Browse Clearinghouse Review articles by category
- Attorneys & Legal Services
- Bankruptcy
- Civil Procedure & Administrative Law
- Civil Rights
- Communications & Marketing
- Consumer
- Criminal
- Disability
- Economic Development
- Education
- Elections
- Employment
- Environmental Justice
- Family Law
- Food Programs
- Fundraising & Development
- Government and Governmental Services
- Guardianship & Conservatorship
- Health
- Housing
- Immigration
- Juveniles
- Leadership
- Legal Research
- License (Auto & Others)
- Mental Health
- Migrants
- Native Americans
- Prisons
- Public Utilities & Energy
- Rural Issues
- Senior Citizens
- Social Security & SSI
- Taxation
- Technology
- Training
- Unemployment Compensation & Unemployment Insurance
- Veterans & Military
- Welfare
- Wills & Estates
- Workforce Development
Recovering Sargent Shriver’s Vision for Poverty Law: The Illinois FamilyCare Campaign and the Insight Approach to Conflict Resolution and Collaboration
Sargent Shriver hoped that legal services for the poor would entail more than “lawyer-made remedies.” He saw legal services as a way to bring about “workable justice.” The FamilyCare campaign of United Power for Action and Justice and the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law exemplifies Shriver’s vision of attorneys collaborating with a community organization to bring about change through legislation, not the courts. The insight approach facilitates more such collaborations.
Copies of this article are available for purchase
online for $15 apiece.
Related Articles
- John Bouman, The Power of Working with Community Organizations: The Illinois FamilyCare Campaign--Effective Results Through Collaboration (January-February 2005);
- John Bouman, Growing the Toolbox: Diverse Strategies for Public Interest Lawyers in Campaigns to Expand Access to Health Care for Low-Income People (July-August 2009)
Feeds: Atom
Southwest is the official airline of the Shriver Center.
| Headquarters: | Boston Office: |
| 50 East Washington Street, Suite 500 | 89 South Street, Suite 407 |
| Chicago, Illinois, 60602 | Boston, Massachusetts, 02111 |
| (312) 263-3830 (voice) | (617) 946-4672 (voice) |
| (312) 263-3846 (fax) | (617) 275-8991 (fax) |
© Copyright 1996-2012 Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law