The Children’s Commission will host a webinar on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. entitled “Utilizing Day Care to Support Children and Families.”

The webinar will explore how daycare services can support biological, kinship, and foster families and encourage child safety in various stages of a child welfare case, including prevention efforts. The webinar will address policies and procedures as it relates to day care and funding; the role and duties of the DFPS day care coordinators; and practice tips for judges and lawyers. The speakers are Carol Morin, DFPS Day Care Program Director and Jennifer Cochran-Green, DFPS Managing Attorney for Regions 4 and 7.

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

A recording of the March 28, 2025, live webinar entitled “Non-Party Participation in Child Welfare Mediations,” and PowerPoint presentation are now available on the Children’s Commission’s On-Demand Training and MCLE webpage.

Attorney Mediators Mark Briggs of Briggs & Associates, P.C. and Electra Watson of the Watson Law Firm discussed considerations for including non-parties in child welfare mediations, including ethical issues that mediators and attorneys must be aware of and ensuring that agreements that include non-party participants are enforceable.

The State Bar of Texas has approved this webinar for 1 hour of MCLE and .25 hours of ethics. This course has also been approved by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization for 1 hour of certification and recertification continuing legal education requirements for attorneys and paralegals in the specialty fields of Child Welfare and Family Law.

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