The Initiative’s current phase of work, funded by the Office on Violence Against Women, seeks to increase access to economic justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in the civil legal justice system. The Initiative builds lawyers’ and advocates’ capacity to provide consumer and economic civil legal advocacy and to engage in systemic advocacy to remove barriers to economic security for survivors.

A major piece of this project is continued work with four Consumer Rights Demonstration Sites who are focused on building partnerships, enhancing capacity, and conducting systems advocacy to meet the consumer and economic civil legal needs of survivors.