Racial Justice Training Project - Objectives

The goal of the Racial Justice Training Institute is to develop a network of equal justice advocates who are trained in recognizing the impact of structural racism and who have the skills to engage in strategic analysis and creative race-based advocacy to advance a coordinated racial justice agenda. The training institute will provide skills-based training on all facets of advocacy as well as create a network of support and mentoring for equal justice advocates engaged in race-based advocacy. 

As initially conceived, the goals of the Racial Justice Training Project are fivefold:

·         Increase equal justice advocates’ capacities to recognize systems, structures and practices that result in racial disparities and the structural racialization of poverty;

·         Increase equal justice advocates’ capacities to develop and implement effective advocacy strategies to promote racial equity and dismantle systems and structures that result in racial disparities;

·         Build an ongoing national network of advocates committed to and skilled in racial justice work;

·         Develop a cadre of experienced equal justice attorneys and advocates able and willing to serve as faculty for racial justice training programs and as mentors for advocates committed to pursuing racial justice initiatives; and,

·         Move legal services and equal justice advocates nationally to adopt an explicitly race conscious affirmative advocacy approach to their work.