The American Bar Foundation Access to Justice Research Initiative’s new research brief, “Analysis of the Social and Economic Impact of the Alaska Community Justice Worker Program,” is out! Check out some highlights and the full brief below.

▶️ ALSC’s Community Justice Worker (CJW) Program has trained over 200 CJWs in at least one of the following legal areas: SNAP, wills, ICWA, intimate partner violence, and consumer debt.

▶️ Across over 1,400 cases, staff and volunteer CJWs assisted in the recovery of $23.6 million in supplementary food assistance to Alaskan families, children, and older adults.

▶️ The estimated financial return on investment from public benefit value for people and their communities under a federal grant focused on disaster legal assistance was approximately $25 of benefit for every $1 invested.

Link to the brief:  https://www.alsc-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ABF-Alaska-Community-Justice-Brief-FIN.pdf