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

The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn't True

This TED Talk by Mia Birdson, founding Executive Director of Next River, was posted in May 2015. As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let's honor the skills, drive, and initiative that poor people bring to the struggle every day. She asks us to look again at people in poverty: They may be broke — but they're not broken....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