Why You Should Attend
Attend this program to receive the information you need to represent the education needs of children of color, children with disabilities, and children in the foster care and juvenile criminal system from a racial/ethnic, socio-economic, disability and systems involved equity focused lens.

What You Will Learn
After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Analyze how the US legal, historical, institutional, and economic systems, combined with residential segregation, have produced disparities in our current education system.
• Identify how implicit bias impacts us as advocates, and our education system and educators, leading to disproportionately negative education outcomes.
• Utilize knowledge on how trauma, including racialized trauma, impacts brain development, learning, and behavior, to better advocate for youth’s education needs.
• Analyze data to see how children of color, children with disabilities, and children impacted by the child welfare/foster care and juvenile legal systems are disproportionately over- and under-represented in our child welfare, juvenile legal, school discipline, and special education systems.
• Utilize anti-racist advocacy techniques to effectively represent children in our education system.

Who Should Attend
Any attorney or advocate currently working with children and youth in an education setting, and anyone interested in providing pro bono assistance to children of color, children with disabilities, and/or children in the family regulation or juvenile criminal system, from a racial justice and equity focused framework, would benefit from attending.

PLI offers full scholarships, registration fee waivers, and discounts to attend PLI programs for attorneys, paralegals, law librarians, and staff working for nonprofit/legal services organizations; pro bono attorneys/volunteers (providing no-fee legal assistance to clients individually or through a nonprofit organization); government attorneys; judges and judicial law clerks; law professors and law students; retired attorneys; independent/freelance paralegals; unemployed attorneys; and others with financial hardships. Learn more here.