Parent Attorney Foundations Training
This training series equips attorneys with a knowledge and skill base for representing parents in child welfare proceedings. It includes topics an overview of child welfare rules and statutes, ICWA basics, understanding trauma and implementing trauma-responsive principles, mental health and substance use issues, understanding court ordered assessments, and ethical considerations for parent attorneys.
Cost: $70, plus associated fees
CLE Credit: Approved for 7 standard on-demand CLE credits from the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education
REGISTERChild Welfare Appellate Practice Series
This training series is a group of eight, on-demand training videos designed to prepare attorneys to file child protection appeals, understand MN rules, statutes, and caselaw, draft effective arguments, gain insight into the perspective of the Bench, and implement a trauma-informed approach to working with their clients. ITCP recognizes the gap in legal representation for families in appellate child welfare proceedings. This training aims to support those already practicing in this area and to increase the number of attorneys able to take on these cases.
Contributing presenters include:
- Justice Anne McKeig of the Minnesota Supreme Court
- Senior Judge John Rodenberg of the Minnesota Court of Appeals
- Judge Reilly of the Minnesota Court of Appeals
- Judge Theodora Gaïtas of the Minnesota Court of Appeals
- Professor Vivek S. Sankaran, Director of Child Advocacy Law Clinic at Child Welfare Appellate Clinic, University of Michigan School of Law
- Brooke Beskau Warg, Appellate and Policy Attorney at Hennepin County Adult Representation Services
- Assistant Professor Natalie Netzel, Co-Director of Clinical Education at Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Cost: $85, plus associated fees
CLE Credit: Approved for 7 standard on-demand CLE credits from the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education
REGISTERRepresenting Kin in Child Protection Proceedings
This training series is a resource for attorneys who wish to represent relatives and kin in child welfare proceedings. There are very few attorneys in Minnesota who do this work and the ITCP seeks to develop attorneys who can contribute to this critical access to justice.
Too often relatives who could provide safe and stable homes to system-involved children they love struggle to navigate the complexities of the legal system and / or are prematurely disregarded and dismissed from placement consideration. Trauma-informed legal counsel who represent kin can help keep children connected to their families and communities.
The videos in this series are a foundational guide to representing relatives at all stages of child welfare proceedings before filing of a CHIPS petition through post-permanency. They include:
- Pre-Petition Legal Consideration
- CHIPS Overview
- Pre-Permanency Representation
- Representing Kin on Appeal
- Post-Permanency Court Advocacy
- Keeping Families Together through Kinship Support
- Resilient Practice
- Trauma-Informed Lawyering
Cost: $65, plus associated fees
CLE Credit: Approved for 4.5 standard and 1.25 ethics CLE credits from the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education
REGISTERPlease note the following:
- All presentations will be housed on Mitchell Hamline’s Canvas training webpage and are available to all MN attorneys who wish to engage in parent and kinship representation. Attorneys can watch the presentations on their own schedule and refer to them as needed.
- After registering, you will receive an email with the link to the training webpage where all videos are housed. Tthis may take up to two business days.