Pathways to Justice 2019

Participants will learn new approaches to bringing together community stakeholders around common advocacy goals and prioritizing stakeholder voices to create more effective and equitable local and state policies. Session information will include the nuts and bolts of shaping statewide policies through the legislative process: working in a coalition to draft a bill, securing a bill author, garnering bill support, addressing opposition, moving the bill through committees, managing floor votes, and obtaining the Governor's signature. The session will also include specific strategies for how legal aid organizations and community stakeholders can work together to inform policies and how local and state reform efforts can work synergistically to move a collective agenda forward.