This training covers the skills essential to conducting an efficient, respectful, fair, impartial, and compliant Title IX hearing. It is ideal for the Title IX Coordinator, hearing officer, decision-maker, hearing coordinator, hearing administrator, or any stakeholder needing to work through the intricacies of setting up and running a smooth hearing. This training includes a step-by-step overview of the hearing process. 

Training Materials

Participants receive a hearing checklist, guide for Zoom setting for hearings, model rules of decorum, and hearing script sample. 

Agenda

• The purpose of a hearing

• Incorporating a trauma-informed approach within a due process framework

• Hearing preparation

• Setting party expectations

• The roles of a coordinator, hearing panel, and hearing chair

• The role of the advisor, and efficiently working with them

• Hearing day: managing the room

• What process is due

• Live examining and cross-examining

• Technical aspects of a hearing

• Writing the decision/outcome letter

NOTE: There is a $700 fee per institution for this training and 1/5/23 training (as many individuals from institution can attend). Session will be recorded for those who cannot attend.