| Fourth Annual Juvenile Justice Conference
Reapplying Behavioral Science to Juvenile Advocacy
Sponsored with the Juvenile Justice Center, Youth Advocacy Project, and the New England Regional Juvenile Defenders
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Friday, May 03, 2002
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Faculty
Schedule/Agenda
Registration Information
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This program will utilize a series of plenary sessions to teach juvenile defense attorneys, advocates, judges, probation officers and prosecutors how to understand and relate to adolescents. The interactive workshops teach participants how to effectively use this information to better serve juvenile clients and treat them more appropriately.
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Deborah Yurgelun-Todd
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Brain Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont |
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Karen Hacker
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Executive Director, Institute for Community Health, Cambridge |
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Tony DeMarco
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Director, Juvenile Justice Center, Suffolk University Law School |
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Honorable Stephen M. Limon
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Suffolk County Juvenile Court, Boston, MA |
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Anna Bulkin, MSW
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Youth Advocacy Project, Roxbury |
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Gloria Tan
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Youth Advocacy Project, Roxbury |
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Elizabeth Rice Smith
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Daniel P. Browne, Ph.D. & Associates, Newton |
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Kenneth J. King
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KENNETH J. KING is a clinical supervisor and practitioner in residence at Suffolk University Law School’s Juvenile Justice Center. Mr. King is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and Northeastern University Law School. From 1980 to 1982, Ken was an Assistant Regional Counsel for the Department of Social Services (DSS) representing the Commonwealth in child welfare cases in the Juvenile and Probate Courts in Bristol County. In 1982, Ken left DSS and formed a private practice where he conducted many child-related cases until 1995 when he became the Attorney-in-Charge of the Salem Massachusetts Office of the Children and Family Law Program (CAFL), a division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS.) He left CPCS in December 1998 to join the Juvenile Justice Center at Suffolk University Law School. In May 2000 Ken was honored with the CPCS Blitzman Award for extraordinary commitment to protection of the rights of juveniles. From January through May 2004 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Turku Faculty of Law in Turku, Finland. While in Finland, King taught US Constitutional Criminal Procedure and US Criminal Trial Practice, while also lecturing on US juvenile law and procedure and researching the Finnish juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Ken’s research in Finland has resulted in one article to date, “Child Welfare in Finland: Are Families Sacrificed on the Altar of Administrative Procedure”, which was published in Defensor Legis (Sep 2004), the journal of the Finnish Bar Association. Throughout King’s practice he has concentrated on the representation of children and parents in the juvenile court as well as criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels. King has developed an expertise in issues relating to the legality of searches in schools and the interrogation of juveniles. Commonwealth v. Damian D., 434 Mass. 725 (2001) and Commonwealth v. Alfonso A., 438 Mass. 373 (2003)— two cases that Ken and his students have litigated in the Juvenile Justice Center clinic—resulted in decisions from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that provide greater protection for juveniles in school and the interrogation room respectively. King has also authored An Overview of the Law of Searches by School Administrators which has been published in American Bar Association and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education training bulletins. He has also prepared outlines on the law of juvenile Miranda waivers and defending probation violations in juvenile court which have been used extensively for the training of students and lawyers. |
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Joshua M. Dohan
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Director, Youth Advocacy Project, Roxbury |
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Thomas Grisso
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University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester |
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Carmen Lopez
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Connecticut Superior Court, Bridgeport |
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David Medoff, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor & Director, Mental Health Counseling Program
Suffolk University |
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Danette J. Wilson-Lawrence
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Juvenile Justice Center, Suffolk University Law School |
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Barbara Taylor Kaban
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Deputy Director, Children's Law Center of Massachusetts, Lynn |
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Ann E. Tobey
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Youth Advocacy Project, CPCS, Roxbury |
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Professor Wendy J. Kaplan
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Criminal Defense Clinic, Boston University Law School, Boston, MA |
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~ Plenary Speakers ~
Thomas Grisso, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where his research, teaching and clinical practice focus on forensic mental health evaluation and services. He has authored and edited several books on evaluations for courts on juvenile forensic issues. His publications include Evaluating Competencies (1986), Juveniles' Waiver of Rights (1981), Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations (1988), Understanding Aggressive Behavior in Children (edited with C. Ferris, 1996), Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment (with Paul Applebaum, 1998) and Forensic Evaluation of Juveniles (1998).
Dr. Karen Hacker is an Internist with a subspecialty in Adolescent Medicine and a wealth of experience in public health. She received her undergraduate education at Yale University and her medical education at Northwestern University. She is the former Director of Adolescent Services for the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals. She spent over twelve years working with young people as both a clinician and administrator, and worked at the Boston Public Health Commission as the Division Director for Child and Adolescent Health. She recently joined the Cambridge Health Alliance as the Executive Director of the Institute for Community Health. Dr. Hacker has an MPH from Boston University.
Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D. is the Director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology Laboratories at the McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Yurgelun-Todd is an innovative leader in applying neurophysiological and cognitive changes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders and substance abuse. Her research focus is on identifying the neuropsychological and neurobiological bases of risk factors for major psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In recent work, she has examined the etiologic bases of neural models of dysfunction in psychiatric disorders by applying functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques to study cortical changes during normal development in healthy children and adolescents.
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| 9:00 |
Welcome & Introduction |
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Plenary Session I |
| Adolescent Brain Development
- Evolving science of brain chemistry/neurobiology
- How adolescent brains differ from adult brains and why this is important
- Why physical changes in adolescent brains may account for turbulent teen years?
- Cognitive development
- Gender differences (how emotion is processed and aggression)
Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D.
Adolescent Development
- Adolescent norms and development tasks
- Hormonal and physical changes
- How can an attorney recognize a problem (evidence of dysfunction) with a client?
- Resiliency
- Empathy
- Conflict resolution
- Culpability
- Structure
- Adolescent's impulse control and ability to foresee consequences
- Impact of abuse and neglect on development
Karen Hacker, M.D.
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Concurrent Workshops - Part I |
Dispositional Advocacy
Learn strategies for effective dispositional representation, including ancillary representation for educational services and programming in the community to include drug services, trackers, family/social service support, counseling and/or vocational training. If the client has been committed to DYS, representation includes advocacy at Staffing and the Classification Panel, and ensuring that your clients' rehabilitative needs are met by DYS Services. If your client is placed on probation, advocacy should include ensuring adequate support of services to allow your client to successfully complete probation.
Tony DeMarco, Esq., Moderator
Honorable Stephen Limon
Anna Bulkin, MSW
Gloria Tan, Esq.
The Effects of Trauma
Recognizing the Impact of Abuse and Neglect
- Understand how trauma (abuse/neglect) impacts development
- Learn how to recognize the effects of trauma in a child's actions
- What treatment models/programs are appropriate?
Elizabeth Rice Smith, Ph.D.
Kenneth J. King, Esq.
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| 12:45 |
Lunch - On Your Own |
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| 2:00 |
Plenary Session II |
Recognizing What Your "Competent" Clients Understand About Juvenile Court Proceedings
Report of recent research and discussion of implications for daily practice
Joshua M. Dohan, Esq., Moderator
Thomas Grisso, Ph.D.
Barbara Kaban, Esq.
Ann E. Tobey, Ph.D.
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Concurrent Workshops - Part II |
Interviewing/Communicating with the Child Client
Identify techniques for successfully interviewing adolescents in the court system Learn the limitations on cognitive capacities, present-oriented thinking, perceptions of authority figures and the impact on the interview dynamic Discuss how to factor these considerations into your demeanor, approach and language use.
Wendy Kaplan, Esq., Moderator
Honorable Carmen Lopez
David Medoff, Ph.D.
Danette J. Wilson-Lawrence, LICSW
Evaluating Youth Competence in the Juvenile Justice System
- Understand the competencies that young people must have to perform different tasks in the juvenile court process
- Appreciate the skills needed by an expert to conduct a competency evaluation
- Know the elements of a good competency evaluation
- Learn to use evaluation findings at different stages of the juvenile court process.
Joshua M. Dohan, Esq., Moderator
Thomas Grisso, Ph.D.
Barbara Kaban, Esq.
Ann E. Tobey, Ph.D.
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| Date: |
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Friday, May 03, 2002 |
| Tuition: |
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Tuition is $65. Course books are included in the tuition charge. Costs for this course are underwritten by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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| Walk-Ins: |
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Space is limited. Registrations at the door are welcome, but please register in advance to reserve a seat and your written course materials or call to confirm space availability.
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| Refunds: |
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Any cancellations received 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15.00 charge. If you cannot attend, you can send a substitute, otherwise you will receive the written course materials.
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| Location: |
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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| Credit: |
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Approved for CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT, ME & NY. This course has been approved for 7 CAFL and 7 CPCS Mental Health Litigation credits.
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If you have special needs addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, please notify us as soon as possible.
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