MAPLE LEAF GAZETTE
March 2000    Volume 4, Issue 3
A reminder to everyone...The Maple Clinic has four treatment groups for offenders of sexual misconduct both in Traverse City and in Kalkaska. Three of the groups are for adult males and the fourth one is an adolescent group for males. These groups meet in the afternoon or evening and are continuous groups. New referrals can be added at any time. Call the Clinic for more details.	Faller Seminar is filling up...don't wait!		Improvement made to www.Mapleclinic.com
	April 28th is a month away...just long enough so that some people may put off or forget to register for the Seminar designed to help clinicians improve their confidence and therefore improve their testimony when called to Court. It may not be your favorite thing to do...testify in Court, but in the human service field, you are likely to encounter situations in which your testimony will be required. You can't refuse a subpoena issued by the Court to tell what you know about a given situation. So...it is in yourinterest to learn how to testify. If you have any special problems that need to be addressed in order to participate in our Seminar, please contact the Administrator of The Maple Clinic at 1-231-946-9575 or fax your message to 1-231-947-5781 or e-mail us	maple@centuryinternet. We will do what we can to facilitate your special need. There are group rates in effect for this Seminar: groups of two pay $60; groups of three pay $55 and groups of four or more pay at $50.The stipulation is that group rates are for clinicians from the same group or agency. So far, not many clinicians from the Upper Peninsula have registered; I hope this reminder will motivate you to register soon. There's nothing worse than ineffectual testimony in helping to settle a dispute.	Now that we no longer have to worry about Y2K problems, we have turned our attention to our web page. We have up- dated it and have added new pages. For example, if you want to see old issues of our newsletter, The Maple Leaf Gazette, go to our web page, find the item marked Newsletter, then click on Take a Look. You may also find other	articles of interest. We have added a page describing the beginning of The Maple Clinic in 1973 and it's various offshoots. We will soon revise our Seminar page listing the previous speakers which we have sponsored in our Seminar series. We urge you to check it out. You have found us. WELCOME! Thank you for looking us up!
					There are THREE SEPARATE activities
			Our main activity is, of course, the April 28th seminar with Kathleen C. Faller, PhD, ACSW. that is an all day activity at the Holiday Inn. Cost: $65 or less. To prepare for the main seminar, we are offering professionals an opportunity to view the presentations from our 1998 Seminar, to wit: On Saturday, April 1st, between 10:00 and 11:30 AM, we will be offering an	opportunity for professionals to view the video of Judge Philip E. Rodgers' discussion about the Court and how it works. Cost: $10. Then on Saturday, April 8th, from 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM, we will be showing a video of Prosecutor Charles H. Koop's presentation about the use of Expert Witnesses. Cost: $10. Register by phone (231) 946-9575 or fax (231) 947-5781.