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Attorney conference calls are held monthly and provide up-to-date information on topics related to legal advocacy. These trainings are conducted by both Program staff and experts from outside the Florida Guardian ad Litem Program. Each hour long presentation has been approved for CLE credit. Below you will find audio files of these conference calls as well as practice aids and materials provided by the lecturer. If you are an attorney and would like to receive CLE credit for listening to the audio file below, please visit the Florida Bar website and submit the course number provided to receive CLE credit.
Conference Title: MASTER TRUSTS, Deborah A. Schroth, CLS Counsel for Independent Living, Master Trust and Education.
Conference Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
CLE Course Number: 90569
Conference Title: LEGAL ETHICS IN DEPENDENCY PRACTICE, David Silverstein, Office of the Attorney General, Children's Legal Services Hillsborough County Florida .
Conference Date: September 22, 2009
CLE Course Number: 81799
Conference Title: VIEW FROM THE BENCH, Judge Altenbernd, Second District Court of Appeals, and Judge Seals, Twentieth Circuit Court.
Conference Date: August 12, 2009
CLE Course Number: 67509
Conference Title: 2009 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, Deborah Lacombe, Deputy General Counsel, Legislative Affairs, Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office.
Conference Date: July 15, 2009
CLE Course Number: 19189
Conference Title: GUARDIANSHIP 101 FOR CHILD ADVOCATES, Shannon M. Miller, MILLER & BRASINGTON, P.L.
Conference Date: May 21, 2009
CLE Course Number: 50069
Conference Title: EDUCATION: THE FOSTERING CONNNECTIONS TO SUCCESS AND INCREASING ADOPTIONS ACT OF 2008, Kristin Kelly and Kathleen M. McNaught, Center on Children and the Law, American Bar Association
Conference Date: April 23, 2009
CLE Course Number: 45029 (Please enter the course date 4/30/2009 when applying for CLE credit)
Conference Title: INDEPENDENT LIVING, Bill Booth, Esq., Juvenile Advocacy Project, Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County
Conference Date: March 26, 2009
CLE Course Number: 22299
Conference Title: SEXUAL ABUSE ISSUES & THE KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE ACT, Karen Oehme, J. D., Institute Director, Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation & Sonia Crockett, J.D.
Conference Date: January 22, 2009
CLE Course Number: 11649
Conference Title: THE FOSTERING CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS ACT: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES FOR FLORIDA, Don Winstead, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Children & Families, presented by The Florida Bar Foundation Children's Legal Services Grantees and the Public Interest Law Section of the Florida Bar.
Conference Date: December 11, 2008
CLE Course Number: 96338
Note: If you have reached the Guardian ad Litem website through Citrix (Guardian ad Litem Employees), there will be no sound on the video. Please Copy (Highlight + Control + C) the address at the top of the page (Address Bar) and Paste (Click on New Address Bar + Control + V) into the address bar of another browser (i.e. Windows Internet Explorer or AOL) – not through the Citrix Applications Page. You will then be able to hear the training.
Conference Title: EARLY PERIODIC SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT (EPSDT) TRAINING PART II, Bernie Perlmutter, Director, The Children and Youth Law Clinic & Miriam Harmatz of Florida Legal Services
Conference Date: November 12, 2008
CLE Course Number: 67588
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Audio:
Audio Recording on November 12, 2008 Program Attorney Training
(2 minute download for Cable/DSL) |
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Documents & Links:
Order Appointing Attorney Ad Litem
Report by the Child's Attorney Ad Litem on the Department of Children & Families' Administration of Psychotropic Drugs to the Child and Incorporated Memorandum of Law
Americas Sickest Children, Deborah Shelton Pinkey, Youth Law News, 1994
An Update, J.AM. ACAD. CHILD ADOLESC. PSYCHIATRY, 36:4, APRIL 1997
Omnibus Order Relating to Medical Passports and Health History
Unmet Mental Health Needs Cause Failure Across Youth-Serving Institutions
Juvenile Court Health Care/EPSDT Advocacy (PowerPoint), Bernard Perlmutter, Associate Clinical Professor & Director University of Miami School of Law Children & Youth Law Clinic
EPSDT: What Does It Mean For Your Clients and How Can you Use It? (PowerPoint), Miriam Harmatz, Florida Legal Services
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Conference Title: REPRESENTING YOUTH, Andrea Khoury, American Bar Association and the Honorable Nushin Sayfie, 11th Judicial Circuit
Conference Date: October 13, 2008
CLE Course Number: 77078
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Audio:
Audio Recording on October 13, 2008 Program Attorney Training
(2 minute download for Cable/DSL) |
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Documents & Links:
Statutory References to Participation by Child - Chapter 39
Guardian ad Litem's Motion To Produce Children For Hearing
Order On Guardian ad Litem's Motion To Produce Children for Hearing
Order On Guardian ad Litem's Motion To Produce Children for Hearing (Transportation)
With Me, Not Without Me: How to Involve Children in Court, Andrea Khoury, Child Law Practice, November 2007
Seen and Heard: Involving Children in Dependency Court, Andrea Khoury, Child Law Practice, December 2006
Seen and Heard: Involving Children in Dependency Court (PowerPoint), Andrea Khoury, Honorable Nushin Sayfie, and Justin Taylor
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Conference Title: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON THE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN (ICPC), Steve Pennypacker Esq., Compact Administrator, Florida Department of Children and Families
Conference Date: September 19, 2008
CLE Course Number: 70508
Steve Pennypacker:
H. Stephen Pennypacker is a graduate of the University College of Law and Duke University. Mr. Pennypacker is currently the Compact Administrator for the Florida Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. Mr. Pennypacker was formerly a Managing Attorney with DCF and has served as a General Magistrate in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, handling dependency cases. He is also a guest lecturer at the UF College of Law at the Family Law and Family Law Trial Clinics.
Conference Title: EARLY PERIODIC SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT (EPSDT) TRAINING PART I, Anne L. Swerlick, Deputy Director Florida Legal Services, Inc. & Stephanie Johnson, Senior Attorney for the Team Child Program, Legal Services of North Florida, Inc
Conference Date: July 30, 2008
CLE Course Number: 61038
Anne L. Swerlick:
Anne is the Deputy Director of Florida Legal Services, Inc., a state support center for legal aid providers in Florida. She has worked over thirty years in the public interest arena specializing in health, disability, juvenile and elder care issues. Her practice includes legislative and administrative advocacy, as well as litigation in state and federal courts.
Ms. Swerlick has presented at multiple state and national meetings on health and disability issues and provided training and legal support to numerous attorneys, social workers, child advocates and other representatives of health and human services organizations.
Ms. Swerlick was formerly employed as Managing Attorney with the Advocacy Center for Persons With Disabilities, Inc. (1987- 1991) where she primarily represented children on special education matters. She started her legal career as an attorney with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid and provided representation to low income clients on a variety of civil legal issues.
Ms. Swerlick received her B.A. (French/Psychology) (1974) from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law (1977).
Stephanie A. Johnson
Stephanie graduated with honors from University of Florida, College of Law in 1993. She is a member of the Florida bar, Federal bar and Tallahassee Bar Association. She has worked at Legal Services of North Florida for last 15 years. Stephanie has served on several task forces and committees including: Parenting Liaison Committee, Predatory Lending Task Force, Consumer Workforce, Housing Workforce, and Independent Living Task Force. She is a trainer in landlord tenant law and children's legal issues. In addition since 2004 she has been an adjunct professor at FSU, College of Law. She has advocated on behalf of children in crisis for the last 7 years. She represents children as an attorney ad litem and senior attorney of the TeamChild program involving civil legal advocacy for children in the delinquency system.
Conference Title: DEPOSITIONS OF CHILDREN, Frances J. Feinberg, Senior Staff Attorney, GAL Program
Conference Date: February 13, 2008
CLE Course Number: 70727 no longer available for CLE credit
Frances J. Feinberg:
Fran has been involved with the Florida Guardian ad Litem Program for over 15 years --first as a Guardian ad Litem volunteer in Miami and then as a Senior Staff Attorney. She is responsible for the management and direction of the Criminal Court Project at Kristi House, in Miami, Florida. Her duties include supervision of criminal court cases to pro bono attorneys in the South Florida legal community; legal representation of children who are victim/witnesses in criminal court cases which may or may not have a dependency case component; and development of administrative orders used in criminal court which safeguard children's legal rights.
Conference Title: UNDERSTANDING THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA), Jennifer Staley, Esq., KidsVoice
Conference Date: January 15, 2008
CLE Course Number: 81237 no longer available for CLE credit
To receive credit all participants must e-mail creynolds@flabar.org with: 1) your name; 2) your bar number; 3) the name and number of the course and 4) the date you completed the course in order to receive credit.
Jennifer Staley:
Ms. Staley is a Team Supervisor at KidsVoice, an organization representing children in Pittsburgh, PA. Ms. Staley has spoken to community leaders and at various conferences about issues relating to children especially those issues that face children as they leave the foster care system. Ms. Staley is co-author of Helping Clients Transition to Independent Living. In addition to her membership in several children’s issues organizations, including the National Association of Counsel for Children and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Children’s Rights Committee, Ms. Staley is a member of the ACBA Juvenile Law Committee, where she serves as co-chair of the CLE Planning Subcommittee. Ms. Staley serves on the Duquesne University Law School Alumni Association Board of Governors. Ms. Staley serves on the Board of Directors of CORO. Ms. Staley also serves on the Associate Board of Gilda’s Club of Allegheny County.
- PROVING NEXUS, Thomas W. Young, Appellate Counsel, Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office
- MASTER TRUST TRAINING PART I & II, William Booth, Esq., Juvenile Advocacy Project; John Walsh, Esq., Foster Children's Project; Jim Walsh, Esq., Foster Children's Project
- LEGAL ETHICS IN DEPENDENCY PRACTICE, David Silverstein, Office of the Attorney General, Children's Legal Services Hillsborough County Florida
- TAKING AND DEFENDING DEPOSITIONS, Thomasina Moore, JD
- PATERNITY, Alicia Guerra, J.D., M.S.W., Senior Program Attorney, Florida Guardian ad Litem Program
- SEXUAL ABUSE ISSUES & THE KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE ACT, Karen Oehme, J. D., Program Director, Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation & Sonia Crockett, J.D.
- INDEPENDENT LIVING ISSUES, Deborah A. Schroth, Staff Attorney, Florida Legal Services, Inc.
- CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE WESTLAW RESEARCH, Martin Melang, JD, Westlaw Government Account Manager
- TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, Florida Guardian ad Litem Regional Training
- THE FLORIDA ATTORNEY DISCIPLINE SYSTEM, Kenneth L. Marvin Staff Counsel Director, Lawyer Regulation
- PROFESSIONALISM IN PREPARING FOR TRIAL, George E. "Buddy" Schulz Jr., Partner, Holland & Knight, Lawyer Regulation
- ADOPTION SUBSIDIES, ENHANCED SUBSIDIES AND MORE!, Helen Spohrer, Supervising Attorney, Florida Guardian ad Litem Program
- MEDICAID WAIVERS AND EARLY PERIODIC SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT (EPSDT), Professor Paolo Annino, Florida State University College of Law
- IMPLIED CONSENT FOR FAILURE TO APPEAR & PETITIONS FOR HABEAS CORPUS, Patricia M. Propheter, Appellate Counsel, Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Program
- SINGLE-PARENT TERMINATIONS & VOLUNTARY SURRENDERS, Patricia M. Propheter, Appellate Counsel, Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Program
- FLORIDA 2006 LEGISLATIVE CHANGES, Deborah Lacombe, Deputy General Counsel, Florida Guardian ad Litem Office
- PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS, Daniel P. Tressler, Psy.D.
- EVIDENCE ISSUES INVOLVING JUVENILES IN FLORIDA, Charles W. Ehrhardt, Ladd Professor of Evidence, Florida State University College of Law
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