Engage

NAPD’s organizational model is unique, but consonant with public defense culture – inexpensive, virtual, specifically relevant, available on a deadline, and focused exclusively on public defense issues. Instead of depending on staff to deliver a product to the field, NAPD employs a resource-sharing model, making it possible for any member to write, train, request, converse, upload, download, and weigh in on issues where they are experts or need expert help. 
 
There are many opportunities to benefit or contribute as an engaged member of NAPD.

To write a post for the NAPD blog (which posts on our website and through our significant social media community), email your content to Heather H. Hall. Blogs can be on any topic you choose, about an experience, a public defense program, an injustice, a colleague, or anything else. 

To request a webinar on a certain topic, email Ed Monahan, Chair of the NAPD Education Committee. If you have faculty recommendations, be sure to include them. 

To offer a webinar for NAPD’s members, email Jeff Sherr, NAPD’s Training Director,who moderates and provides technical support for all NAPD webinars. This can be on a topic that you have trained locally or a new topic – take it to a national audience. 

To join a listserv, we have a number of options – some moderated, some not, sign up here . Some for certain profession types, some for advocates in leadership positions, some for folks who want to take a role in guiding NAPD’s path.

Follow us on Facebook or Twitter. Encourage your friends and family to do so too! 

To participate in a Committee, email Ernie Lewis. Many NAPD Committees have open membership. If you are interested in supporting education, providing fines and fees advocacy, ending excessive workloads, improving juvenile defense or creating more IT capacity in the defender community, we’d love the help! 

To contribute to MyGideon, NAPD’s Public Defense Website, email Jonathan Friley. MyGideon is the heart of NAPD – an archive of resources, a network of colleagues, thousands of pages of consolidated defender knowledge! Do you need something that isn’t there? Or do you have something that others could use? Be in touch!