The Impact of Legal Aid
Systemic Advocacy: Planning Skills and Project Management (in person)
Ohio Legal Aid Taskforces
Sponsored by the Racial Justice Taskforce
October 16, 9:30 AM - 4 PM
Description
This workshop style training will bring together members of Ohio taskforces to strengthen systemic advocacy planning skills. While taskforces often identify important systemic problems affecting our clients, it can be difficult to move projects forward without a clear structure. Without defined goals, timelines, stakeholder strategies, and accountability mechanisms, promising ideas can lose momentum. The Racial Justice Taskforce is bringing this training forward to help groups with actionable advocacy initiatives through project management and strategic planning tools. The training will explore how systemic legal issues often sit at the intersection of poverty and race, and how structured advocacy planning can help advocates more effectively address these inequities.
Registration Information
The intent is for Taskforces to identify a group of members working on a particular advocacy project to attend the workshop together.
Prior to the workshop, each group will be asked to identify a systemic problem within its practice area to use during the training exercises. Participating groups may include representatives from the Community Economic Development, Consumer, Education, Employment, Family, Health & Public Benefits, Housing, Immigrant Advocacy, and Racial Justice Taskforces, their subcommittees, and other affinity groups, including those centered around Veterans, Tax Law, Court Access, and Medical-Legal Partnerships.