Improving Juvenile Defense in California and Hawaii

Pacific Juvenile
Defender Center

 

Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
1254 Market Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 863-3762 x 314
Fax (415) 863-7708


PJDC Trainings

The PJDC can train juvenile defenders and fellow trainers on particular issues, depending on time and availability. If you are interested in setting up a free training for juvenile defenders, please call (415)863-3762 ext. 314 or email: PJDCquestions@yahoo.com

Trainings for Defenders and Trainers

  • Special Education Advocacy (an overview of the law and how to use special education law in delinquency practice)

  • School Discipline (representing delinquency clients in related school expulsion hearings and reducing referrals from school to juvenile court)

  • Stabilizing home placements to keep delinquency clients out of institutional placements (an introduction to guardianships and referrals to the dependency system)

  • Dispositional Advocacy (reducing institutional placements)

  • Proposition 21 (an overview of the California law)

  • Cultural Competency