NASAMS: Financial Wellness and Private Practice

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This interactive small group session focuses on equipping mitigation specialists with essential financial wellness knowledge and practical tools for developing their private mitigation practice. Participants will also explore how financial wellness can be used as a tool for social justice.

Upon completion, participants will be able to identify tools and resources for financial literacy within a mitigation practice, including tools for timekeeping, bookkeeping, and retirement planning.
Upon completion, participants will be able to explore the various revenue streams available to mitigation specialists in private practice and apply strategies for maintaining a healthy work-life balance while managing a business.
Upon completion, participants will be able to consider financial wellness as a social justice issue for both clients and within the profession.

Mary Veral

Mary Veral is a licensed clinical social worker who has spent her nearly 20-year career advocating for people impacted by the criminal legal system. Currently, she runs a private practice focused on defense-based social work and mitigation investigation for capital, non-capital, and post-conviction cases in both state and federal courts. She also serves as a commissioner for the Los Angeles County Sybil Brand Commission for Institutional Inspections. Previously she worked as an Investigator and Social Worker with the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, as well as the Jails Project Coordinator at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. She earned her B.A. from the University of Iowa and her Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington.