MIDC Scholarships for Training
The Michigan Indigent Defense Commission is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships to attend the Gideon’s Promise Trainer Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference is designed to teach participants the Gideon’s Promise philosophy, model, and curriculum as well as skills and strategies for effectively teaching and mentoring public defenders working in under resourced systems. In sending future trainers to this conference, the MIDC intends to implement the Gideon’s Promise model as a skills training program for new assigned counsel as one potential model for compliance with the proposed standard for the training and education of attorneys accepting appointments statewide. Upon return, the scholarship recipients will be expected to serve as trainers in this skills training program.
The MIDC scholarship will cover the registration for this program as well as travel-related expenses to Atlanta for the conference.
If interested, please send a short paragraph addressing:
- Name;
- Geographical area covered and type of practice;
- Years of experience in criminal defense and % of practice devoted to criminal defense (appointed or retained cases);
- Ability to travel to Atlanta, Georgia and fully participate in the conference being held June 9-12, 2016; and
- Specific interest in serving as a trainer for new attorneys representing people who are poor and charged with crimes in Michigan.
The requested information should be sent to opportunities@michiganidc.gov no later than Friday April 29, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.
For more information about the Gideon’s Promise Trainer Development Conference, click here.
Read the MIDC’s first proposed standard on the education and training of assigned counsel here.