News, Events, and Announcements

Upcoming Events

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March 30, 2012 – Advanced Trial Practice for Child Welfare Attorneys (space limited to contract attorney)

May 4, 2012 - Cultural Matters: Best Practices in Indian Child Welfare Cases (Registration form)

June 25 – 27, 2012 - NITA Training, Albuquerque, NM (Limited to current contract attorneys)

July 19-20, 2012 - Child Abuse and Neglect: Essential Information for Practicing and Presiding in Child Welfare Cases

The Annual Child Welfare Cross Training regional seminar dates are set, listed below are the dates and locations where the regional trainings will be held.  More information and registration form will be available soon.

August 9, 2012:  Education Cross Training – Roswell, NM
August 15, 2012:  Education Cross Training – Farmington, NM
August 17, 2012:  Education Cross Training – Las Cruces, NM
August 22, 2012:  Education Cross Training – Las Vegas, NM
August 24, 2012:  Education Cross Training – Albuquerque, NM

November 8-9, 2012 – Children and the Law (space limited to 25 State and Tribal Judges who preside in Children's Court Cases)

With generous funding from the J.F. Maddox Foundation, the Corinne Wolfe Children's Law Center (the Center) is partnering with the National Judicial College (NJC) and the New Mexico Judicial Education Center to offer a two-day "Children and the Law" course for 25 judges who preside in children's court cases in our state and tribal Courts.

According to Judge Don Maddox (Ret.), member of the Board of Directors of the Maddox Foundation, the Foundation is "proud to support this effort that will benefit not only New Mexico judges, but also the children and families they serve." The Maddox Foundation has previously supported the Center's training efforts, providing funding to the Center in 2000 to deliver training on effective child advocacy for CASA and CRB Volunteers.

The Center is very pleased about this collaboration and about the Maddox Foundation's generosity. Grant funding like this allows the Center to provide cost-effective, high quality judicial education programs specifically to children's court judges in-state, and to avoid the additional time and expense required to send judges to the NJC in Reno, Nevada. More importantly, this funding allows the Center and the NJC to tailor the course to meet the specific educational needs of New Mexico's judges.

This program is one of many examples of the Center's efforts to find creative and cost-effective ways to provide additional, meaningful judicial education programs for state children's court and tribal judges. In 2010, we partnered with the Center for Effective Public Policy to secure State Justice Institute funding to provide a day of training on the role of judges in managing juvenile sex offense cases. The Center looks forward to pursuing similar partnerships in the future.

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