The Children’s Commission Fall 2025 Trial Skills Training Contested Hearing Practices Course (TST) application deadline is midnight on Friday, May 2, 2025. This will be the final opportunity for attorneys to apply for one of the 27 available spots for this interactive training.

The course includes two half-days of virtual instruction on the afternoons of September 4 and 10, 2025, and two-and-a-half days of in-person instruction on September 16-18, 2025, in Round Rock, TX.

TST is open to attorneys at all levels of experience who represent DFPS or receive court appointments to represent parents and children on a child welfare docket and who wish to improve their courtroom practice skills. For more information about the application criteria and to apply for the training, please visit the Trial Skills Training webpage.

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