Training & Continuing Education
Upcoming Lunch & Learn
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 | 12:00-1:00pm CST
SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES & THE LAW
Join us for our April Lunch and Learn featuring Disability Rights Tennessee’s staff attorney, Danita Marsh, and outreach coordinator, Dalmys Sánchez, as they provide a comprehensive framework for engaging with individuals with disabilities. This session will cover disability etiquette and best practices for providing support, as well as emphasize key legal requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Participants will gain practical knowledge and strategies to engage with individuals with disabilities in a respectful and effective manner, incorporating disability etiquette, legal requirements, and best practices into their professional interactions and services. This course provides one hour of general education CLE credits and one hour of general education CME credit.
About Danita Marsh
Danita Marsh joined Disability Rights Tennessee in 2024 as a staff attorney. She was previously employed as an Assistant District Attorney for the 20th Judicial District. Danita spent a decade as a Rule 31 mediator and coordinated victim offender mediation cases for the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center. Danita advocates for various communities by aligning on the side of more health, more education, more safety, and more justice.
About Dalmys Sánchez
Dalmys Sánchez is a bilingual educator, connector, and advocate for people with disabilities. For two decades she has served the disability community in Tennessee through several roles in the early intervention system and in the disability advocacy field. She has taken on outreach efforts to minority communities at every organization she has joined and has proposed and led professional development initiatives around diversity and cultural sensitivity for her peers and community partners. Dalmys is the Outreach Coordinator at Disability Rights Tennessee.
Mediation Training
Mediation training is a seminar focused on the theory and practice of conflict resolution skills necessary for an individual to apply to become listed as a TN Rule 31 mediator. Trainings are either a 40 hour general civil mediation course or 46 hour family mediation course. The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) ensures that mediation trainings comply with Rule 31 requirements, approves listing applications, and oversees court-related mediation under Rule 31. NCRC requires that volunteers be Rule 31 trained.
AOC guidelines and resources for Rule 31 Training
Complete text of Rule 31
