2018 COD Network Conference has ended

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2018 COD Network Conference

7:30am PDT

Registration Liberty Ballroom Foyer

8:30am PDT

Opening Plenary - Advancing Reform: Morning Chat with Safety & Justice Challenge Leaders on Pre-Trial Reform Liberty Ballroom DKeir Bradford-Grey • Curtis Jones Jr. • Larry Krasner • Marsha H. Neifield • Julie Wertheimer

10:00am PDT

Break TBA

10:15am PDT

COD Network Member Updates Liberty Ballroom DApril • Raj Jayadev

11:45am PDT

Lunch on Your Own TBA

1:15pm PDT

Defender Federal Funding Opportunities Freedom EEmily Flanagan Starting a Community Outreach Project Freedom GElizabeth Justesen Contact with the Indigent Appellate Client: Overcoming the Justified Presumption of Mistrust Freedom HTimothy P. Murphy Next Step Program: Steps to Meeting Clients' Needs Pretrial Freedom FDan Lew Strategies for Measuring and Assessing Services: Ideas for Conducting In-House Assessments and for Partnering with Local Researchers Salon 5/6Elyshia Aseltine

2:15pm PDT

Break TBA

2:30pm PDT

How to Leverage Funding & Unlikely Partnerships to Enhance Holistic Services Salon 5/6Sarah G. Johnson • Ashley Pennington Partnering with Community Organizers to Effect Change Freedom FNikki Trautman Baszynski • Amber Evans Closing Records, Opening Doors: Expanding Record Clearance Freedom EEmma Goodman • Serena Holthe Second Hand Trauma and Self-Sustaining Strategies for Justice Professionals Freedom HLori James-Townes • Leslie Faith Jones • Nyne Sellers Learning How to Leverage Data and Research to Improve Defender Programs Freedom GMarea Beeman • Michael Mrozinski

3:45pm PDT

Break TBA

4:00pm PDT

Financial Empowerment to Advance Outcomes through Holistic Public Defense for Returning Citizens and Justice-Involved Persons Freedom HMary Griffin • Chiquisha (“Keisha”) Robinson Student Expulsion Prevention Project: Reducing Racial Disparities in School Pushout Freedom FMatthew Giesfeldt • Richard Jones • Diane Rondini Impact of Social Work Services in Public Defense Freedom ESarah Buchanan Beyond the Stigma: Cultural Elements That Impede African Americans from Seeking Mental Health Treatment Freedom GTeresa Cooper

5:15pm PDT

Networking Reception Horizons Rooftop Ballroom

7:30pm PDT

Supporting Advocates Working with Clients in Crisis Tir na nOg Irish Bar & GrillCaitlin Becker • Justine Olderman • Maya Prabhu Implicit Bias Acadia RestaurantApril • Tina Luongo Indefinite Detention and Immigrants Black Sheep Pub & RestaurantYung-Mi Lee • Ellen Pachnanda The Black Lives Matter Movement: How It Has Shaped Our Advocacy in Court and Communities Acadia RestaurantFemi Disu-Oakley

7:30am PDT

Registration Liberty Ballroom Foyer

8:30am PDT

Morning Plenary - The Client Perspective: Lessons Learned from Clients Returning Home from Incarceration Liberty Ballroom DKenneth Days • Colleen Higgins

9:30am PDT

Break TBA

9:45am PDT

Defending Communities in Service: Defender Program Capacity-Building Through a New NLADA-AmeriCorps VISTA Project Freedom FEmily Flanagan • Anna Ladd • Kameryn Sessoms One Vision, Many Styles: The Maryland Office of the Public Defender Community Engagement Journey Freedom GShannice Anderson • Mary-Denise Davis • Kirsten Gettys Downs • Sakinda Skinner Building Your Own Blended Practices System Salon 5/6Nicole Buck • Gilan Merwanji • Curtis Watkins Creative and Holistic Strategies for Defender Offices Keeping Up with Major Changes in Law Freedom HKellie Byward • Maggie Eisenberg Using Resource Lawyers and Social Workers for More Holistic Representation Freedom EWinston Peters • Isadora L. Romero • Teresa Eden Zabala

10:45am PDT

Break TBA

11:00am PDT

Beyond the Adversarial System: Achieving the Challenge for Pre-Trial Reform Freedom GDaniel Engelberg • Mark Houldin • Sean McNulty • Era Patterson • Ramon Quintana Empowering Indigent Communities to Do Justice Freedom EMary DeFusco A Specialization Model of Holistic Defense Freedom HLisa Schreibersdorf Juvenile Defense Beyond the Courtroom Freedom FClare Kruger • Brittany Mobley • Jamie Argento Rodriguez ICE in Courts: Representing Clients at Risk of Apprehension and Removal Salon 5/6Rosa Cohen-Cruz • Robyn Mar • Sarah Deri Oshiro

12:00pm PDT

Break TBA

12:15pm PDT

Closing Plenary - How to Advance Race and Diversity in Public Defender Offices Liberty Ballroom DShannon Cumberbatch • Femi Disu-Oakley • Patrice Fulcher