The Practising Law Institute is offering a webcast of a live presentation from San Francisco entitled The Intersection of Race, Systems Involvement, and Children With Disabilities: Creating a More Equitable Education System 2024 on September 11, 2024 from 12:00 PM-8:00 PM Eastern.

Registration: $199.00

Full scholarships and discounts to attend PLI programs are widely available to attorneys working in nonprofit/legal services organizations; pro bono attorneys; government attorneys; judges and judicial law clerks; law professors and law students; senior attorneys (age 65 and over); law librarians and paralegals who work for nonprofit/legal services organizations; unemployed attorneys; and others with financial hardships.

All eligible attendees are urged to complete and submit a PLI Scholarship Application.
https://www.pli.edu/probono/pbscholarship

Attend this program to receive the information you need to represent the education needs of children of color, children with disabilities, and children in the foster care and juvenile criminal system from a racial/ethnic, socio-economic, disability and systems involved equity focused lens.

What You Will Learn

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Analyze how the US legal, historical, institutional, and economic systems, combined with residential segregation, have produced disparities in our current education system.
• Identify how implicit bias impacts us as advocates, and our education system and educators, leading to disproportionately negative education outcomes.
• Utilize knowledge on how trauma, including racialized trauma, impacts brain development, learning, and behavior, to better advocate for youth’s education needs.
• Analyze data to see how children of color, children with disabilities, and children impacted by the child welfare/foster care and juvenile legal systems are disproportionately over- and under-represented in our child welfare, juvenile legal, school discipline, and special education systems.
• Utilize anti-racist advocacy techniques to effectively represent children in our education system.

Who Should Attend

Any attorney or advocate currently working with children and youth in an education setting, and anyone interested in providing pro bono assistance to children of color, children with disabilities, and/or children in the family regulation or juvenile criminal system, from a racial justice and equity focused framework, would benefit from attending.