 9, San Francisco, California) (View the ABANews coverage)

Increasing Legal Services for Those Experiencing Homelessness in Contra Costa County (August 9, San Francisco, California)

Homeless Court at Stand Down (June 28-29, San Diego, California)

FREE CLE: Addressing the Legal Needs of Students Experiencing Homelessness (June 20)

Michigan Spring Meeting (June, 2019)

• Functional Sentencing Forum (June 4, Troy, Michigan)
• Homeless Court Community Forum (June 3, Flint, Michigan)
  
• Homeless Youth Legal Network Roundtable (June 3, Detroit, Michigan)
  

Equal Justice Conference (May 9-11, Louisville, Kentucky)

Montgomery County, Maryland, Community Forum: Alternatives to the Criminalization of Homelessness (April 26, 2019, Rockville, Maryland)

WEBINAR: Removing Barriers for Youth Experiencing Homelessness

National Summit on Youth Homelessness (March 18-19, 2019)

WEBINAR: UN General Comment 21 on Children in Street Situations, February 28, 2019

WEBINAR: Educating Students Experiencing Homelessness, February 13, 2019

Homeless Youth Learning Exchange: Improving Outcomes by Removing Legal Barriers in Southern Nevada, January 25, 2019

2018 Events

Homeless Court Summit, November 13, 2018 (San Diego, CA)

• Agenda
• Afternoon Facilitation Prompts
• Participant List; Speaker and Facilitator Bios
• Judicial Council of California Fact Sheet
  
• University of San Diego School of Law Children's Advocacy Institute One-Pager

FYSB National Runaway & Homeless Youth Grantees Training, November 1, 2018

How to Identify & Remove Legal Barriers: Practical Strategies for Providers, National Network for Youth, March, 2018

Preventing Homelessness for System-Involved Youth

Providing Wrap-Around Services to Homeless Families

How to Identify and Remove Legal Barriers: Practical Strategies for Providers 2018 National Network for Youth

2017 Events

Class-Crits Annual Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana (November)

2017 National Coalition for Homeless Veterans Conference: Yes, In My Backyard

• Program Materials
  • Powerpoints: How to Find Legal Assistance and Build Effective Partnerships; Assisting Veterans with Child Support; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Briefing; Embedding Lawyers in Veteran Service Provider Organizations: Medical Legal Partnerships
  • Homeless Courts: Legal Services at Stand Down: Courts and Legal Services; San Diego Toolkit; Taking the Court to Stand Down; Taking the Court to the Streets
  • Experience Magazine: Returning Home . . . to Homelessness: San Diego’s Homeless Court Program Models Ways to Help; Serving Those Who Served: Meeting Veterans’ Unmet Legal Needs

International Summit on the Legal Needs of Street Youth (São Paulo, Brazil)

• Overview of the ABA Summit
• Angela Vigil speaking about the ABA Summit
• Three youth experts and Cathy Krebs speaking about the ABA Summit
• Agenda (English); Agenda (Español); 
  Agenda (Português)
• Cover Page; 
  Acknowledgments: Donors and Supporters
• Letter from ABA President Hilarie Bass
• Biographies of Experts
• Working Session Group Assignments
• Group B1 Topics:
  • 1. Birth registration and identity
  • 2. NGO and lawyer collaborative advocacy
  • 3. Violence and social cleansing (Tradução em português dos Princípios)
  • 4. Health, drug and substance abuse
  • 5. Standard of living and structural poverty
• Group A2 Topics:
  • 1. Education
  • 2. Comprehensive child welfare system
    
  • 3. Access to information and privacy
  • 4. Criminal justice system
• Group B2 Topics:
  • 1. Non-discrimination based on social origin, property, birth/ other status (Traducción al español de los principios)
  • 2. Non-discrimination of LGBT youth
  • 3. Children with disabilities (including disabilities from trauma)
  • 4. De-stigmatize homelessness/changing the story
• Group A3 Topics:
  • 1. Right to peaceful assembly
    (Tradução em português dos Princípios)
    
  • 2. Right to be heard and to expression (Traducción al español de los principios)
  • 3. Structural discrimination
  • 4. Right to family (re-connection to family)
• Group B3 Topics:
  • 1. Trafficking (sex and labor)
  • 2. Prevention from entering the street
  • 3. Employment
  • 4. Children and youth participation in the implementation of the comment
  • 5. Access to justice
• Group A4 Topics:
  • 1. Child rights approach as opposed to child protection
    (Tradução em português dos Princípios)
  • 2. Systems that discharge children and youth to homelessness
  • 3. Gender, and factors underlying girls’ development of street connections
  • 4. Police (police sweeps; specialized training for the police)
•  

2016 Events

ABA Annual Meeting (August, San Francisco)

• Friday, August 5: Anti-Poverty Community Roundtable: A Conversation with Local Experts on the Bay Area’s Innovative Roadmap to Cut Poverty 
  • Welcome Letter from Chairman; Agenda; Member Liasion Bios; Anti Poverty Initiative; Statement of Services; KoKo Challenge Info Sheet; Campaign Slide Deck; Rise Together Presentation; Comprehensive Opportunity: Bay Area; PUMA Bay Area Self Sufficiency Statistics; Rise Together Roadmap; UWBA SSS County Fact Sheet
    

• Friday, August 5: When School Is Your Home: Why Educating A Million Homeless Students Is A Civil Rights Battle (Presented by The American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness & Poverty and Coordinating Committee on the Legal Needs of Homeless Youth)
  • Education Department Releases Guidance on Homeless Children and Youth; Supporting the Success of Homeless Children and Youths; Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America's Public Schools; Gradnation: Hidden in Plain Sight; Hope Flow Chart
    

Military Veterans Legal Services Network Summit (June 23-24, Washington, D.C.) ARTICLE

Collaborate to Advocate: Lawyers and Communities Working to End Poverty:

• February 5, San Diego, CA; 
• April 14, 2016, Birmingham, AL;
•  April 15, 2016, Selma, AL; 
• April 16, 2016, Montgomery, AL

Homeless Court Program: Taking the Court to the Streets (February 19, Seattle, Washington)

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans Legal Track

• NCHV 2016 Engaging Attorneys, Developing Programs to Best Utilize Local Legal Resources and Expertise, and How to Help if you Can’t Find a Lawyer 
• NCHV2016 Family Law and Child Support: Legal Services, Advocacy, and How to Prepare Your Clients for Court When They Don’t Have an Attorney  
• NCHV 2016 Innovative Partnerships to Embed Lawyers: Identifying and Addressing Legal Needs
• Financial coaching map and roster

2015 Events

Free Teleconference: Promoting the Human Right to Food: Utilizing International Law Concepts and American Bar Association Policy to Support State and Local Advocacy Efforts (November 18)

NLADA Annual Conference  Teamwork Matters: A Holistic Approach to Provide Legal Services to People who are Homeless New Orleans, LA, November 5, 2015

ABA Annual Meeting, July, Chicago, Illinois

• Combatting the Criminalization of Homelessness: Legal Talk Network 
• Collaborate to Advocate: Lawyers and Communities Working to End Poverty (Chicago Quilt Patch)
  
• Combating the Criminalization of Homelessness: The Role of Young Lawyers
  
  • No Safe Place: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities, Nat’l Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (2014)
  • No Safe Place: Advocacy Manual, Nat’l Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (2014)
  • Human Rights to Human Reality: A 10 Step Guide to Strategic Human Rights Advocacy, Nat’l Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (2014)

International Summit on the Legal Needs of Street Youth
(June 16-17, London, UK)

• ABA: Getting Homeless Youth Off the World's Streets
  
  
• Former Child Slave Turned Activist who Spoke at the Summit Honored by Queen Elizabeth for her work
• Remarks
  • United Nations Special Rapporteurs Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and Leilani Farha to speak at the Summit in London -- UN Experts Remind States that Street Children have Rights too
  • Bernard Gastaud of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to speak at the Summit in London -- Committee on the Rights of the Child Considers Reports of Lao People’s Democratic Republic on Sale of Children, Children in Armed Conflict
    
• Preliminary Report; Update (April 2016)
• Video: Highlights from the Summit; Videos: Voices of Street Youth
• Reports on Ten Countries; Resources by Region
• Agenda
  • Introduction, Background Materials and Expert Biographies; List of Participants
  • Sessions: Framing the Issue; Plenary Opening Session; View from the Street; Issue 1: Human Needs; Issue 2: Child Welfare; Issue 3: Cross Border Issues; Issue 4: Education and Employment; Issue 5: Criminalization; Youth Presentation; Next Steps
• Access to Justice for Children: Challenging Violations of Children's Rights
  
• The Summit thanks the following sponsors:
  • Defender: The Anchor Fund of the Rose Community Foundation
  • Advocate: Casey Family Programs
  • Protector: Anonymous; Champions for Children Foundation
  • Expert: The Abdoulah Family Fund--A Donor-Advised Fund of the Denver Foundation; Jack Hogan Charitable Trust; Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice
  • Delegate: ABA Section of International Law; Josephine McNeil; Annette Nellen
  • In-Kind: Baker McKenzie, Swiss
    

Collaborate to Advocate: Lawyers and Communities Working to End Poverty:

• February 6, Houston, TX; 
• April 20, Deland, FL;
• October 2, Miami, FL

ABA Mid-Year Meeting, February, Houston, Texas: Eliminating Debt and Combatting Poverty: How to Effectively Address Consumer and Tax Debt, Child Support Arrearages and Court-Imposed Legal Financial Obligations (Materials) (Debtors Prisons) (February 6)

2014 Events

Veterans Child Support Initiative Summit (Nov. 20-21) AGENDA

• Program Materials
  • Addressing Child Support Needs of Homeless Veterans: HHS-VA-ABA Collaboration
  • Advocating for Homeless Veterans
  • Child Support 101: A Training Resource to Assist Service Providers in Understanding the Basics of the Child Support Program
  • Child Support Participation in Stand Down Events
  • Ending Homelessness Among Veterans: the OCSE-VA-ABA Collaboration Project
  • Group Discussion--Measuring Outcomes
  • Identifying Veterans with Child Support Issues
  • MACV Vetlaw Intake Form; MACV Veterans Legal Clinic Manual
  • Providing Expedited Review and Modification Assistance
  • The Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans' Vetlaw Program
  • Veterans in the Child Support Caseload
  • Where's a Lawyer When You Need One?
• Additional Resources for Homeless Veterans
  • View our Veterans Justice Initiative page
  • Navigating the VA Disability Claims Process
    
  • Returning Home . . . to Homelessness: San Diego’s Homeless Court Program Models Ways to Help
  • Serving Those Who Served: Meeting Veterans’ Unmet Legal Needs

Fighting Hunger in Maryland: From the Ground Up Fourth Annual Conference

• The Right to Food: Harnessing a Human Rights Framework in Local and State Advocacy Efforts
  Presented by the Maryland Food Access and Nutrition Network, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 29, 2014
  • Featuring information on the American Bar Association’s resolution on the human right to food and guidance on implementing the human rights framework to enhance local and statewide policy advocacy efforts.
    View Program Materials from the Session

2014 Annual Meeting, August, Washington, D.C.

• Friday, August 8 (1:00pm-3:30pm): Inequality for All: A Free Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion on ways Lawyers, Law Students, and the Organized Bar can Address Poverty
  A part of the Public Interest Law Track
• Friday, August 8 (4:00pm-6:00pm): Lawyers Working to End Youth Homelessness: Forum for Lawyers and Community Agencies
  
  

The War on Poverty: Is Every Lawyer a Soldier, or Are We Tilting at Windmills? July 28, 2014 • Washington, DC

• "ABA entities host stakeholders to examine US poverty, solutions"
• Watch the program video!
• Add your voice to the conversation! (Closed Survey)

Homeless Court at Stand Down: A Collaborative Effort to Assist Homeless Veterans, Strengthen Communities and Maximize Court Resources July 18-20, 2014 • San Diego, CA

Webinar: Social Security Retirement Strategies: Helping Your Clients Maximize Benefits June 18, 2014 

6th Annual Veterans' Legal Assistance Conference and Training: An Opportunity to Serve Those Who Served Our Country
June 6, 2014, Baltimore, MD

2014 National Coalition for Homeless Veterans Annual Conference: Bridging the Gap: May 28-30, 2014, Washington, DC

• Addressing Legal Needs Through SSVF 
  
• Child Support Initiatives and Connecting to Local Legal Clinics
• Helping Homeless Veterans Comply with Child Support Obligations: Removing Legal Barriers to Employment, Housing and Self-Sufficiency
• Homeless Court: San Diego Toolkit
• Homeless Court: Taking the Court to Stand Down
• Homeless Court: Taking the Court to the Streets
• Homeless Veterans Justice Initiative
• Navigating the VA Disability Claims Process
• Returning Home . . . to Homelessness: San Diego’s Homeless Court Program Models Ways to Help
• Serving Those Who Served: Meeting Veterans’ Unmet Legal Needs

American Psychological Association-ABA National Conference (May 1-3, Washington, D.C.)

On Confronting Family and Community Violence:  The Role of Safe and Stable Housing in Preventing Exposure to Violence for Unaccompanied Youth

Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness: The Role of Courts, Lawyers and Advocates (Video)

CLE: Friday, April 25, 2014,  San Francisco, CA--In partnership with the California Administrative Office of the Courts and Center for Court Innovation. [Video]

War on Poverty Film Program: Film Screening and Panel Discussion, Inequality for All (March 24, 2014, Georgetown Law Center) [Video]

ABA Midyear Meeting, February 5-11, Chicago, Illinois

• Friday, February 7: Poverty and Government Intervention in Families Due to Alleged Child Abuse and Neglect What’s the Connection and What Should the Law Say About It?
• Friday, February 7: Meeting the Educational Needs of Highly Mobile Students: The Education Rights of Homeless Children and Youth and Those in the Child Welfare System
  [Video]
  • Meeting the Educational Needs of Children and Youth who are Homeless or in Foster Care PowerPoint Presentation
  • Federal Guidance on McKinney-Vento
  • Statute
  • Illinois State Policy
• Friday, February 7:  Screening and Talkback of the Documentary A Place at the Table
• Careers and Pro Bono Opportunities in Child and Youth Advocacy
• Thursday, February 6: [Podcast]
• Thursday, February 6: The ABA-LSC Veterans' Claims Assistance Network (VCAN)
• Thursday, February 6: ABE: Effectively Representing Wounded and Disabled Veterans in VA Benefits Matters

2014 Courts Summit (Agenda • Video) 

• General Materials
  • NAEH Chronic Homelessness in the US; NAEH Snapshot of Homelessness (background and statistics)
  • “Returning Home . . . to Homelessness: San Diego’s Homeless Court Program Models Ways to Help”
    
• It Takes a BIG Village: The Success behind the VA’s Homeless Veterans Outreach Initiative
  [Video]
  • ABA Veterans Claims Assistance Network
    
  • CA Penal Code Section 1170.9 – Decision Map; CA Veterans Courts Resources
  • Justice for Vets
    
  • Serving our Veterans Legal Needs through Collaboration: The Role of Law Schools, Lawyers and the Bar in Meeting the Pressing Legal Needs of Veterans (PPT, Suzanne Will) 
    
  • Statesidelegal.org
    
  • VA Resources for Homeless Veterans; VA Veterans Justice Outreach
• The Complexity of Persistent Street Homelessness: A Discussion of Local Efforts [Video]
  • USICH:3 Reasons to Address Homelessness as a Human Rights Issue; Creating Meaningful Alternatives to Criminalization in Our Communities; Criminalizing Homelessness is Costly, Ineffective, and Infringes on Human Rights; Effective Community-Based Solutions to Encampments; USICH Report
  • NLCHP: 2011 NLCHP Report on Criminalization; Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading (report to UN Human Rights Committee on Criminalization); Access to Injustice Fact Sheet
    ; Tent Cities Report; Advocacy Manual; Criminalizing Crisis
    
  • Jennifer Friedenbach: A Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign; Criminalization Fact Sheet; Fact Sheet on Homelessness
    
    
  • CA Homeless Bill of Rights Draft Legislation
    
  • UN Human Rights Committee Report on US compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 
  • Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
    
  • Elaine deColigny: Homeless Count 2013 Findings (EveryOne Home, Alameda County); Key Findings and Policy Implications from the 2013 Alameda Countywide Homeless Count and Survey Report
• Courts as a Tool for Engagement? Lessons Learned from Justice Centers, Community Courts and Specialty Dockets [Video]
  • CA Collaborative Justice Courts
    
  • Concept Paper/Protocols for Ventura's Community Intervention Court (Julius Lang)
    
  • Midtown Community Court: Documented Results (Courtney Bryan)
    
  • Allyson West: San Francisco Collaborative Courts Community Justice Center 2008 Demographics; San Francisco Collaborative Courts Community Justice Center Case Volume March 2013 - February 2014; San Francisco Collaborative Courts Community Justice Center Fact Sheet; San Francisco Collaborative Courts Community Justice Center Map and Eligibility
• Deepening Court Involvement:  How the Power of Homeless Courts and Treatment Courts Can Address the Root Causes of Homelessness among Individuals, Families and Youth [Video]
  • CA Penal Code Section 1170.9 – Decision Map; CA Specialty Juvenile Courts Resources; CA Veterans Courts Resources
  • Justice for Vets
    
  • National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP)
• Preventing Homelessness: The Role of Parolee Engagement and Reentry Courts [Video]
  • CA Reentry Courts Resources
    
  • Chris Watler: Evidence-Based Strategies for Working with Offenders; Reentry Court Tool Kit; Reentry Courts: Looking Ahead 
  • U.S. Federal Interagency Reentry Council Releases Resources For Communities (USICH)
•  Case Study: John
  

2013 Events

ABA Annual Meeting, August 8-13, San Francisco, California (Details)

• Thursday, August 8:  What is the Criminal Justice System's Role in Ending Homelessness? 
  [Video]
  • Hypothetical Case Study: Virginia
  • ABA Policy: Decriminalization of Homelessness; Homeless Court; Veteran Treatment Court
  • AOC Literature Review: Mental Health Courts – An Overview
  • AOC California Mental Health Courts Evaluation
  • AOC California Mental Health Issues Implementation Task Force Fact Sheet
  • AOC California Mental Health Task Force Report
  • San Francisco Collaborative Courts Behavioral Health Court
  • San Francisco Collaborative Courts Statistics
  • All San Francisco Collaborative Courts Programs
  • Veteran Homelessness
• Friday, August 9:  Legislative Update & Roundtable Discussion on Housing Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking [Video]
  • ABA Policy 106B
  • Facts on Homelessness, Housing, & Violence Against Women
  • There's No Place Like Home: State Laws that Protect Housing Rights for Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Assessing Claims of Housing Discrimination against Victims of Domestic Violence under the Fair Housing Act and the Violence Against Women Act
  • Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013: Housing Protections
• Friday, August 9:  Understanding Medicaid's Role in Ending Homelessness: Utilization of Regulatory Waivers to State Medicaid Plans to Expand Supportive Housing [Video]
  • Chambers Settlement Agreement
  • Clearinghouse Review Article
  • Ending Homelessness and the Role of Medicaid: Opportunities to Reform Medicaid Coverage to Expand Supportive Housing
  • Government Publications and Technical Assistance Resource List
  • Home and Community-Based Services: Introduction to Olmstead Lawsuits and Olmstead Plans
  • Medicaid-Financed Services in Supportive Housing for High-Need Homeless Beneficiaries: The Business Case
  • The Medicaid Program – Legal Primer
  • The Olmstead Decision Factsheet
  • Request for Proposals for Scattered-Site Housing and Rental Subsidy Administration for Adults Leaving Long-Term Care and Adults who are At-Risk of Long-Term Care Placement
  • Statement of the Department of Housing and Urban Development on the Role of Housing in Accomplishing the Goals of Olmstead
  • Statement of the Department of Justice on Enforcement of the Integration Mandate of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Olmstead v. L.C.
  • Still Waiting - The Unfulfilled Promise of Olmstead: A Call to Action by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • Training, Policy Paper and Fact Sheets on Disability-Based Discrimination and Supportive Housing for People with Mental Health Disabilities
  • Understanding Medicaid's Role in Creating Housing and Ending Homelessness, Peggy Bailey Presentation
  • Understanding Medicaid's Role in Creating Housing and Ending Homelessness, Rich Hooks Wayman Presentation

ABA Midyear Meeting, February 6-12, Dallas, Texas

• Friday, February 8:  Lawyering for Child Victims of Human Trafficking
• Friday, February 8:  Safe Harbor Laws for Victims of Sex Trafficking & Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Enactment of Housing Supportive Services as a Necessary Component
  • Addressing the Needs of Sexually Trafficked/Exploited Teens: Safe Harbor Legislation and the Runaway Intervention Project Powerpoint Presentation by Kate Richtman
  • Early Intervention to Avoid Sex Trading and Trafficking of Minnesota's Female Youth: A Benefit-Cost Analysis
    
  • Homeless Youth and Sexual Exploitation: Research Findings and Practice Implications
    
  • H.R. 2730
    
  • Issue Brief: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth Homelessness
    
  • Legislation and Policy Brief - Finding Safe Harbor: Protection, Prosecution, and State Strategies to Address Prostituted Minors
    
  • No Wrong Door: A Comprehensive Approach to Safe Harbor Laws for Minnesota's Sexually Exploited Youth
    
  • Safe Harbor Laws: Policy in the Best Interest of Victims of Trafficking Powerpoint Presentation by Richard Hooks Wayman
  • Safe Harbor Laws Portions of State Statutes: Model Public Policy
    
  • Shelter Beds for Human Trafficking Survivors in the United States
    
  • State Law Grid: Finding Safe Harbor
    
  • Uniform Law Commission: Memorandum from the Committee on Scope and Program
    
  • Uniform Law Commission: Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking Draft Legislation Links
  • Uniform Law Commission - Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking: Draft Legislation - October 2012
  • Yale Law and Policy Review - Consent, Coercion, and Compassion: Emerging Legal Responses to the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors
• Friday, February 8:  Serving Those Who Served: A Roundtable Discussion on Meeting the Legal Needs of Veterans [Video]
  • Principles for Veterans Treatment Courts
  • Principles for Homeless Courts
• Thursday, February 7:  Human Rights Lawyering: Establishing a Human Right to Housing in the U.S. [Video]
  • Heidi Wegleitner - Local Resolutions, Ongoing Challenges and Public and Private Intiatives
  • Resolutions from Dane County
  • Maria Foscarinis - Right to Housing Powerpoint Presentation
  • Maria Foscarinis - Links to referenced materials
  • Housing as a Right Fact Sheet
  • Karen Stevens - Resources and Reports

2012 Events

ABA Annual Meeting, August 2-7, Chicago, Illinois

• Meeting the Educational Needs of Highly Mobile Students: The Education Rights of Homeless Children and Youth and those in the Child Welfare System [Podcast]
• What Every Lawyer Must Know to Better Serve those Who Have Served:  Representing Veterans, Active-Duty Military Personnel and their Families [Podcast]

Homeless Court at Stand Down, July 13-15, San Diego, CA

ABA Midyear Meeting, February 1-7, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Preventing Foreclosure: A Win-Win Solution for Everyone
  • Video: Part One; Part Two
  • Program Materials
    
  • The Cost of Justice: Ensuring Access to Justice When There's No Money
• Access to Justice: What is the professional obligation of lawyers to keep the courthouse open? (February 3) (View Video)
  
  • Moderator: Craig Baab, Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice
  • Panelists:
    • Martha Bergmark, President and CEO, Mississippi Center for Justice
    • Hon. Sue Bell Cobb, Former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
    • Mark Moreau, Co-Executive Director, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
      
    • Hon. Jay Zainey, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana

2011 Events

ABA Annual Meeting, August 4-6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Runaway and Homeless Youth and the Law
• Program Materials (Using the Law to Protect, Not Punish, At-Risk and Homeless Youth)
• Collaborative Justice Makes Cent$: Cost-Effective Interdiscipliary Courts in Canada and the U.S.
• Program Materials (Canada’s Gladue Courts)
  

ABA Midyear Meeting, February 9-14, Atlanta, Georgia

• What is Worth Billions of Dollars, but is Worthless? Heir Property in America, and the Loss of African-American Land

2009 Events

Preventing Foreclosure: A Win-Win Solution for Everyone July 31, 2009, Chicago, Illinois

Homeless Court Training, July 17, 2009, San Diego, California

• Honorable Dennis Archer, ABA President (2003-2004); Mayor of Detroit, MI, 1994-2001 (Click here to view brochure.)