IMPACT
No volunteer partner has been more impactful to our project, than Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice. The impact of the center’s work in Dilley is immeasurable. Although I would estimate that Feerick Center volunteers have impacted the case outcomes and lives of over 8,000 asylum-seeking families as of December 2018 and hundreds more since then, the center’s ongoing willingness to be a constant thought partner, visionary, and ally in our work has transformed our project. As a result, the center has positively impacted the lives of every single family we have served on ground. In addition, we partnered with the Feerick Center through the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyer’s Emil Gumpert Award— which we jointly received—to develop the Remote Prep Pilot Project. This effort utilized technology to design and implement an innovative, high-quality model for serving detained women and children through telephonic remote limited-scope services. Already, this model has been utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic and we have been able to replicate it in serving asylum-seekers subject to the Migrant Protection Protocols or “Remain in Mexico” policy. The Remote Prep Pilot Project and the best practices it has generated has already benefited scores of asylum seekers and has the potential for very broad application. For all of this, we are grateful.
Shalyn Fluharty Director, Proyecto Dilley (formerly the Dilley Pro Bono Project)
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