{"id":533,"date":"2016-02-18T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/csj\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2021-11-23T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:05:24","slug":"areas-of-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/areas-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Areas of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h1>\n<div class=\"colset\">\n<div class=\"col col-3\">\n<div class=\"quicklinks\">\n<div class=\"listing-item\"><a href=\"#access-to-civil-justice\">Access to Civil Justice<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"listing-item\"><a href=\"#children-and-families\">Children and Families<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"listing-item\"><a href=\"#criminal-justice\">Criminal Justice<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"listing-item\"><a href=\"#housing-and-homelessness\">Housing and Homelessness<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"listing-item\"><a href=\"#immigrants-rights\">Immigrants&#8217; Rights<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"listing-item\"><a href=\"#rights-of-low-wage-workers\">Rights of Low-Wage Workers<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"listing-item\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col col-9\">\n<div id=\"access-to-civil-justice\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Areas of Work<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Access to Civil Justice<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\">Increasingly, people seeking legal help in such critical areas as housing, child custody, access to benefits, and consumer problems are unable to obtain the services they need. \u00a0The Center is supporting research, instruction, and projects aimed at addressing civil \u201cjustice gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/bringing-legal-help-to-community-settings\/\">Bringing Legal Help to Community Settings<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/developing-self-help-materials\/\">Developing Self-Help Materials<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/legal-incubators\/\">Legal incubators<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/leveling-the-field-in-collections-court\/\">Leveling the Field in Collections Court<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/making-court-information-understandable\/\">Making Court Information Understandable<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/non-english-speakers-and-the-courts\/\">Non-English-Speakers and the courts<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"children-and-families\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Children and Families<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\">The Center&#8217;s current priorities include ending the detention of immigrant families and children in the Berks County Detention Center; supporting Temple&#8217;s student-run\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdasphiladelphia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Student Discipline Advocacy Service<\/a>\u00a0program; and a\u00a0project to eliminate the practice of charging parents for the costs of their children\u2019s confinement in juvenile facilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/access-to-higher-education\/\">Access to higher education<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/berks-family-detention-center\/\">Berks Family Detention Center<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/youth-sentencing-reentry-project\/\">Juvenile justice<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/unsafe-unhealthy-housing\/\">Remedying unsafe and unhealthy housing<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/welcoming-schools-toolkit-2\/\">Welcoming schools toolkit<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"criminal-justice\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Criminal Justice<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\">Students are engaging in systemic advocacy and individual representation on behalf of people returning from incarceration.\u00a0 The Center is also supporting research on creative models to link people in the criminal justice system and their families with social services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/challenging-the-school-to-prison-pipeline\/\">Challenging the School to Prison Pipeline<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/creating-a-model-for-a-more-independent-public-defenders-office\/\">Creating a Model for a More Independent Public Defenders Office<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/creating-legal-empowerment-tools-for-returning-citizens\/\">Creating Legal Empowerment Tools for Returning Citizens<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/criminal-justice-research-2\/\">Criminal justice research and advocacy<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/helping-incarcerated-people-be-heard\/\">Helping Incarcerated People Be Heard<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/judicial-public-defender-training\/\">Judicial &amp; Public Defender Training<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/youth-sentencing-reentry-project\/\">Juvenile justice<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/mitigating-the-risk-of-hiring-returning-citizens\/\">Mitigating the Risk of Hiring Returning Citizens<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/parole-preparation-project\/\">Parole Preparation Project<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/philadelphia-lawyers-for-social-equity\/\">Reentry from incarceration<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"housing-and-homelessness\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Housing and Homelessness<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\">Philadelphia has an extreme shortage of safe, affordable housing for people with low incomes, and a code enforcement \u201csystem\u201d that allows\u00a0uninhabitable conditions to go uncorrected.\u00a0 Center faculty and staff are working to improve access to affordable housing and to analyze and ultimately strengthen the enforcement process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/unsafe-unhealthy-housing\/\">Remedying unsafe and unhealthy housing<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/housing-for-community-legal-services\/\">Affordable housing and racial justice<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"immigrants-rights\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Immigrants&#8217; Rights<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\">Illegal detention, language barriers, denials of drivers\u2019 licenses and essential services, and other injustices affect many immigrants in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Sheller Center students and faculty are advocating on their behalf, as well as engaging in research regarding immigrants\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/access-to-higher-education\/\">Access to higher education<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/berks-family-detention-center\/\">Berks Family Detention Center<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/toolkit-of-model-policies-to-end-ice-collaboration\/\">Ending ICE Collaboration<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/ice-out-of-courts\/\">ICE out of courts<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/immigration-detainers\/\">Immigration \u201cdetainers\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/non-english-speakers-and-the-courts\/\">Non-English-Speakers and the courts<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/temporary-workers\/\">Temporary workers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/welcoming-schools-toolkit-2\/\">Welcoming schools toolkit<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"rights-of-low-wage-workers\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Rights of Low-Wage Workers<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\">Wage theft is a huge issue in Pennsylvania: according to the Center\u2019s own research, Pennsylvania workers lose from\u00a0<em>$19 million to $32 million per week<\/em>\u00a0in wages earned but not received.\u00a0 Faculty and students at the Center are engaged in research, systemic advocacy, and individual representation on behalf of these exploited workers. \u00a0We also support a VITA tax clinic, which helps people with low moderate incomes complete their tax returns and, in many cases, receive tax credits to which they are entitled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 26.6667px\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/domestic-workers\/\">Domestic workers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/wage-theft-cases\/\">Individual representation<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/low-wage-worker-organizing\/\">Low-Wage Worker Organizing<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/non-compete-agreements\/\">Non-compete agreements<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/rights-of-restaurant-workers\/\">Rights of restaurant workers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/temporary-workers\/\">Temporary workers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/vita-volunteer-income-tax-assistance-program\/\">VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Program<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/csj\/project\/wage-theft\/\">Wage theft<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to Civil Justice Children and Families Criminal Justice Housing and Homelessness Immigrants&#8217; 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