<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">Due to popular demand, join us for rebroadcasts of some of our most requested 2025 webinars! Both trainings will take place on the <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s9KbxGj7ThunghGfWVXLsg#/registration">same Zoom link</a> so you only need to register once. </p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong><strong>11:00 am-12:30 pm PT</strong></strong>/<strong>2:00-3:30 pm ET: Creating a “Child-Fair” Courtroom: Best Practices in Preparing and Presenting Child Witnesses <br /></strong><em>Eligible for 1.5 Hours of General CLE Credit in CA. <a href="mailto:Arcelia@ProsecutorsAlliance.org">Email Arcelia Hurtado</a> regarding credit in other states.</em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong>12:30-2:00 pm PT/<strong>3:30-5:00 pm ET</strong>: Adultification Bias: Understanding its Impact on Black Girls in the Justice System </strong><br /><em>Eligible for 1.5 Hours of Implicit Bias CLE Credit in CA. <em><a href="mailto:Arcelia@ProsecutorsAlliance.org">Email Arcelia Hurtado</a> regarding credit in other states.</em></em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">Get all the details and speaker information below!</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:spacer {"height":"27px"} --></p> <div style="height:27px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <p><!-- /wp:spacer --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong>Creating a “Child-Fair” Courtroom: Best Practices in Preparing and Presenting Child Witnesses </strong><br /><em>11:00 am-12:30 pm PT/2:00-3:30 pm ET</em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">Join <strong>Thomas D. Lyon, JD, PhD</strong>, director of the USC Child Interviewing Lab and law professor at the University of Southern California, together with <strong>Adrian Van Nice, Chief Trial Deputy in the Boulder District Attorney’s Office</strong>, an experienced prosecutor, for a deep dive into best practices for interviewing  and presenting the testimony of child victims/witnesses.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">This webinar will explore:</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:list --></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --></p> <li class="">Strategies on how to combat these difficulties and how to adapt best practices for your witness preparation and courtroom presentations</li> <p><!-- /wp:list-item --></p> <p><!-- wp:list-item --></p> <li class="">The current consensus on best-practice interviewing methods (including narrative practice and open-ended questions).</li> <p><!-- /wp:list-item --></p> <p><!-- wp:list-item --></p> <li class="">The tensions between the realities of how children remember events and details and the evidentiary needs of investigators and prosecutors</li> <p><!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <p><!-- /wp:list --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><em>Eligible for 1.5 Hours of General CLE Credit in CA</em>. <em><a href="mailto:Arcelia@ProsecutorsAlliance.org">Email Arcelia Hurtado</a> regarding credit in other states.</em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Speakers</span></strong></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:image {"id":5405,"width":"176px","height":"auto","sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","align":"right"} --></p> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><img src="https://prosecutorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Tom-Lyon-350x500-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5405" style="width:176px;height:auto" /></figure> <p><!-- /wp:image --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong>Thomas D. Lyon</strong>‘s goal is to identify the most productive means of questioning children about abuse and violence. He is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Lyon received his PhD. in developmental psychology from Stanford University. He is past-president of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Section on Child Maltreatment (Division 37) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and 30 book chapters and law review articles. He received the APA Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Developmental Psychology and the APSAC Outstanding Research Career Achievement Award. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Justice, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, the California Endowment, the Haynes Foundation, and the California Office of Emergency Services.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:image {"id":5406,"width":"270px","height":"auto","sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","align":"right"} --></p> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><img src="https://prosecutorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Adrian-VanNice-Headshot.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-5406" style="width:270px;height:auto" /></figure> <p><!-- /wp:image --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong>Adrian VanNice</strong> is Chief Trial Deputy in the Office of the District Attorney for the 20th Judicial District, Colorado (better known as the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office), where she has worked since 1999. She currently supervises the Sexual Assault Unit, and prosecutes sexual assaults, human trafficking offenses, and major crimes. She is a board member for Blue Sky Bridge Child Advocacy Center, is a board member for the Colorado SAFE/SANE program, and member of the Sexual Assault forensic compliance committee, and is the primary author of the NDAA White Paper on Sexual assault. She teaches throughout Colorado, nationally, and internationally on topics related to sexual assault and domestic violence investigation and prosecution, prosecution/investigation of child sexual assault, evidentiary issues for prosecutors, confidentiality and privilege, trial skills, and wellness.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong>Adultification Bias: Understanding its Impact on Black Girls in the Justice System </strong><br /><em>12:30-2:00 pm PT/3:30-5:00 pm ET</em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">Adultification bias is a form of discrimination in which adults view<br />Black girls as less innocent and more mature than their white peers. This training, provided by the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law, draws on groundbreaking research on adultification bias against Black girls. This interactive training will provide prosecutors with the tools to recognize and prevent adultification bias.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><em>Eligible for 1.5 Hours of Implicit Bias CLE Credit in CA</em>. <em><a href="mailto:Arcelia@ProsecutorsAlliance.org">Email Arcelia Hurtado</a> regarding credit in other states.</em></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Speakers</span></strong></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:image {"id":5159,"width":"161px","height":"auto","sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","align":"right"} --></p> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><img src="https://prosecutorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Headshot-Rebecca-Epstein-08-edited-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5159" style="width:161px;height:auto" /></figure> <p><!-- /wp:image --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong>Rebecca Epstein</strong> is the Executive Director of the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law. Under Rebecca’s leadership since 2012, the Center has driven policy changes in courts and schools and influenced national discussions on critical issues, such as the criminalization of girls and the biases faced by Black girls.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">Among other publications, Rebecca co-authored Criminalized Survivors: Today’s Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline for Girls (2023) and was the lead author of Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood (2017), which first quantified adultification bias against Black girls.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">Rebecca serves as an expert advisor in several capacities, including the Family Training Committee of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She has held leadership roles at the Girls @ the Margin National Alliance and the National Girls Initiative of the U.S. Department of Justice. Rebecca regularly briefs government agencies on girls’ issues, ranging from the White House to local task forces. Her work is widely published, appearing in media such as The New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class="">Previously, Rebecca was a senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, a staff attorney at Public Justice, and Policy Counsel at the National Partnership for Women and Families. An honors graduate of Brown University and NYU School of Law, she clerked for Judge Raymond A. Jackson and is a member of the District of Columbia, New York, and Supreme Court bars.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:image {"id":5157,"width":"161px","height":"auto","sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none","align":"right"} --></p> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><img src="https://prosecutorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-1.44.15-PM.png" alt="" class="wp-image-5157" style="width:161px;height:auto" /></figure> <p><!-- /wp:image --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p class=""><strong>Professor Thalia González</strong> is a Senior Scholar in the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown University Law Center where she leads the Center’s national research on restorative justice law, policy, and practice. She is a Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of Law and holds a Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair. She is an affiliated faculty member with the UC Hastings Center on Racial and Economic Justice, UC Hastings Center on Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality, and Senior Scholar in the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p>