HDLC Workshops

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Community Voices
Leadership
Family Defense
DEI/REI
Social Work and Mitigation Workshops (CEU available*)

Community Voices 

• Reimagining and Redefining Public Safety: The Black Community’s Perspective 
• Video court proceedings: Perspectives from the impacted community 
• The Charles Hamilton Houston Model; Abolishing Black Codes, 13th Amendment, and Mass Incarceration 
• The Impact of Lived Experience on Defense Teams 
• No Struggle No Success: Baltimore Reentry Program 
• Gender Justice

Leadership

• Reimagining and Redefining Public Safety: The Black Community’s Perspective.  
• Supporting, Hiring, and Promoting Black Defenders: A Path to Inclusive Justice 
• Culturally Responsive Leadership 
• Rural Communities to Urban Centers: Developments in Holistic Defense 
• Defender Program Reform - Pitfalls and Lessons Learned 
• Dismantling the Master’s House: Committing to a Culture of Antiracism in the Workplace 
• One Size Does Not Fit All: A Critique of Holistic Defense 
• Building Out Holistic Family Defense in Baltimore City  
• Collaborative Leadership for Racial Equity: Lessons Learned from a Cross-Stakeholder Antiracism Training Program 
• Navigating Whiteness in Relationships 
• My First 3 Years as a Black Chief: What I Wish I Would Have Known  

Family Defense

• One Size Does Not Fit All: A Critique of Holistic Defense 
• Building Out Holistic Family Defense in Baliimore City  
• The Impact of Lived Experience on Defense Teams 

DEI/REI

• Intersectionality of Holistic Defense & DEIB Principles in Criminal Defense Practices 
• Why a Black Man's Impact Matters in Your Case: Examining the Role of Representation in the Courtroom 
• Culturally Responsive Leadership 
• The Necessity of Black Youth Defenders: Protecting Our Communities and Our Future 
• Dismantling the Master’s House: Committing to a Culture of Antiracism in the Workplace 
• Navigating Whiteness in Relationships 

Social Work and Mitigation Workshops (CEU available*) 

• Nueropsychology 101* 
• Clients Returning to the Community* 
• Vicarious Healing: Wellness for Defense-based Advocates* 
• Non-Capital Mitigation Workshop 
• Black Women Speak: Is it Secondary Trauma or Just Trauma? Our Professional Experience with STS and the Need to Support Wellness for BIPOC Advocates 
• Showing up with Compassion and Advancing Racial Equity Through Trauma-Responsive Social Work Collaborations in Community-Oriented Defense  

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