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March Newsletter: Legal Empowerment Webinar | Self-advocacy when faced with eviction | ‘Advanced’ QFT course

March 22, 2024

Legal empowerment webinar on March 26

Our Legal Empowerment Program is hosting a free webinar on March 26. It will focus on building people’s capacity to advocate for themselves in the legal system and beyond. If you work on the front lines of legal services, criminal justice, adult education, or other direct services — at community-based organizations, public agencies, or elsewhere — you may be interested. This hour-long webinar is called “Foster client agency through building self-advocacy skills: A practical strategy for lawyers, advocates, and service providers” and it starts at 1 p.m., Eastern time.

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Sign up by April 2 for our advanced QFT course

If you already have experience and confidence using the Question Formulation Technique, you may be interested in taking its potential to the next level. In this online course, you’ll learn how to scale and expand your practice — to jumpstart and create a deeper culture of inquiry in your classroom, school, district, and/or organization. The course is run through the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is called, Questions at the Core: Extending the Question Formulation Technique to Sustain an Inquiry-Based Culture in Schools.

 


This course is designed for educators who have applied the QFT at least twice (and ideally more) in their setting and are well-versed in the steps of the process and the rationale behind it.

Confronting the eviction crisis

Every 15 seconds, someone in the United States faces eviction, according to the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. In February, our Legal Empowerment Team traveled to Houston to conduct a training with the National Council for State Courts’ Eviction Diversion Initiative. With 3.5 million eviction cases filed in the courts each year, this initiative seeks to help resolve housing disputes in less harmful ways. During the training we worked with eviction diversion facilitators from state courts across the U.S., who support people without representation. Our training shared a practical way for these facilitators to build people’s ability to engage with and navigate eviction proceedings, ask questions, and advocate for themselves.
As one of the facilitators said after the training: People “don’t always understand legal terminology, so when a judge asks them if they have any cross examination questions, they’ll say no. But asking a simple question could help them win their case, and they don’t get the opportunity to ask.”
Sometimes, having the ability and confidence to ask questions can mean the difference between eviction and maintaining a home.

The difference you make for the price of a coffee

The Right Question Institute is a small, independent nonprofit organization. When you make a recurring monthly gift of any size — the price of a cup of coffee, perhaps — you help bring free resources to teachers and schools. Plus, you help equip people in low-income communities with skills and strategies for solving problems, participating in decisions, and making their voices heard — contributing to a more inclusive educational system, society, and democracy. Recurring monthly donations help provide stability and predictability that make this work possible. Thank you for your support.

 

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