The Lawyers Empowering People Project
This project evaluates a pilot program which provides a framework to better assist those with disability and to increase the agency of these clients.
Fitzroy Legal Service is developing a service model to improve their support for clients with disability. The Lawyers Empowering People Project (LEPP) involves co-designing and trialling new approaches to legal services to help people feel safe and empowered, make their own decisions and participate more in their legal cases. The Melbourne Disability Institute (MDI), through its Community-Based Research Scheme, contracted the Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE) at The University of Melbourne to evaluate the LEPP in early 2020.
The evaluation has examined how the LEPP project has been developed, including how staff have engaged with the project and the processes of working with people with disability as part of co-designing the service model.
Access the final report here.
Access the plain language summary here.
Research team
Anthea Rutter, Centre for Program Evaluation