/ en /i-am-grantee/model-practices-innovations/provide-legal-services/domestic-violence-legal-advocate-program-justice-survivors-arizona <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Domestic Violence Legal Advocate Program: Justice for Survivors in Arizona</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sierra-chacona…</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2025-08-05T11:44:55-04:00" title="Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 11:44" class="datetime">Tue, 08/05/2025 - 11:44</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">Read how Innovation for Justice trains community-based justice workers to provide trauma-informed, limited-scope legal advice and assistance to domestic violence survivors.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-paragraph-types field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><div class="paragraph paragraph--text-and-image paragraph--text-and-image--default paragraph--type--text-and-image paragraph--view-mode--default align-left" id="domestic-violence-legal-advocate-program:-justice-for-survivors-in-arizona" data-title="Domestic Violence Legal Advocate Program: Justice for Survivors in Arizona"> <div class="paragraph--content"> <div class="paragraph--column"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/hero/public/2025-08/website_carousel_-_dvla_group_photo.png?itok=Kqn6Lt9j" width="500" height="500" alt="DVLA group photo" loading="lazy" class="image-style-hero"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--column"> <h2>Domestic Violence Legal Advocate Program: Justice for Survivors in Arizona</h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-long-description field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Grantees will learn how Innovation for Justice (i4J):</p><p>1. Leveraged unauthorized practice of law reform to open a pathway for community-based justice workers to provide legal assistance;</p><p>2. Employed a design- and systems-thinking approach to develop a course to train Domestic Violence Legal Advocates (DVLAs);</p><p>3. Piloted and launched the DVLA program across Arizona.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-call-to-action field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--call-to-action paragraph--call-to-action--default paragraph--type--call-to-action paragraph--view-mode--default" id="call_to_action" data-title="call to action" data-original-title="call to action"> <div class="field field--name-field-call-to-action field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--link paragraph--link--default paragraph--type--link paragraph--view-mode--default" id="link" data-title="link" data-original-title="link"> <div class="field field--name-field-link field--type-link field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="https://lsc-live.box.com/s/3w7nxyfz926e6pvxu76vfhfagq4665id">View Case Study</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="text-respect fade-in-right"> <img src="themes/lsc/img/decor/respect.svg" alt> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="field field--name-field-pull-quotes-slider-quotes field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="pull-quotes-container"> <div class="pull-quote-slide"> <div class="pull-quote-content"> <p class="pull-quote-text"> </p><p>"Thanks to the continued demonstration of the [DVLA Initiative], Arizona became the first state to codify CBJW service models."&nbsp;</p> <p class="pull-quote-author"> <strong>Antonio Coronado</strong> </p> <p class="pull-quote-role">Professor of Practice, Innovation for Justice</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--tile-container paragraph--tile-container--default paragraph--type--tile-container paragraph--view-mode--default" id="related-content" data-title="Related Content" data-original-title="Related Content"> <div class="field 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