"How to Create and Sustain a Successful Social Justice Collaborative"
by Louise G. Trubek and Jennifer J. Farnham - 030118
Abstract Number: 030118
July 2003
Louise Trubek and Jennifer Farnham wrote "How to Create and Sustain a Successful Social Justice Collaborative" to provide practitioners with guidance on building innovative partnerships between lawyers and non-lawyers in order to better serve low-income clients. This manual highlights several collaborative efforts between lawyers and non-lawyers and these collaborations illustrate various ways that service providers are networking and engaging in multidisciplinary practice to meet the holistic needs of their clients. The manual includes sections on starting out, building a collaborative practice, and sustaining the practice. An appendix is also included containing tips on receiving grants as well as sample intake, referral, and screening forms from existing collaborative projects.
In addition to the manual, Trubek and Farnham also published an article entitled "Social Justice Collaboratives: Multidisciplinary Practices for People" in Clinical Law Review exploring how social justice collaboratives are enhancing and augmenting services available to low-income clients. Trubek and Farnham's article examines several of the case studies referenced in the manual in more depth and uses these examples to illustrate how innovative approaches to service delivery can begin to address a client's legal and non-legal needs. Access the manual and article online through the links below. These two publications were supported with funding from the Open Society Institute.
Contact Information:
Louise Trubek University of Wisconsin Law School 975 Bascom Mall Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Phone: (608) 262-1679 Email
LSC:
America's Partner for Equal Justice 