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Fulfilling the Promise of
Juvenile Justice
SHAPING THE FUTURE BEGINS NOW
hosted by: the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families,
with generous support from the Governor's Juvenile Justice Commission
and the Office of Justice Assistance
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Tuesday, March 30 & Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club
Madison, Wisconsin
Final Registration Deadline is Noon, March 24, 2010
Fulfilling the Promise of Juvenile Justice is a multidisciplinary two-day conference focused on shaping the future of juvenile justice. Join local and national experts in both large-group discussions and small workshops as they explore what we have learned about where juvenile justice has been and what can work for the future to create a system that we want for our youth and our communities. This conference is intended for all professionals who work with juveniles, including social workers, juvenile court workers, attorneys, psychologists, teachers, court and corrections personnel, judges and anyone else who wants to work for positive change in the system.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
FOR THIS CONFERENCE
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attendee(s), click here
CONFERENCE BROCHURE
(pdf, 5862 kb)
Exhibitor Information
(Registration is closed)
Featuring Plenary Speakers:
Seize the Little Moment: Upending Segregated Youth Justice
BERNARDINE DOHRN
Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School
Immediate Past Director, Children and Family Justice Center
 Bernardine Dohrn is Associate Clinical Professor at Northwestern University School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic and was the founding director of the Children and Family Justice Center. The CFJC is a holistic children’s law center and a national policy center for the comprehensive needs of adolescents and their families, providing critical analysis of youth law and the legal administration of justice, educating the public, and preparing professionals who advocate for children. She is the author/co-editor of A Century of Juvenile Justice (2002); author/co-editor of Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment (2001); co-author of Race Course: Against White Supremacy (2009); author of Look Out Kid, It’s Something You Did: The Criminalization of Youth in Valerie Polakow, Ed., The Public Assault on American’s Children (2002); All Ellas: Girls Locked Up in Feminist Studies (2004); Something’s Happening here: Children and Human Rights Jurisprudence in Two International Courts, UNLV Law Journal (2006); and I’ll Try Anything Once: Using International Human Rights Norms in the US for Children in Conflict with the Law, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2007). She teaches women/children and human rights, torture, and children in conflict with the law, and is also a visiting professor teaching Human Rights at the University of Chicago, Leiden University and Utrecht University Law Facilities in the Netherlands. She is vice chair of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division, a member of the steering committee of the Midwest Human Rights Coalition, and on the board of the Burns Institute, San Francisco.
Shaping the Future in Partnership with Crime Victims and Survivors
ANNE SEYMOUR
Co-founder, Justice Solutions
Senior Advisor, Pew Public Safety Performance Project
 Anne Seymour is a Co-founder and Senior Advisor of the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Justice Solutions, specializing in criminal and juvenile justice, crime victims' rights and services, and community safety. Anne has been a national and international advocate for crime victims' rights. She has developed and implemented training and technical assistance programs to strengthen victims' rights and services in law enforcement, prosecution, the judiciary, juvenile justice, and community and institutional corrections. Her current work includes public policy development, training and technical assistance, program evaluation, strategic planning, and research in victim assistance, corrections-based victim services, family violence, the news media's coverage of crime, juvenile justice, and restorative justice, as well as developing new technologies to improve criminal justice and victim services.
She has authored or contributed to over 30 manuals and texts published by the Office for Victims of Crime since 1989, including “The Victim Role in Offender Reentry” and “Creating a Victim Focus: A Guide to Working with Victims During Offender Reentry” books. She has appeared in virtually every news medium -- including all network morning shows and evening newscasts, Nightline, Larry King Live, Crossfire, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Frontline -- as an expert on crime victims' rights.
Building a Bridge between What We Do and Why We
Should Do It: Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) and What Works
MARK CAREY, President, The Carey Group
 Mark Carey is the President of The Carey Group (TCG), a national consulting firm that provides training and technical assistance for justice and correctional professional and community groups. He has served as the Deputy Commissioner of Community and Juvenile Services in the Minnesota Department of Corrections from 1999 to 2003, the Director of Dakota County Community Corrections, the Director of Dodge-Fillmore-Olmsted County Community Corrections and as the warden of MCF-Shakopee, the only state women’s prison in Minnesota. He has over twenty years of experience in the correctional field serving as a counselor, probation/parole officer, planner, administrator, and consultant. He taught juvenile justice at the Community College in Rochester, Minnesota, and has published over a dozen articles and two books.
Mark previously served as President of the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA.) He has served as President and Chair for a number of Associations and Task Forces, and frequently is requested as a speaker and trainer. He has been on the APPA Board of Directors since 1997. In 1996 he received APPA’s Sam Houston University Award. In 1993, he was selected as the Corrections Person of the Year by the Minnesota Corrections Association.
A Question of Freedom: A Personal Story of Choice and Redemption
REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS
Program Director, D.C. Creative Writing Workshop
 Reginald Dwayne Betts was born in a city in San Diego he no longer remembers. Dwayne was raised in Suitland, MD, a small city in the DC Metropolitan area. On December 8, 1996 Dwayne went from being an average boy in the neighborhood, carrying hoop dreams and college ambitions in his head, to another young black male behind bars. In thirty seconds he became a statistic and his memoir, A Question of Freedom,is a coming-of-age story with the unique twist that it takes place in prison. Utterly alone—and with the growing realization that he really is not going home any time soon—Dwayne confronts profound questions about violence, freedom, crime, race, and
the justice system.
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts—a good student from a lower-middle-class family—carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. A bright young kid, he served his nine-year sentence as part of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the state. Above all, A Question of Freedom is about a quest for identity—one that guarantees Dwayne's survival in a hostile environment that incorporates an understanding of how his own past led to the moment of his crime.
Plus Break-Out Sessions, including:
- Deinstitutionalizing Youth: A Key to Juvenile Justice Reform
- Collaborative Team Practice in Juvenile Justice: What Works
- Practicing Evidence-Based Principles
- Juvenile Life Without Parole (LWOP): What does the Future Hold?
- Alcohol, Drugs, and the Teenage Brain
- The Federal Vision for the Future of Juvenile Justice: Funding and Laws Update
- Lessons in Leadership for Effective Juvenile Justice System Change
- What You Need to Know in Working with Victims of Juvenile Crime
- Implementing Model for Change to Reduce DMC
- The State of Risk and Needs Assessments in Juvenile Justice
- Functional Behavioral Assessments for Struggling Students
- Successful Strategies for Truancy Prevention & Re-Engaging Students on the Edge
- The Legacy Costs of Lead Poisoning: Reducing Delinquency by Preventing Lead Poisoning
- Jackie Millar’s Story: A Story of Choices, Forgiveness, and Love
- The Future of 17 Year-Olds in Juvenile Court
- Keys to Supporting Successful Youth Employment
COST
Conference registration options for this two-day conference are:
Registration (payment must be received by Noon, March 24)
$140 for both days or $90 for one day
Cancellation refund requests will be accepted only until Noon, March 24.
SCHEDULE
Conference begins @ approximately 8:30 a.m. each day and ends @ 3:45 p.m.
See complete conference brochure for more details.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
11.0 Continuing Legal Credits approved.
Continuing Education Unit certificates will be available at the conference.
REGISTER ONLINE
CONFERENCE BROCHURE
(pdf, 5862 kb)
Exhibitor Information and Registration
To pay online for previously registered
attendee(s), click here
LODGING
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club, 1 W. Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin, is holding a limited block of rooms for conference attendees for March 29 & 30 at the state rate.
Hotel reservations must be made by March 11, 2010 to receive the special rate and you will need to mention that you are attending WCCF’s conference, Fulfilling the Promise of Juvenile Justice.
Call The Madison Concourse Hotel directly at 1-800-356-8293 to make your reservation.
QUESTIONS?
For more information about Fulfilling the Promise of Juvenile Justice,
please contact Wenona Wolf by telephone: (608) 284-0580, ext. 304 or via email at wwolf@wccf.org or Jim Moeser ext. 316 or jmoeser@wccf.org.
Fulfilling the Promise of Juvenile Justice
WI Council on Children and Families
555 W. Washington Ave, Suite 200
Madison, WI 53703 |
