In a partnership with the low-income southwest central area of Durham, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is opening a storefront Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC). The center takes a multifaceted approach to serving the community through various empowerment programs. As one major focus of empowerment efforts, law students from the university will provide free counseling on consumer credit and legal information on fair housing to community residents. Residents will then be encouraged to use this legal aid for public advocacy and economic development in the area.

From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy

Contact:
UNC School of Law
Van Hecke-Wettach Hall,
100 Ridge Road
CB #3380
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
(919) 962-5106