This course provides participants with the necessary skills to write various types of court petitions.
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Understand the basic functions of petition
- Clearly integrate good child welfare practice and expertise into reports to be filed with the court
- Understand the effect of legal pleadings, including WIC 300 (a)-(j), 342, 387 and 388
- Identify key elements of proper documentation
Through writing exercises with real-time writing and feedback, participants will increase competency in critically assessing and crafting allegations and writing court petitions.
Note: Participants who have previous experience writing petitions will be invited to submit a petition that they have written in advance of the training in order to workshop the petition in class.
Course Code
289391