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SUMMARY:Bergstrom Fellowship Panel
DESCRIPTION:Calling all law students! NACC is hosting a virtual panel on the Bergstrom Fellowship. If you are interested in child welfare law or legal issues surrounding the foster care system\, come hear from Clinical Professor of Law Vivek Sankaran and two former fellows to learn if this program is a good fit for you. Free\, but please sign up ahead of time. \nPresenters: \nVivek Sankaran\, Clinical Professor\, University of Michigan Law School \nLiza Garrity\, former fellow \nBrionna Crawford\, former fellow \nSign up for this panel via Zoom.
URL:https://naccchildlaw.org/event/bergstrom-fellowship-panel/
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SUMMARY:Race Equity Virtual Training Series 2025
DESCRIPTION:NACC envisions a future where every child\, parent\, and family has equitable access to justice and culturally responsive legal representation. Through this series\, NACC seeks to advance children’s and parents’ rights\, support a diverse community of child welfare lawyers\, and advocate for equitable\, anti-racist solutions designed by people with lived experience. This series aims to: \n\n\nBridge progressive ideas around race and racism with practical skills and strategies for daily practice\, both in and outside of the courtroom.\n\n\n\nProvide actionable tips to identify and interrupt individual\, attorney\, judicial\, and systemic bias; practice through a culturally humble\, anti-racist lens; and improve outcomes for youth\, parents\, and families disproportionately affected by systemic involvement.\n\n\n\nPromote transparent\, solution-focused dialogue around race and racism in child welfare.\n\n\n\nModel authentic inclusion of experts with lived experience in race equity training and discussions.\n\nAll registration and participation lists will be kept confidential. \nApply for a Scholarship for the Race Equity Virtual Training Series.  \n\nAgenda\nThis training series will be six 1.5-hour sessions over three days. (View PDF agenda and presenter biographies.) \nWednesday\, February 26\n10:00 – 11:30am MT \nSkin DEEP: The History of Child Welfare by Race \nPresenters: \n\nShanelle Dupree\, JD – Racial Equity Collaborative\, Inc.\nAbby Fry – Racial Equity Collaborative\, Inc.\n\nThe Skin DEEP webinar is for leaders who care deeply about families. You spend your career trying to help families thrive. But you are dissatisfied and see missed connection opportunities\, a lack of trust with the clients you serve.  You also sense a general discomfort when discussing diversity within your organization. It also doesn’t help that states are passing confusing laws that make it feel like DEI is illegal. The Skin DEEP curriculum focuses on building cultural connection through shared history. This webinar challenges how we think about race and uses examples in history to connect to the current day work with families centering humanity and equity. Skin DEEP builds a foundation for people to develop “eyes to see” & “ears to hear” whether race equity is absent or present within organizations. \n1:00 – 2:30pm MT \nThe Bearer Remembers: Moral Injury in Child Welfare Professionals \nPresenters:  \n\nNesta Johnson\, JD (she/her) – National Center for Lesbian Rights\nShomari Ward\, JD (he/him) – Youth Represent\nBla Yang\, MSW (she/her) – Prairie Island Indian Community\n\nMoral injury is a form of trauma that arises when people must act in ways which violate their conscience or threaten their core values\, causing psychic distress\, dissonance\, and conflict. Similar to the trajectory of post-traumatic stress\, moral injury was first observed in military service members exposed to combat settings and has since been observed in many professions and contexts. In this interactive session\, panelists and attendees will explore moral injury in the “child welfare” context and how morally injurious experiences impact minority employee well-being and retention\, with a special focus on professionals of color and professionals with disabilities. Participants will leave equipped with strategies for preventing\, recognizing\, addressing\, and healing from moral injury. \n  \nThursday\, February 27\n10:00 – 11:30am MT \nSupporting Immigrant Youth & Families Engaged by the Child Welfare System \nPresenter: \n\nTiffany Haynes\, BS – Aiden Anthony LLC\n\nThis session explores practical tools and strategies for supporting immigrant youth and families involved in child welfare. Presenters will address implicit biases\, systemic barriers\, and the unique cultural and legal challenges these families face. By centering voices with lived experience\, this presentation will provide actionable insights and resources to help legal advocates\, judges\, and multidisciplinary professionals bridge cultural gaps\, enhance equitable representation\, and work toward anti-racist solutions that uplift immigrant communities. \n1:00 – 2:30pm MT \nBlack Girl Magic: Empowering Dual Status Youth in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems \nPresenters: \n\nSherri Simmons-Horton\, MSW\, PhD\, AA – University of New Hampshire\, Department of Social Work\nKaren Kolivoski\, MSW\, PhD – Georgetown University – Center for Juvenile Justice Reform\n\nBlack dual status girls—those involved in both child welfare and juvenile justice systems—face unique challenges\, including compounded racial and gender discrimination. Many overcome these adversities\, using their voices to challenge stereotypes. This study presents a conceptual framework that integrates Critical Race Theory and Black feminism to highlight protective factors and point to systemic adversities. Interviews with 6 Black women\, currently ages 18–36\, reveal 3 key themes: 1) structural and gendered challenges; 2) resilience through resistance and critical awareness; and 3) empowerment\, celebrating their strength and voices. Amplifying their voices is essential for shaping policy reform\, improving support services\, and developing practical strategies to better address their needs. \nFriday\, February 28\n10:00 – 11:30am MT \nRace Intelligence™ (RQ)-A Coaching Framework for Brave Conversations about Race \nPresenters: \n\nJess Sucherman\, JD – Colorado Court Improvement Program\nTara Doxtater – Office of Respondent Parents’ Counsel and Hornbuckle Foundation\nMichelle Davis\, LPC – Kempe Center\, University of Colorado Anschutz\n\nCoaching has become a transformative tool for personal and professional growth. It works by revealing\, challenging\, and disrupting mindsets that don’t align with who we want to be. RQ-Race Intelligence Coaching™ is an innovative program that delves deeply into our social conditioning around our relationship with race\, helping individuals become more aware\, and enabling conscious choice to disrupt these patterns. This session will introduce RQ-Race Intelligence™ coaching\, a program designed to guide compassionate\, challenging\, and disruptive conversations that restore us and our relationships within a racialized world and demonstrate how the Colorado Court Improvement Program is using this program to move these conversations forward and challenge racism in child welfare. 1:00 – 2:30pm MT \nDismantling the Master’s House: Resisting with Bravery to Build Anti-Racist Culture \nPresenters: \n\nCorey Best – Mining for Gold\nSarah Katz\, JD – Temple University Beasley School of Law\n\nAudre Lorde famously wrote “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” But what are the master’s tools in the child welfare system? Is it possible to engage in antiracist advocacy within a structurally racist system? How do we resist enacting and perpetrating racism and build anti-racist culture? No matter our beliefs or experience\, white supremacist ideology is always the background condition\, embedded in each of us\, just as it is embedded in the function and practice of the child welfare system. In solidarity\, Corey Best\, a Black father with an advantaged analysis of the harms of the child welfare system\, and Sarah Katz\, a white lawyer\, experienced in representing parents in and around the system\, will excavate and engage participants in answering these questions. \n  \nCLE Information \nGENERAL NOTES \n\nThis series has been accredited for CLE in California and Colorado. Keep track of which sessions you attended live and which sessions you viewed on-demand throughout the series. Complete one attendance form for all your live sessions and another for all your on-demand sessions after the series ends. Don’t sign in after each individual session – sign in once after you finish all live sessions (if any) and once after you finish all on-demand sessions (if any). Certificates of attendance will be available in the Course Materials folder after the series ends. Attorneys in the jurisdictions below must sign in for CLE after completion of the live course and/or on-demand viewing as applicable. Most states have a sponsor CLE reporting deadline of 30 days from course conclusion\, so sign in as soon as you complete the course. We may not be able to report your credits if you sign in too near or beyond that deadline.\n\nCalifornia (60-Minute Hour) \n\nThis participatory activity has been accredited by the State Bar of California for a maximum of 9 hours of Elimination of Bias credit for live and on-demand participation.\n\nColorado (50-Minute Hour) \n\nThis course is accredited by the Colorado Board of Continuing Legal and Judicial Education for a maximum of 10.8 units of Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion credit for live and on-demand participation. Colorado is a self-report state.\n\nAll Other Jurisdictions \n\nAttorneys in all other jurisdictions must seek CLE accreditation individually if desired. Attendees are welcome to fill out the attendance form for personal recordkeeping – you will receive a copy of your attendance form via email after submission – but NACC will not report CLE credits on your behalf and you will need to independently seek accreditation.\n\nCLE Questions? Email CLE@NACCchildlaw.org
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