Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law | Advancing justice and opportunity

Advocacy

Poverty Scorecard

The Shriver Center's 2013 Poverty Scorecard provides a fair measure of our elected representatives' commitments to achieving justice and opportunity for Americans living in poverty.

Training

Community Lawyering

Community lawyering stresses the importance of thinking beyond litigation in addressing the kinds of structural problems low-income coummunities face. Join us in Cleveland this September for Community Lawyering training. Learn more.

Clearinghouse Review

The Perils of Guardianship

Advocates are working to move away from the
substituted decision making of guardianship
to a new system of supported decision making.

LATEST NEWS

Save the date for the third annual A Taste for Change...the right to food

Watch our new video profiling the Racial Justice Training Institute

CLEARINGHOUSE REVIEW

Civil rights, guardianship, protection from school bullies, and more are covered in the disability-themed May-June 2014 Clearinghouse Review issue.

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