ALSC is thrilled to announce that our joint project with Dr. Michele Statz, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, and Matthew Burnett, Senior Program Officer for the Access to Justice Research Initiative at the American Bar Foundation, has been granted a Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) Stage 2 Award. We are one of only 19 teams to move forward from Stage 1 of this grant. This work is supported by a $1,000,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. You can see full information about the CIVIC awardees here: https://
Over the next year, we will bring our partners together to move forward on the implementation of our pilot standing up a Community Justice Worker Resource Center to support ALSC’s innovative Community Justice Worker project and newly approved Alaska Bar Rule 43 waiver.
Our project is focused on addressing the growing access to justice crisis in the United States, the project will use evidence-based, community-driven strategies to scale and sustain ALSC’s non-lawyer Community Justice Worker (CJW) program throughout remote Alaska Native communities. The CJW program’s goal is to develop a service delivery model that trains trusted, culturally representative community workers and others already embedded in rural and remote areas across Alaska to provide critical legal advocacy, with the hopes of replicating the model across the U.S..
ALSC would like to extend a special thank you to our local project partners: Alaska Pacific University, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Kodiak Area Native Association and Association of Village Council Presidents. As well as the Alaska Supreme Court and the Alaska Bar Association’s Board of Governors for supporting Alaska Bar Rule 43.5.
