Social Innovations Journal Highlights Equal Justice Center

The Social Innovations Journal featured an article about the Equal Justice Center (EJC) written by Philadelphia Bar Foundation Executive Director, Jessica Hilburn-Holmes.  

Hilburn-Holmes addresses Philadelphia’s deep poverty, and how civil legal aid plays a central role in impacting the community and serving those who otherwise would not have access to legal representation. Legal aid helps address the unique, crucial issues that low-income individuals face, such as complex educational barriers, termination of public benefits, or legal emergencies. In addition, legal aid non-profits often provide community education, trainings, and other programming to help the community proactively deal with legal issues. 

To better address the needs of these individuals, civil legal aid non-profits have come together to create the EJC, which will respond to the dire need for civil legal aid services in Philadelphia by offering multiple client-centered services in one centralized location. Most notably, the EJC will transform civil legal aid by creating operational efficiencies, leveraging technology to bring innovative solutions to critical issues, providing opportunities for collaborative programming to overcome challenges in the field, increasing delivery of direct client services, and improving responses to emergent civil legal needs of the community. 

Read more about the EJC and how it plans to transform the delivery of legal aid at Social Innovations Journal.