Winter Training Institute

After completing the Summer Training Institute, participants join the larger Gideon’s Promise community every six months for follow-up meetings.  These semiannual gatherings offer a selection of training sessions that:

• Build on the foundational lessons introduced at the Summer Institute
• Advanced trial skills
• Dealing with specific evidentiary issues
• Introduce new topics critical to the group’s development
• Sentencing advocacy
• Immigration consequences
• Mental health
• Forensic science