Friday, August 29, 8:30am-5pm

Fort Sill Federal Credit Union, Community Room (1614 NW 67th Street, Lawton, OK 73505)

Registration: $10 (includes morning refreshments, CLE and CEUs for Social Work and Behavioral Health (7 credit hours)

Limited number of OFR scholarships available – first come first serve, contact Allyson McCormick, allyson.mccormick@laok.org for more information

Workshop description: QIC-ChildRep is an evidence-based best practice model of child representation. This training was developed to advance the QIC-ChildRep Best Practice Model and integrates key aspects of Oklahoma child welfare law and practice, including Oklahoma practice standards, with the goal of advancing high quality legal representation for attorneys representing children in Oklahoma child welfare cases.

Timothy Michaels-Johnson earned his Juris Doctorate with Honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2011, and focused his career in child welfare. He joined the District Attorney’s Office of Tulsa County and prosecuted deprived child cases for nearly 5 years. Michaels-Johnson spent 4 years working for Tulsa Lawyers for Children representing children and training TLC’s volunteer attorneys, before serving an additional 4 years as TLC’s third Executive Director. Michaels-Johnson is now working with the Oklahoma Office of Family Representation assisting in the development and implementation of Oklahoma’s central office of parent and child representation as the Region 5 Managing Attorney for Child Representation. In addition, Michaels-Johnson is the Oklahoma State Coordinator for the National Association of Counsel for Children and has returned to the University of Tulsa College of Law as an adjunct professor teaching Juvenile Law. In December 2024, Michaels-Johnson was also appointed by Governor Stitt to represent the Oklahoma Bar Association as a Commissioner on the Oklahoma Commission on Youth and Children.

Tara Glenn, LCSW, IMH-E® (III)– Tara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is an endorsed infant mental health clinician by the Oklahoma Association of Infant Mental Health. Tara’s work has focused on treating childhood sexual abuse and trauma, treating families with infants/young children who have experienced scary and confusing things or have experienced attachment disruptions, and serving adults with complex trauma histories. Tara is an EMDR trained therapist as well as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and Circle of Security. Tara believes we are created for connection and with a purpose and wants to serve people so that any barriers to that fulfillment can be diminished.