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A Road Map for Building an Equal Justice Community - 020029

Abstract Number: 020029

July 2002

Leaders in Washington State's Equal Justice Community created "A Road Map for Building a Civil Equal Justice Community" with a grant from the Law and Society Program of the Open Society Institute. This handbook is a tool for guiding the development and enhancement of effective and enduring equal justice communities. The authors define an equal justice community as "a group of individuals and organizations united through a common, expressed vision and a shared set of values, who are bound together by a sense of fidelity to the promise of justice and equality, and who are willing to put personal, professional and organizational allegiances aside in pursuit of a common justice ideal." A strong equal justice community will in turn support the most effective delivery of civil equal justice to low-income people. Readers can learn from Washington State's journey and create their own equal justice communities with knowledge gained from their experience.

The handbook is divided into two parts: Part I identifies 11 key steps for developing and augmenting equal justice communities. Part II contains reference materials pertaining to the creation of Washington State's equal justice community. To access this manual as a PDF document, click on the text below.

Contact Information:

Joan Fairbanks
Washington State Access to Justice Board
2101 Fourth Avenue, Suite 400
Seattle, Washington 98121-2330
Phone: (206) 727-8282
Email

Additional Information:

Due the extremely large size of this manual (25mb), you can only downloand this manual chapter by chapter. Upon request, a single PDF document can be emailed to you. Submit requests to LRI@lsc.gov.

- A Road Map for Building an Equal Justice Community -

Part I

Part II

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