Useful Links

FLORIDA LINKS

• Family Guide to Delinquency Court
• Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• The Florida Bar
• Florida Department of Corrections
• Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
• Florida Clerks Website
• Florida Public Defender Association
• Florida State Courts
• Forensics - comprehensive resources
• Online Sunshine - The Florida Legislature
• The Children’s Campaign
• The Supreme Court of Florida
• Miami Public Defender Office
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Southern Juvenile Defender Center
• University of Miami Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse

NATIONAL LINKS

• Center for Children’s Law and Policy
• Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
• Children's Defense Fund
• Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University
• Justice Policy Institute
• Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines
• Juvenile Defense Network
• Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
• Juvenile Law Center
• MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development & Juvenile Justice
• National Association of Counsel for Children
• National Counsel of Family Court and Juvenile Court Judges
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• National Center for Juvenile Justice
• National Council on Crime and Delinquency
• National Legal Aid and Defender Association
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Pretrial Justice Institute
• Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence
• U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Vera Institute of Justice
• Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
• Youth Law Center

RESEARCH LINKS

• Florida Statutes on Juvenile Delinquency Chapter 985
• Florida Statutes on Juvenile Dependency Chapter 39
• Florida Juvenile Rules of Procedure
• Florida Bar: Free Research through Fastcase

SUBJECT LINKS

Adolescent Brain Development 

• MacArthur Juvenile Court Training Curriculum
• ABA Article on Adolescent Brain Development
• Adolescent Brain Development Bibliography
• DVD: Inside the Teenage Brain by PBS (Listen to online or buy the DVD or VHS tape)
• Learning about the new brain science behind how teens act

Psychological evaluations

• DSM-IV Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis (Hardcover)
  by James Morrison (Author)
• Quick Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV-TR (Quick Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from Dsm) (Paperback) by American Psychiatric Association (Author)

Special Education Law

• Wrights Law
• COPAA
• Community Legal Services of Mid-Florid, Inc.
• IDEA Website from US Department of Education
• Florida Statutes: Chapters 1000-1009, 39, 381, 402, 409, 411, 486, 984, 6A-1, 6A-4, 6A-6, 6A-7

Trauma

• The Courage to Heal-Third Edition-Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
• The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis
• EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing by Francine Shapiro & Margot Forrest
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents by Alec Miller

Trial Skills

• Trial Manual for Defense Lawyers in Juvenile Court
• Florida Juvenile Law and Practice
  This 17-chapter manual discusses all facets of juvenile practice in Florida, including proceedings for delinquency, dependency, termination of parental rights, and families and children in need of services. Chapters cover relevant rules, statutes, and case law. Vital for every practitioner in the juvenile system.
• Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure
• Juvenile Defender Delinquency Notebook