Courts
Child-Centered Education
CVP’s training program fills this gap by equipping attorneys, judges, court staff, and other child-interacting professionals with the skills to engage children in meaningful, developmentally appropriate ways through:
Foundations of Child-Centered Practice
Core CVP beliefs, central tenets of child-centered practice, key attributes of CVP’s approach to a client-directed model of representation, and the legal foundation for child representation.
Child Development Across Stages
Child development overview, breaking down developmental skills and strengths by child’s age and stage, and examining developmental skills and traits such as problem-solving, moral reasoning, and communication skills.
Building Strong Relationships
Understanding the power of relationship building, practice standards for high-quality relationship building, tenets of trauma-informed practice, and relationship-building strategies.
Communication with Children
Communication skills for working with children, techniques for developmentally appropriate communication, strategies for ascertaining the child’s wishes, the role of validation and empowerment, and tools for asking developmentally tailored and effective questions.
