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SUMMARY:Sentencing Discretion: Latest Research and Model Policies
DESCRIPTION:🚨 Please note: as of February 2026\, all Third Thursday trainings will have individual Zoom links for registration rather than a recurring link\, so you will need to register each month. \nThis training explores emerging research and evolving approaches to sentencing discretion. Professor Eyal Aharoni will share insights from his work examining how information shapes decision-making\, followed by a discussion from Oren Gur and Sarah Boyette on efforts within the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to address lengthy sentences. The session will highlight current developments and offer a closer look at how research and practice are intersecting in this space. \nEligible for 1 Hour of General CLE Credit in CA. Email us regarding credit in other states. \nRegister Now\nSpeakers \nEyal Aharoni is an Associate Professor of Psychology\, Philosophy\, and Cognitive Neuroscience at Georgia State University. His research program focuses on moral and legal cognition and behavior including judgment and decision making. He previously conducted policy research at the RAND Corporation\, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mind Research Network for Neurodiagnostic Discovery (2009 – 2012)\, and served as a research fellow for the MacArthur Law & Neuroscience Project (2007 – 2008). Aharoni earned bachelor’s degrees in psychology and religious studies and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara (UCSB). \n  \n \nOren Gur\, PhD\, serves as Policy Advisor to the Philadelphia District Attorney and is Director of Research and the DATA (District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics) Lab. The DATA Lab uses research and data analytics to inform prosecutorial policy and practice\, increase efficiency\, transparency\, and accountability\, and reduce harms through criminal justice reform. Dr. Gur conducts original research\, partners with academic institutions and community organizations\, and evaluates prosecutorial practices to guide evidence-based reforms. His work bridges academic research and practical implementation\, ensuring the District Attorney’s Office operates with transparency while advancing more effective and equitable justice strategies in Philadelphia and beyond. \nOren was born and raised in Philadelphia\, where he lives with his wife and two children. Oren’s B.A. (Urban Studies) and M.S. (Criminology) are from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. (Criminology\, Law & Justice) is from the University of Illinois-Chicago. Prior to joining the DAO\, he was an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Abington.
URL:https://prosecutorsalliance.org/event/sentencing-discretion/
CATEGORIES:Third Thursday
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SUMMARY:Stronger Together: Collaborative Advocacy Between Systems-Based and Community-Based Advocates
DESCRIPTION:When funding shrinks and caseloads grow\, survivors don’t stop needing support — but the gaps between the advocates serving them can widen. This training brings together two lifelong advocates who built a partnership across systems and community lines in a rural community where resources were never guaranteed and collaboration wasn’t optional — it was the only way to serve victims well. \nDrawing on years of shared casework\, they’ll walk through what it actually looks like to coordinate across roles\, navigate turf and trust\, and center survivors’ needs when neither side has enough on its own. Participants will explore how to build and sustain working relationships between prosecution-based victim advocates and community-based organizations\, share resources without duplicating or competing\, communicate across different professional cultures and mandates\, and show up for survivors as a united front — even when your funding sources\, reporting structures\, and institutional pressures look nothing alike. \n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\nSharon Reed has worked in the Criminal Justice field for over thirty years in many capacities. Her roles have included correctional officer\, police officer\, crimes against children detective\, criminal justice instructor\, victim witness director\, and currently a DCJS grant monitor. \nShe served as the Washington County Virginia Victim Witness Director for approximately 13 years. During that time\, her program was recognized by the Virginia Victims Fund and the Virginia House and Senate in 2014. \nSharon instructs across the state of Virginia on victims’ rights\, domestic violence\, basic advocacy\, and collaboration regarding victim services and working with community partners. \nSharon lives and works remotely from her home in Abingdon\, VA with her wonderful son\, Richmond and her two office mates (fur babies) Teeny and Miracle. \nJudy Clark is a Family Services Specialist in Adult Protective Services with the Washington County Department of Social Services. She has a BA in Criminal Justice from Bluefield University. Judy is a certified Sexual Assault Advocate and a Nationally Accredited Victim’s Advocate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe was a community-based advocate for over a decade providing direct services to victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault through crisis intervention and personal advocacy in civil and criminal court proceedings. In her current role\, Judy investigates allegations of abuse\, neglect\, and exploitation of vulnerable and elderly people. She also provides services to improve the lives of these individuals while ensuring their safety and dignity. \nJudy is the Co-Chair of the Washington County and City of Bristol\, VA Domestic Violence Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT)\, Coordinator for the region’s Vulnerable Adult Multi-disciplinary Team (VAM)\, and a member of the Southwest Virginia Elder Justice Task Force. She is part of the Region 4 Department of Criminal Justice Crisis Response Team (CRT) and the NOVA National Crisis Response Team to provide crisis intervention\, education and emotional first aid in the aftermath of a critical incident\, either small-scale or mass-casualty. For eight years\, Judy was part of a team of professionals trained by the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life to provide education to law enforcement officers geared specifically toward victims of violence over the age of 50 across the state. \nIn 2018\, Judy received the Outstanding Community Service Award from Emory & Henry College for her participation and collaboration on the Office on Violence Against Women’s Campus Initiative. \nShe was honored to be one of the recipients of the 2023 Virginia Attorney General Office’s Unsung Hero Award recognizing Virginians who provide exemplary service and support to victims of crime in Virginia.
URL:https://prosecutorsalliance.org/event/stronger-together-sc-training/
CATEGORIES:Survivor Center Training
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SUMMARY:Victim-Centered Prosecution: Practice\, Tensions\, and Impact
DESCRIPTION:🚨 Please note: This training is in lieu of our regular Survivor Center and Third Thursday trainings for the month of April. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this virtual training to mark National Crime Victims’ Rights Week\, featuring Travis County (Austin) District Attorney José Garza and Director of Victim Services Neva Fernandez\, who will share how a prosecutor’s office can center survivor needs in day-to-day practice while advancing reform. They’ll explore how centering victims can help prosecutors build successful cases and strengthen accountability\, but also\, at times\, complicate their role. The conversation will include concrete strategies for building trust\, offering meaningful support\, and aligning victim services with a prosecution model that prioritizes safety\, dignity\, and choice. \n\n\n\nEligible for 1 Hour of General CLE Credit in CA and CO. Email us regarding credit in other states. \nRegister Now\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosé P. Garza was re-elected as the Travis County District Attorney by the people of Travis County in November 2024 and sworn in to serve his second term on January 2\, 2025. During his tenure as district attorney\, he has prioritized reducing gun violence\, centering the needs of survivors and victims in the criminal legal process\, and rebuilding the community’s trust in the criminal justice system. \n\n\n\nSince his election\, DA Garza has focused prosecution efforts on acts of violence and developed programs to address the root causes of crime. In his first term\, DA Garza created a Major Crimes and Homicides Unit\, released a Four Point Plan to Reduce Gun Violence\, and convened the first ever Gun Violence Summit. DA Garza also advocated for gun violence prevention strategies targeting high-risk populations\, including for the creation of a Travis County Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program and the implementation of a county-wide firearm surrender protocol. \n\n\n\nDA Garza has expanded TCDA’s Victim Services Division and led efforts to resolve a historic lawsuit that sexual assault survivors had brought against Travis County and its previous district attorney. Since the settlement of that case\, DA Garza has assembled a community board of sexual assault advocates and survivors to develop and oversee the implementation of a host of reforms to improve sexual assault prosecutions and to strengthen the support offered to sexual assault victims and survivors. \n\n\n\nAs district attorney\, Garza has championed public safety strategies that are community-based and data-driven. Under his leadership\, TCDA launched the Travis County Transformation Project\, a restorative justice program for youthful offenders\, expanded pre-trial diversion programs to connect qualified participants to workforce training\, mental health services\, and substance abuse treatment\, and expunged the records of over 1\,000 individuals who were arrested but never convicted of a crime. \n\n\n\nDA Garza is a graduate of the University of Texas and Catholic University School of Law. Prior to being elected as Travis County District Attorney\, Garza worked for a federal district judge\, served as a public defender with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid and the Office of the Federal Public Defender\, worked in Washington\, DC at the U.S. Congress\, National Labor Relations Board\, and the U.S. Department of Labor\, and was the Executive Director of Workers Defense Project. \n\n\n\nNeva Fernandez is a graduate of New York University\, where she earned her M.A. in Sociology. She has dedicated her career to serving victims of violent crime\, providing direct services as a systems advocate at the Travis County Attorney’s Office and as a community-based advocate with SafePlace and Texas Legal Services Center. \n\n\n\nNeva currently serves as the Victim Services Division Director at the Travis County District Attorney’s Office. In this role\, she leads efforts to ensure trauma-informed\, survivor-centered practices within the criminal legal system. She has conducted trainings on trauma-informed victim engagement throughout Texas and nationally and regularly trains cadets at the Austin Police Department Academy on effective\, trauma-informed approaches to working with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. \n\n\n\nNeva previously served on the advisory group for Healing Justice and on the Austin Commission for Women. She is currently on the Steering Committee for the Austin/Travis County Sexual Assault Response and Resource Team and serves on the Texas Council on Family Violence Public Policy Committee.
URL:https://prosecutorsalliance.org/event/victim-centered-prosecution-practice-tensions-and-impact/
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SUMMARY:Justice Minded: What do mindfulness and resilience have to do with our goals of ‘doing justice’?
DESCRIPTION:🚨 Please note: as of February 2026\, all Third Thursday trainings will have individual Zoom links for registration rather than a recurring link\, so you will need to register each month. \nMany criminal justice professionals seem to face a zero-sum quandary: what obligations can be put to the side so that I can create the time and energy to invest in my own wellbeing? Join us for a conversation about a 2025 pilot with four prosecutors’ offices to explore how targeted efforts focused on both legitimacy and resilience can restore and even generate energy and efficacy for prosecution professionals. Emily LaGratta from LaGratta Consulting\, national subject matter expert on legitimacy and procedural justice\, joins educator and social worker Sarah Schnautz to report out some early findings from their Legitimacy and Resilience Project. In 2025\, the project recruited over 30 prosecutors and victim-witness staff to join a 9-month pilot that included regular training and engagement on the topics of procedural justice and mindfulness. The presentation will include live demonstrations of some exercises and practices and an invitation to inform future iterations of the project going forward. \nEligible for 1 Hour of Wellness CLE Credit in CA. Email us regarding credit in other states. \nRegister Now\nSpeakers \n\nEmily LaGratta\, JD\, leads a consulting shop based in New York City focused on the topics of legitimacy and procedural justice. She is the author and creator of dozens of practitioner tools\, curricula\, and pilot projects on these topics\, including To Be Fair\, We Want to Hear From You!: A Toolkit for Collecting and Learning from Court User Feedback\, and most recently\, an American Judges Association Court Review article co-authored with Tom Tyler\, “Yes there’s a public trust crisis. But your daily efforts can reverse.” \n\n  \nSarah Schnautz\, M.Ed.\, MSW\, is an educator and social worker based in Chicago. She is a certified practitioner of Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). She has worked inter-disciplinarily\, including with courts and prosecutors’ offices\, to design and implement trauma-responsive practices and programming. \n 
URL:https://prosecutorsalliance.org/event/justice-minded-what-do-mindfulness-and-resilience-have-to-do-with-our-goals-of-doing-justice/
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