LFAA Resources

Cultural Competency: Providing Empowering and Trauma-Informed Pro Bono Legal Services

This training video provides an overview of power, privilege, and identity to assist advocates with recognizing how best to communicate best with clients. The training also provides an introduction to trauma and how best to address those traumas to create a successful relationship. ...Read more

National Implicit Bias Network

A platform for scholars, organizers, and advocates to translate academic research into practical information and tools that can be used to explain and address inequality....Read more

Implicit Bias and Cultivating Cross-Cultural Competence in Legal Practice

This PowerPoint presentation by Sameera Hafiz, Policy Director, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and Lillian M. Moy, former Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, was published in 2009. This training defines cultural competence, demonstrates the Stroop test (an implicit association test), introduces the concept of implicit bias, exposes learners to the 10 Commandments of Cultural Competency, and applies a cultural lens to legal practice....Read more