Registration link is at bottom of page.
DETAILS:
When: Friday, November 7, 2025, Time TBD
Where: Blatt Building Room 112, (Statehouse Grounds) 1105 Pendleton Street, Columbia, SC
Parking: See Parking Information Below.
Cost: Free
CLE: Hours MCLE Credit Course No.:
Who Should Attend:
MANDATORY for all Public Defenders and Indigent Defense Contract attorneys who handle juvenile defense cases and who have not previously attended Waiver Training.
RECOMMENDED for all Public Defenders who have not previously attended waiver training.
NOTICE: This training will be more comprehensive than what was offered at the PD Conference last year, so even if you have attended waiver training in the past, you are welcome to attend this training.
THIS SEMINAR IS ONLY OPEN TO SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC DEFENDERS, INDIGENT DEFENSE CONTRACT ATTORNEYS, PUBLIC SECTOR ATTORNEYS, AND STAFF
AGENDA
TBD
PARKING
STREET PARKING - NOT RECOMMENDED - All street parking around the State House is metered.
The City now enforces the parking meters Monday – Saturday from 9 am to 6 pm.
METER FEEDING WARNING: Our sessions will not be convenient for feeding the meter. Feeding the meter is illegal. The phone app will not allow you to feed the meter. City employees issue tickets for meter-feeding.
The maximum time is shown by the color of the meter
Blue meters 5 to 10 hours . Green Meters 2 hours . Silver Meters 1 hour . Red Meters 30 Minutes
SURFACE PARKING:
PARKING LOTS - PAID
1320 Senate Street (Next to Assigned Commuter Parking Lot on Senate Street) – Honk Mobile App
1212 Pendleton Street (Across Street from Blatt Building) – Honk Mobile App
1040 Gervais Street (Corner of Gervais and Assembly Streets) – Passport App Zone 9005
1041 Gervais Street (Corner of Gervais and Assembly Streets) – Passport App Zone 6010
DOWNLOAD THE APPS
Passport Parking App: https://www.passportparking.com/
Honk Mobile App: https://www.honkmobile.com/drivers/
Surface Parking Options (Click picture for larger version.)
GARAGE PARKING
PARKING GARAGE MAP AND INSTRUCTIONS:
FOOD
SCCID will provide beverages (coffee/water/soft drinks) and snacks in the morning and during breaks.
Lunch will be Provided: Sandwich boxes/Salads from 
.
Please make your lunch selection when you register. For details see MENU LINKED HERE.
SPEAKERS
Susan C. Knight, Ph.D., ABPP
Dr. Susan Knight is a clinical psychologist with specialization in forensic psychology. She has a Master’s Degree (M.A.) and Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed a predoctoral internship in forensic and correctional psychology at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, with the U.S. Department of Justice. Subsequently, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Forensic Psychology with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, in Los Angeles, California. Since 2009, she has been board-certified in Forensic Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).
Dr. Knight has worked treating and evaluating defendants in county, state and federal correctional settings, including the Twin Towers Correctional Facility within the Los Angeles County Jail. For six years, she was on faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, teaching and training medical students, psychiatry residents and forensic psychiatry fellows in conducting forensic evaluations. She has provided lectures and invited talks to various groups of attorneys, judges and mental health professionals in the area of forensic psychology. She is presently employed in private psychological practice wherein she conducts forensic psychological evaluations for private and public legal entities, and provides consultation to court systems. She specializes in criminal forensic psychological evaluations including the assessment of legal competencies; criminal responsibility and mental state defenses; violence risk assessment; sexual offender risk assessment; mitigation/sentencing evaluations, and capital case evaluations. Regarding juvenile forensic assessments, she conducts pre-waiver evaluations in Family Court, and Aiken/Miller cases, in General Sessions, for JLWOP defendants. She holds adjunct faculty positions at the Charleston School of Law, teaching a course in Psychiatry and the Law, since 2011; and at Cornell Law School, since 2015, where she provides instruction and consultation to law students in the capital case and juvenile justice clinics.
Applied Psychological Services, LLC
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Board-Certified Forensic Psychologist
1941 Savage Rd., Ste. 400A
Charleston, South Carolina, 29407
(843) 637-5729-Phone; (843) 410-2802-Fax
knight@apsforensic.com
SAMANTHA M. LUCK
Ms. Luck is a Juvenile Defender Advocate with the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense (SCCID). Prior to joining the SCCID, she served as a staff attorney at the SC Human Affairs Commission. Ms. Luck worked for nearly six years as a Juvenile Public Defender for both Richland and Lexington Counties where she became well-versed in the area of juvenile defense and advocacy. In addition to her work as a juvenile defender, she was as an attorney for Richland County Court Appointed Special (CASA), representing court-appointed Guardian ad Litems for children in the foster care system. Having started out her legal career as a youth advocate, Ms. Luck also has extensive knowledge in the area of special education law and worked at Disability Rights South Carolina (formerly Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc.) for several years. There, she represented students with disabilities in public primary and secondary education, ensuring the protection and enforcement of students’ rights under the IDEA, Section 504, and the ADA.
Ms. Luck obtained both her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and J.D. from the University of South Carolina. During law school, she clerked in the family court division for the Richland County Public Defender Office and during that time, also became a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem. She is a Certified Juvenile Training Immersion Program (JTIP) Trainer and was a participant in the 2017 JTIP Summer Academy. Throughout her legal career, Ms. Luck has been a strong advocate for youth in S.C. and believes wholeheartedly in fighting for the rights of children. She believes that by investing in community services and programs aimed at addressing the needs of youth, rather than incarceration, youth will have greater success at rehabilitation and better future outcomes.
Ms. Luck serves on the Board of Directors for Roses in Concrete South Carolina and is a member of the J.T. Farmer Advisory Board for the Law Offices of S. Chris Davis.
HOW TO REGISTER
IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ COMPLETELY BEFORE YOU TRY TO REGISTER:
Public Defenders and Contract Attorneys:
- If you are a public defender or indigent defense contract attorney, you should have an SCCID account.
- If you have an SCCID account, you MUST log in to your account before you click the Register button.
- Use the blue USER LOGIN button at the top of the screen to log in.
If you are a public defender, and you do not have an SCCID public-defender account, please follow the SCCID Website Account Setup Instructions linked below to set up your account.
SCCID WEBSITE ACCOUNT SETUP INSTRUCTIONS
Other Eligible Attendees and Outside Faculty
- If you are NOT a public defender or Indigent Defense Contract Attorney, and you are eligible to attend this event, you should be able to register without logging in. You will be asked to create a password when you register to access certain parts of the webpage. If you get any error in registering, please contact LBrown@sccid.sc.gov or SHampton@sccid.sc.gov.
After you submit your registration for the event, you should receive a confirmation email.
For questions about registration, or if you need to update your registration information, please contact Lawrence Brown LBrown@sccid.sc.gov, 803-734-1244 or 803-270-7657(mobile) or Steve Hampton SHampton@sccid.sc.gov