The Children’s Commission will host a webinar on Friday, November 22, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. entitled “Trial Skills for Child Welfare Cases: Preserving the Record for Appeal.”

During this webinar, Leslie Capace, Managing Attorney of the Appellate Section for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, and Mark Zuniga, Staff Attorney for the Texas Justice Training Center, will discuss how trial attorneys can preserve issues for appeal by securing rulings on the record, making offers of proof, and filing bills of exception.

MCLE credit is pending and TBLS credit will be requested. This presentation will be archived and materials will be available on the Children’s Commission website following the live webinar.

A recording of the September 20, 2024 live webinar entitled “Supporting School Aged Children in Care,” and accompanying presentation materials are now available on the Children’s Commission’s On-Demand Training and MCLE webpage. The panel explored the role of DFPS education specialists and how to best utilize them to ensure that the educational needs of child clients are met.

Panelists included the following DFPS Education Specialists:

• Felicia Penn, State Office, moderator;
• Jennifer Heimbach, Region 6B;
• Kathy Thurman, Region 4; and
• Keri Louviere, Region 5

The State Bar of Texas approved 1.0 hour of MCLE for the webinar, and the Texas Board of Legal Specialization approved 1.0 hour for certification in the specialty field of Child Welfare Law.

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