| 8TH ANNUAL JUVENILE JUSTICE CONFERENCE
Victims, Violence and the Juvenile Justice System: What to Do When Problems + Solutions = New Problems?
Sponsored with the Juvenile Justice Center, Center for Advanced Legal Studies and Suffolk University Law School
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Friday, November 10, 2006
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:15 PM
Schedule/Agenda
Registration Information
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Who Should Attend:
Anyone who works with kids, including juvenile defenders, child welfare advocates, probation officers, social workers and program staff.
This course has been approved for 6 CAFL and 6 CPCS MH Litigation Credits.
| S C H E D U L E / A G E N D A |
| 9:00 |
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS |
Kenneth J. King, Esq., Chair
Juvenile Justice Center, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA
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| 9:10 |
2004 BOSTON YOUTH SURVEY (BYS) |
| A joint project of the Boston Office of Human Services and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, the BYS provides an in-depth examination of the lives of youth attending public high schools in Boston. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the survey, but will focus on Part VI of the Survey – Violence, Victimization and Safety. Attend this session and gain insight into local youth’s perspective of violence, feelings of safety and the relationship between violence and depression/aggression, truancy and poor grades. Mary G. Vriniotis, M.S.
Research Specialist and Communications Liaison, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, Harvard School of Public Health
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| 9:45 |
YOUTH AND VIOLENCE-A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE |
Howard R. Spivak, M.D., Director
Professor of Pediatrics & Community Health, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
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| 11:00 |
A LOOK INSIDE A JUVENILE CORRECTION SYSTEM-PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS |
| This session will provide a candid view of how a poorly run juvenile correction system contributes to greater social problems. What do you do when the current solution (rehabilitative services) leads to more problems? Mr. Schiraldi will provide a unique perspective due to his current role as the Director of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) in Washington D.C. and his extensive experience working with troubled youth and juvenile justice systems. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Schiraldi founded the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), which conducts research on the impact of mass incarceration and the overrepresentation of people of color behind bars. The JPI grew out of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), an agency dedicated to reducing society’s reliance on imprisonment as a solution to social problems, which was also founded by Vincent Schiraldi. Attend this session and learn how detention facilities can perpetuate the cycle of violence. Learn how Mr. Schiraldi is changing DYRS by creating one of the nation’s best continuums of care that is strength based and community and family focused. Discuss how you can use this information when advocating on behalf of your clients.
Vincent N. Schiraldi, Director
Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, Washington, D.C.
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| 12:00 |
LUNCH (On your own) |
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| 1:00-2:30 |
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS |
Identifying Your Client’s Needs Attend and learn how lawyers can identify clients whose needs may interfere with their participation in their defense or their successful completion of a period of probation. The panel will discuss some simple interviewing techniques to identify clients with developmental delays, learning disabilities, or a trauma history along with other conditions that are frequently encountered in the Commonwealth’s delinquency courts. The panel will discuss records gathering, other sources of information and when an expert should be engaged to assess the client’s capacity and needs.
Kenneth J. King, Esq., Moderator
Juvenile Justice Center, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA Robert T. Kinscherff, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Commissioner for Forensic Mental Health, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Jeffrey Richards, Esq.
CPCS/Youth Advocacy Project, Roxbury, MA
What Happens to Your Client after Commitment to DYS? What Is Your Role as an Advocate for a Client Committed to DYS? Attend this workshop and learn what happens to youth after they are committed to DYS. Learn that your role does not end when the client is sentenced. Representatives from the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services will present an overview of the DYS classification and placement process, DYS "staffings", various levels of security and supervision, behavior management, treatment plans, education at DYS, the role of the DYS caseworker, revocations of Grants of Conditional Liberty into the community, and appeals. You will learn what services are provided to your client and what you can do for your client. Does your role as an advocate change from the courthouse to the DYS system? What if your client’s needs are not being met? What if you and the child's parents have a different view of what is best for the child? Is DYS different than the adult system, and in what important ways?
We will discuss strategies such as filing motions to revise and revoke a commitment, motions for new trial, etc. Participants in this workshop will learn how to effectively represent committed clients and receive tips for helping clients navigate the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services.
Wendy Wolf, Esq.
Juvenile Defense Network
CPCS/Youth Advocacy Project, Roxbury, MA
Crispin Birnbaum, General Counsel
Massachusetts Department of Youth Services
Craig Barger, Southeast Regional Director of Residential Services
Massachusetts Department of Youth Services
Edward J. Dolan, Deputy Commissioner
Massachusetts Department of Youth Services
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| 2:45-4:15 |
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS-PART II |
Sex, Lies, and the Juvenile Court This workshop will examine the ways in which actors in the juvenile delinquency systems misunderstand and criminalize youth sexuality; reinforce gender stereotypes; and ignore and/or disrespect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. The workshop will include a component in which participants brainstorm advocacy strategies for confronting these problems. The discussion will include the following issues: - Youth on the sex offender registry
- Consensual sexual activity among youth
- Gender stereotypes
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth
Barbara Fedders, Esq., Moderator
Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
David Medoff, Ph.D.
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Professor Laurie Schaffner
Visiting Faculty, American Bar Foundation
Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago
Alternatives to Confinement/Detention Attend and learn creative and useful strategies for successfully keeping clients out of DYS, both initially and long term. Participants will learn what different state agencies have to offer, resources for client evaluations and treatment such as court clinic evaluations and funds for social worker and mental health workers, etc., community resources, special education, and successful innovations that other communities and states have come up with to keep kids out of confinement and in their communities. This session will also highlight disproportional minority confinement and ways to introduce these issues into motion practice. Participants will also gain feedback regarding information that the Judge needs to know to consider alternatives.
Discussion Topics Include:
- Ideas concerning graduated probation sanctions
- Individual service plans for clients
- Model programs that work
Professor Wendy J. Kaplan, Moderator
Boston University School of Law
Honorable Leslie E. Harris
Associate Justice, Juvenile Court, Suffolk County
Nichelle Sadler, Boston Area Director
Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps, Inc., Boston, MA
William Sharp, Therapist/Consultant
Brookline, MA
Elizabeth R. Spinney, DMC Reduction Specialist
Executive Office of Public Safety, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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| Date: |
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Friday, November 10, 2006 |
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Tuition os $69.00 and includes the course book and continental breakfast; lunch is on your own.
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| Walk-Ins: |
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Registration at the door are welcome, but please call in advanced to confirm space availability.
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| Refunds: |
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Written requests for cancellations received via fax or email 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15 charge. If you cannot attend, you may send a substitute.
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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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This course will provide CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT & ME.
This course has been approved for 6 CAFL and 6 CPCS Mental Health Litigation Credits.
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Special
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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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