A Conversation About Justice
Issues in Rural New York:
Planting the Seeds for
Collaborations and Partnerships
Conference Locations |Conference Description| Presentations from Speakers | Resource Materials
Conference Locations and Programs:
Saratoga Springs - October 29-30, 2007, Saratoga Hotel and Conference Center, 534 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York - Program
Geneva - November 14-15, 2007, Ramada Geneva Lakefront, 41 Lakefront Drive, Geneva, New York - Program 
Conference Description
The Conferences are being held to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders from throughout rural New York to explore the barriers that poor and low-income rural New Yorkers face in seeking to address their legal needs and to help facilitate collaborative strategies for overcoming those barriers. It is anticipated that the Conferences will be the beginning of an ongoing discussion that will lead to the development of various justice networks and partnerships throughout the State.
This website contains information and updates about the conferences, as well as suggested reading for participants. We hope you will avail yourself of some of these materials so that we may have vigorous and informed discussion, leading to concrete ideas and suggestions going forward from the conferences. If you know of additional materials that are pertinent and worthwhile, please email Carol Salem at csalem@courts.state.ny.us so that we can share this with all participants.
If you are interested in attending or need information, please contact Cecille Latty at 646-386-4715 or clatty@courts.state.ny.us.
Presentations at "A Conversation About Justice Issues in Rural New York: Planting the Seeds for Collaboration and Partnerships"
 Barry Mahoney: Collaborations to Improve Rural Justice 
Charles W. Fluharty: The Face of Justice in Rural New York: A Context for Consideration of Rural Issues and Rural Poverty
Elizabeth Monaco: Collaborations and
Partnerships:
The Key to Creating Sustained
Change in Communities
Jose Guillen: A Conversation about Justice Issues in Rural New York: Planting the Seeds for Collaborations and Partnerships
Sheila W. Schwanekamp: Collaboration as a Path to Equal Justice: N.Y.S. Problem Solving Courts and 8th Judicial District Initiatives
Resource Materials
A. Access to Justice
Aimee Baehler and Barry Mahoney, Project Report: Strengthening Rural Courts, The Justice Management Institute (2005) (posted with permission of the Justice Management Institute)
California Court System, Binational Resource Materials, Field Guide (October 2007) (published with permission)
Kathryn Fahnestock, The Loneliness of Command: One Perspective on Judicial Isolation, The Judges’ Journal, American Bar Association, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring 1991) (posted with permission)
The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Ten Commandments of Cultural Competence: The Guiding Principles of Client Service (posted with permission)
The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Utilization of Language Services for Clients/Prospective Clients With Limited English Proficiency, (2004) (posted with permission)
Kathryn Fahnestock, Not in My County: Rural Courts and Victims of Domestic Violence (1991) (posted with permission)
Legal Services Corporation, A Report on Rural Issues and Delivery and the LSC-Sponsored Symposium (April 2003)
LSC-Sponsored Symposium National Steering Committee, A Proposal to Establish The National Rural Justice Center (2003)
Claire A. Parins, Presence and Partnerships: Delivering Pro Bono Legal Services in Rural Communities, 35 Clearinghouse Rev. 743 (2002) (posted with permission of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law © 2002)
Larry R. Spain, Public Interest Law: Improving Access to Justice: The Opportunities and Challenges of Providing Equal Access to Justice in Rural Communities, 28 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 367 (2001) (posted with permission)
Unified Court System, Action Plan for the Justice Courts
Unified Court System of New York, Court Interpreting in New York: A Plan of Action (April 2006).
B. Poverty and Discrimination
Debra Lyn Bassett, Distancing Rural Poverty, 13 Geo. J. Poverty Law & Pol’y 3 (2006) (posted with permission)
Debra Lyn Bassett, Ruralism, 88 Iowa L. R. 273 (2003) (posted with permission)
John A. Martin, Jose Octavio Guillen, and Diane Altamirano, Borderland Justice: Working With Culture in Courts Along the US/Mexico Border, Court Manager (Fall 2007) (posted with permission)
John A. Martin, Marcus Reinkensmeyer, Hon. Barbara Rodriguez Mundell, and Jose Guillen, Becoming a Culturally Competent Court Court Manager (Fall 2007) (posted with permission)
Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers, and David Mushinski, Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity, Penn State Press (2006)
Katherine Porter, Going Broke the Hard Way: The Economics of Rural Failure, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 969 (2005) (Copyright 1999 by The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System; Reprinted by permission of the Wisconsin Law Review)
Lisa R. Pruitt, Missing the Mark: Welfare Reform and Rural Poverty, 10 J. Gender Race & Just. 439 (2007) (posted with permission)
Lisa R. Pruitt, Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural, 2007 Utah L. Rev. 421 (2007) (posted with permission)
Lisa R. Pruitt, Rural Rhetoric, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 159 (2006) (posted with permission)
C. Collaboration
David La Piana, Real Collaboration: A Guide for Grantmakers (January 2001) (posted with permission)
James A. Richardson, Jr. and Jonathan K. London, Strategies and Lessons for Reducing Persistent Rural Poverty: A Social-Justice Approach to Funding Rural Community Transformation, Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring 2007) (posted with permission)
Hon. Sharon S. Townsend, How Judges Can Build Multidisciplinary Collaborations to Benefit Children and Families (2007)
Louise G. Trubeck and Jennifer J. Farnham, Social Justice Collaboratives: Multidisciplinary Practices for People, 7 Clinical L. Rev. 227 (2000) (posted with permission)
Some Helpful Websites
National Rural Funders Collaborative (has information on many foundations involved in rural issues)
Rural Justice Institute of Alfred University (collaborative enterprise with the university and local agencies and schools whose aim is increasing current services and developing new initiatives to enhance the lives of troubled youths and their families)
Rural Policy Research Institute (collaboration of three midwestern universities to provide unbiased analysis and information on the challenges, needs and opportunities facing rural America)
Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation (builds the capacities of resident-led community development corps., making the resource and policy environment more supportive of rural CDC’s and their work)
The Upstate Institute (creates links between Colgate University and the regional community to engage the university and community in research and a reciprocal transfer of knowledge that will enhance the economy, cultural and social capacity of the area)
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