NACC Virtual Training Series: High-Quality Legal Representation for Infants and Toddlers

November 2, 9, & 16, 2023

12-2pm MT/2-4pm ET

NACC invites all practitioners to join us for our inaugural virtual training series: High-Quality Legal Representation for Infants and Toddlers. Presented by NACC staff, and created in partnership with the ABA Center on Children and the Law, the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center, Zero to Three, and the Kempe Center, this first-of-its-kind training series focuses on the knowledge, skills, activities, and best practices needed to deliver high-quality representation to infants and toddlers.

The NACC Infants and Toddlers Training Series will be presented in three interactive webinars:

November 2, 2023, 12-2pm MT/2-4pm ET – Representing Infants and Toddlers: Knowledge

• This webinar will discuss the key areas of knowledge that attorneys need to provide high-quality legal representation to infants and toddlers. Attendees will learn about culturally humble representation, child development, trauma, attachment, and behavioral health and apply those concepts to the effective legal representation of their infant and toddler clients.

November 9, 2023, 12-2pm MT/2-4pm ET – Representing Infants and Toddlers: Skills

• This webinar will discuss the key skills that attorneys need to provide high-quality legal representation to infants and toddlers. The webinar will give a framework for the different models of representation and ethical obligations and challenges attorneys representing infants and toddlers may face. Attendees will learn practical skills, as applied to the representation of infants and toddlers, in the areas of independent investigation, client interviewing and counseling, safety assessment, collaborative skills, case planning, and written and oral advocacy.

November 16, 2023, 12-2pm MT/2-4pm ET – Representing Infants and Toddlers: Activities

• This webinar will apply the knowledge and skills learned in the first two webinars and incorporate that into the essential activities for providing high quality legal representation to infants and toddlers. Attendees will learn how to effectively advocate for reasonable efforts, kinship placement, and family time to further the needs and interests of their infant and toddler clients. The webinar will also address the importance of monitoring service provision, permanency and concurrent planning, using experts, and litigation.

This training series is $100 per person for members and groups, and $150 for nonmembers. Registrants will receive access to all three live webinars and their recordings (for six months) and all session materials. For group registration, please contact [email protected]. This course has been accredited by the Colorado Board of Continuing Legal and Judicial Education for a maximum of 7.2 units of general credit.