Peer Advocacy Action Roundtable (PAR) was a pilot legal advocacy training and coaching project for peer-to-peer community lawyering efforts. Located in the Dudley Square neighborhood, it aims to collaborate with residents to develop a toolkit and curriculum to support legal advocacy, problem-solving, and social justice. PAR catalyzed the collaboration with Urban College of Boston and has now evolved to the Urban College of Boston Community Advocacy and Leadership Certificate program.
Our Goals
- Identify resident priorities regarding unmet legal needs and hardships.
- Develop a resident-driven curriculum to address priority legal issues.
Our Collaborators
- Medical-Legal Partnership Boston
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (Boston Promise Initiative)
- Mother's for Justice and Equality
- Race Equity Coalition
Project Leads
- JoHanna Flacks, Esq.
- Ayesha Rodriguez