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FEATURED EVENTS February 21ö23, 2003: Ninth Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School Are you a community activist, advocate, lawyer or law student? Are you interested in innovative and progressive approaches to lawyering and non- traditional methods for achieving social change? If so, mark your calendar for this event to be held at Yale Law School. This conference highlights the benefits of grassroots organizing and non-traditional methods of lawyering in the fight for justice. It promises to be valuable to all community justice practitioners. For more information, contact alexandra.block@yale.edu. 2003 Equal Justice Conference presents another Community Lawyering opportunity! April 10ö12, 2003, Portland, OR NLADA and the ABA are providing another exciting opportunity to attend communityöbased workshops! This year, the featured community lawyering workshop is: Moving Beyond Access: How Community Based Problem Solving Can Help Achieve Significant Outcomes for Our Clients. Come hear how others have incorporated a community based approach into their advocacy efforts and receive tips on how you too can become a part of this rapidly growing movement! For more information on this conference, contact: Dorothy Jackson at 312.933.5766 or visit: www.nlada.org/training/train_civil

Advancing Immigrant Workersâ Rights
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has released a new report entitled ãLow Pay, High Risk: State Models for Advancing Immigrant Workersâ Rights.ä This publication provides useful information on the rights of immigrant workers including model bills and regulations. In addition, you will find examples of campaigns, at the local level, dedicated to improving the rights of immigrants. To learn more about laws, legislation and policies that benefit immigrant workers (including undocumented workers), visit the NELP website at: www.nelp.org.

Make Sure Your Local Agencies are Providing the Proper Services to Limited English Proficient individuals!
On June 18, 2002 the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued its guidance addressing ãmeaningful accessä to services for Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals. This guidance describes what reasonable steps agencies in receipt of federal monies should take in order to ensure that the people they serve are given such ãmeaningful accessä. The right to have ãmeaningful accessä to programs and services from agencies who receive federal monies, stems from Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, the DOJ recently released a letter containing useful examples of how the DOJ requirements translate in the real world. This helpful letter and the DOJ guidance itself can be found on the DOJ website at http://www.lep.gov.

Mapping The Literature
CJRC now includes a bibliography (partially annotated) of recent publications and articles that relate to the community justice model. Check out topics such as the Hmong campaign on welfare reform; higher education and community lawyering; and problemösolving courts.

New Report From Advancement Projectâs Urban Peace/Policing Project
A coalition of clergy, religious leaders, and community activists have created a plan entitled NeighborhoodöPolice Partnerships: A Proposal for New York City which contains comprehensive recommendations on ways to improve neighborhoodöpolice relations, police hiring procedures and training for police personnel, to name a few. The report was recently released in December 2002.

CJRC Calendar
Please email us at cjrc@advancementproject.org with information on events of interest.

Civil Rights Data from schools across the country is finally available to the public!
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the United States Department of Education has finally released the 2000 civil rights data, which includes: race, enrollment, disabilities, language, discipline, and a host of other data, to be available to the public. Navigating OCRâs site to find the data may be difficult, so in order to make your search for data easier, we have composed a tutorial to assist you.

• Louder Than Words: Lawyers, Communities and the Struggle for Justice, is a video based on Louder Than Words: Lawyers, Communities and the Struggle for Justice, a report published in March 2001 and authored by Advancement Project co-director Penda Hair with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. To obtain a copy of this video, please email your request to the Community Justice Resource Center.
  
• So Goes A Nation: Lawyers and Communities, a video highlighting innovative community-based lawyering by legal services and other creative lawyers in the New York metropolitan area, was produced by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Fordham University School of Law. A copy can be ordered from NY Lawyers for the Public Interest, 151 West 30th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001-4007, Tel (212) 244-4664, Fax (212) 244-4570, TDD (212) 244-3692, info@nylpi.org.
  
• Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) has produced a short, inspirational video (ãLos Angeles, The Capital of the Working Poorä) that highlights several of the organizationâs successful campaigns. http://www.laane.org/video/RealVideo%20version/realLAANE.rm

This newsletter is supported in part by grants from the Program on Law & Society of the Open Society Institute, The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.