Clallam County lawyers & legal news
The April 16, 2010 bar lunch has been canceled, due to the BOG luncheon on April 23.
The next bar lunch May 7 bar lunch will be our annual Law Day event. It is expected there will be a speaker, and awards will be presented.
The May 21 lunch will offer the Ignition Interlock CLE (which was previously scheduled for April 16).
APRIL IS: SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH
&
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
Healthy families is sponsoring 2 events that you are encouraged to attend! Reader’s Theater Plus will be reading excerpts from books published by two local authors. The authors will be present both evening for Q & A and book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the events. (Subject matter not appropriate for children)
Refreshments and Q & A following, at all events.
EVENTS 1: Barbara Richard, author of the trilogy Dancing on His Grave, Walking Wounded, and Chasing Ghosts, along Dauna Cole, author of A Shattered Mind, will be answering questions and autographing books at both venues. You have 2 opportunities at 2 different places to hear 2 local authors tell their life stories as survivors of domestic abuse/sexual assault.
Readers Theater Plus Authors’ Event (held 2 times)
Friday/ April 9 Port Angeles Senior Center – 382 E. 7th St.
Saturday/April 10 Sequim Faith Lutheran Church – W. 382 Cedar St.
Time: 6:30 p.m. at both venues
Cost: FREE! (Donations welcome!)
EVENT 2: Screening of “Rape Is…” with Healthy Families Master’s level therapist, Ann Marie Emineth.
Q & A following
Tuesday/April 27 Port Angeles Healthy Families-1210 East Front Street-Suite Time: 6:00 p.m.
Cost: FREE (Donations welcome!)
PLEASE RSVP BY CALLING 452-3811
Written by:
Becca Korby
Executive Director
Healthy Families of Clallam County
1210 East Front Street Suite C
Port Angeles, WA. 98362
OFF: 360-452-3811
[Editor’s note: There is no scheduled CLE credit for these events, but you may be able to obtain permission by filling out Form One with the WSBA. Please let us know if you have success with obtaining CLE credit.
Mark Baumann]
Hello everyone,
I’m writing to let you know that there are just a few spaces left in the
next Fatherhood First class. We’re working to finalize the exact start date
and location, but the class will begin the last week in April on either the
27th or 29th. [Read more…] about Family Law: Fatherhood class
The Seventh Annual Certified Professional Guardian Continuing Education Conference; Wed, Thur March 30, 31 2010 at Kitsap Conference Center at Bremerton Harborside, 100 Washington Ave, Bremerton, WA 360-377-3785 CLE for attorney has been submitted to WSBA contact Bridge Builders, LTD at 360-683-8334; PO Box 182 Sequim, WA www.bridgebldrs.com for more information.
Peacekeepers, the Port Angeles High School peer mediation program, is looking for adult volunteers and student mediators.
Attorneys, mediators and other adults interest in mediation, are needed to serve as supervisory committee members, and/or trainers. Peacekeepers is a PAHS program, but is maintained by school staff/administration and non-school community members. The primary functions for the adults is not to conduct or assist with mediations, but to:
An initial 2-day training for the program will be held on Thursday and Friday, February 5th and 6th, 2010. Interested adults and students should contact Mark Baumann or Taylor Schraudner at the numbers below.
The February training will be conducted by CRU Institute, a Bellevue company specializing in setting up high school peer mediation programs and curriculum.
Peacekeepers is a joint community effort supported by the Port Angeles High School, Angeles Mediation, Vista, the North Olympic Volunteer Center and the North Olympic Youth Corps. Funding for the cost of training was provided by a generous grant from the Port Angeles Education Foundation, Angeles Mediation, and the Kiwanis of Port Angeles.
Taylor Schraudner, PAHS Vista Volunteer, will serve as the volunteer program coordinator for the 2009-2010 school year.
Taylor Schraudner, Vista, 360-504-1201
Mark Baumann, Angeles Mediation, 360-452-8688
AngelesMediation.com
Angeles Mediation helps people resolve their cases without having to go to court. Their mediators are experienced lawyers who can keep costs down. Angeles Mediation handles family law cases like parenting plans, child support, divorce, dividing up property, and relocation (when one person wants to move away). Domestic violence cases can also be addressed in mediation. For mediation to work, everyone has to want to participate.
Mediation is a process where the mediator helps guide the parties to reach an agreement in their case. Lawyer don’t have to be involved but they can be as much or as little as anyone wants. Mediation allows people to make their own choice about how things get decided, rather than taking their personal problems to court for a judge to tell people how they are going to live. You can also keep your personal information out the the public court file.
Mediation can be started at the very beginning, before anything is filed in court. It can also start shortly after someone files in court or after the court process has been going on for a while.
Because an experienced lawyer is involved, Angeles Mediation makes sure everyone is treated fair. If you need papers for court, they can help get them written up.
Angeles Mediation is based in Port Angeles, and serves Sequim, Forks, Port Townsend, Silverdale, Bremerton, and Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties. Mediation can be done in person or remotely by video and/or phone.
You can find more information at Angeles Mediation’s website or by calling 360-452-8689.
Training for the New Ways for Families program is confirmed and the information is below.
TRAINING:
Cost: $20
CLE credit: 1.5
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time 8-9:30
Location: Peninsula Community Mental Health Center, 118 E. 8th Street,
Port Angeles
Trainer: Bill Eddy (program designer)
New Ways is a counseling/life skills-training program for parents involved in custody issues (divorce, paternity and dependency) and is designed to reduce parental conflict and in particular the exposure of that conflict to the children. It is based on several research studies, including the new longitudinal study from La Trobe University which provides strong research findings that facilitating the parents to “hear” their children makes a decided and enduring difference in the reduction of conflict, reduction of litigation, improvement in the stability of families, and satisfaction of parents with parenting arrangements.
Bill Eddy, the New Ways developer, will be in Victoria, and has graciously offered to come to Port Angeles the following day to do the training in person. At this time, we have about 15 counselors from Clallam and Jefferson committed to take the training (including PCMHC), and most of the family law bar as well. The program will have the most impact if counselors, judges and attorneys understand the program, so I do recommend all family law attorneys take the training. Three (cheap) CLE credits are provided, and a solid grounding in this tool will help you help your clients maximize whatever their goals may be.
The Clallam and Jefferson judges have expressed interest in the program, although they are keen for feedback from the attorneys and are truly interested in cooperative efforts with the bar. I encourage everyone to communicate with the judges if you have any thoughts or opinions about the program, pro or con.
You can find more info at:
Please feel free to call me if you have any questions or would like to know more about the program.
Regards,
Mark Baumann
360-452-8688
http://markbaumann.com/new-ways-for-families™
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 8:30-1:00
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
$5 fee, 4.5 CEU’s provided
Contact Jennifer Charles, 360-417-2384
A one day parenting summit and training will be presented with Kevin Haggerty, MSW, University of Washington, School of Social Work as the keynote speaker.
The program will begin with a PARADE OF LEADERS, including:
· School Superintendent, Diane Reaume
· Clallam County Sheriff
· Pediatrician, Mildred Bay, M.D.
· Clallam County Commissioners
· Peninsula Daily News, Jim Casey
· Commissioner Brent Basden
· Port Angeles and/or Forks Mayors
· County Tribes
· Peninsula College, Barbara Clampett
· Faith Community, Vicki Corson
· Jewish Community, Roland Pfaff
· United Way
· Clallam County Literacy Council, Rebecca Redshaw
· CPS
· Foster Parents, Martha Hastings
· Representing Youth Groups Gina Royal
· Service Clubs, Patti Hannah
· SNAP, Stuber
· Spanish Parents, Lilia Dodd
· Child Care Providers
A variety of breakout sessions on parenting topics will be offered by speakers including: Karen Meyer, Speakers, Rosemary Newday, Lynn Sharpe, Lilia Dodd, Manuela Velasquez , Dan Maguire, Tracey Hosselkus, Larry Dunn, Sterling Epps, Ann Penn and Mark Baumann
Laura O’Neill from Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center advised today that there is another traning coming up in April. The cost of the 40 hour training is $495.00 per attendee and a total of 36 CLE credits will be awarded to any who attend.
The program is scheduled for April 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25. The program will be in Sequim. You can check the website at PDRC.org to view the flyer for additional details such as hours, location and registration information.
Ms. O’Neill also indicated that she is working on a program targeted at attorneys which will have an evening schedule over a number of weeks. If you are interested in a program in the evening, you may want to express your interest directly to her.
Attachement and the Foster Child
Randi Hankins, noted speaker on the dominant approach to childhood attachment theory, will be presenting on March 25, 2009, at the Port Angeles, WA, DCFS office at 201 W. 1st Street, from 9-4. There is no cost for this seminar.
Topics include:
– Trauma and its impact
– How trauma and attachment problems impact behavior
– Running away, power struggles, defiant behavior
– Real tools for caregives
– Strategies to improve behavior and attachment
– Parenting skills
To register, email Bill Todd
“Although not without its critics, attachment theory has been described as the dominant approach to understanding early social development and to have given rise to a great surge of empirical research into the formation of children’s close relationships.[17] As it is presently formulated and used for research purposes, Bowlby’s attachment theory stresses the following important tenets: 1) children between 6 and about 30 months are very likely to form emotional attachments to familiar caregivers, especially if the adults are sensitive and responsive to child communications. 2) The emotional attachments of young children are shown behaviorally in their preferences for particular familiar people, their tendency to seek proximity to those people, especially in times of distress, and their ability to use the familiar adults as a secure base from which to explore the environment. 3) The formation of emotional attachments contributes to the foundation of later emotional and personality development, and the type of behavior toward familiar adults shown by toddlers has some continuity with the social behaviors they will show later in life. 4) Events that interfere with attachment, such as abrupt separation of the toddler from familiar people or the significant inability of carers to be sensitive, responsive or consistent in their interactions, have short-term and possible long-term negative impacts on the child’s emotional and cognitive life.”
From Wikipedia.com,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby#The_.22Attachment_and_Loss.22_trilogy