PLEASE REGISTER FOR
Children's Legal Services 2008 Conference
June 11-12, 2008
Orlando, Florida
Registration for the CLS Grantee Conference has closed.
Attached to this email is an on-line registration.
You must register by May 27, 2008, for us to be able to reserve the hotel rooms.
You will have the opportunity to:
1. Meet with each other to network and learn about what each of us is working
on.
2. Develop better communication amongst ourselvers so we can help each other and
work together.
3. Learn about and meet with the four statewide CLS projects.
4. Learn (and receive 3-4 hours CLE credit) skills you can use in your
children’s advocacy and in the four statewide projects. By the end of the four
CLE sessions, you will be able to:
￢ Administrative Rule Challenges: Identify potential grounds to challenge a rule
as an invalid exercise of delegated authority; and understand the procedural
steps to challenge proposed rules, existing rules, and unpromulgated rules.
￢ Policy Advocacy: Identify a systemic problem affecting children when presented
with a brief fact pattern; offer non-litigation solutions; and learn five
important tips when working with policy makers.
￢ Legislative Advocacy: Describe timing and importance of key events in the
legislative year; understand the importance of working with clients to influence
local legislative delegations; and identify steps in researching and drafting
legislation and in seeking bill sponsors.
￢ Data Collection and Analysis: Describe how to obtain information through
Florida and federal public records; list at least 3 sources of information on
the internet; identify the type of information/data that would be useful to
obtain to address a systemic problem presented in a brief fact pattern; and
offer potential ways information can be analyzed, used and presented to advocate
for systemic change
The conference will begin on Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at 11:00 a.m., and end on
Thursday, June 12, 2008, at 3:30 p.m. This should allow for travel on these
days. We also are planning a group dinner event for Wednesday evening, so make
plans to include this. Your program will be billed for lodging at $109 per
night.
The conference will be located at:
Sheraton Orlando Downtown
60 S. Ivanhoe Blvd
Orlando, FL 32819
We hope to see you there!
Design Team
Barbara Briggs
Alice K. Nelson
Bernie Perlmutter
Jodi Siegel
Anne Swerlick
Kele Williams
Agenda for 2008 Children’s Legal Services Conference
June 11, 2008
11:00-11:30am
Introductions, Scope of Conference
11:30-12:30
Discussion of Four Statewide CLS Projects
School to Jail - Barbara Briggs
EPSDT - Anne Swerlick
Interagency Agreements - Kele Williams
DD Services - Andrea Moore
12:30-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Discussion of Community Outreach and Parent Education: Issues and Successful
Strategies
Barbara Glass
Each CLE is designed to provide skills that relate to advoacting within the Four
Statewide CLS Projects
2:00-3:30
CLE: Data Collection and Analysis (Kele Williams and Sheila Meehan)
Content to include: Introduction to Public Records law (Org charts and/or
examples of how to find the right persons to ask for records; Litigation to
enforce, when necessary); Federal information, incl. FOIA requests; Searching
internet, newspaper and professional journals for information; Data analysis;
using data to further advocacy goals
3:30-3:45
Break
3:45-5:15
CLE: Legislative Advocacy (Andrea Moore and Arthur Rosenberg)
Content to include: Legislative time-lines; Getting to know your own delegation;
Identifying and forming coalitions (local and state-wide); Cultivating and
supporting good sponsors; Defining the impact of existing situation; defining
the objective; Initial drafting; Researching consequences; Researching related
statutes and drafting additional language to resolve any conflicts; Finding
clients and telling compelling stories
6:00-8:00
Dinner With Keynote Speaker TBA
June 12, 2008
8:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-10:30
CLE: Administrative Rule Challenges (Jodi Siegel and Cindy Huddleston)
Content to include: Administrative Procedures Act; Advocacy in rule
promulgation; How to challenge a rule; Case Study of Rule Challenge against APD
rule limiting med waiver services
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-12:15
CLE: Policy Advocacy (Robin Rosenberg and Dick Batchelor)
Content to include: Identifying systemic issues in individual cases; Defining
the problem; Identifying solutions; Working with policy implementers to
ascertain areas of agreement and divergence; Work with agency to obtain
resolution - spin off remaining pieces to other advocacy.
12:15-1:15
Lunch
1:15-2:15
Break-outs into Four Statewide CLS Projects
2:15-3:30
Discussion of CLS grantees’ training needs and project needs
Wrap-up/Next steps