| WELCOME
TO COMMUNITY OUTREACH The ISBA supports many community service programs.
Complimentary law related information and/or volunteer lawyer speakers are provided
as a part of these programs. Below are brief descriptions of a few of these programs.
Call the ISBA (800/266-2581 or 317/639-5465) or click on the links to receive
further information or to become involved. 
| What's
Great About America 
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The Indiana State Bar Association is seeking volunteers to participate in "Ask Me What's Great About America," a program to help educators comply with the federal regulation requiring the development of student programming to celebrate Constitution Day on Monday, September 17.
This is a wonderful opportunity for volunteer attorneys to speak in 8th grade classrooms statewide about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Attorneys who volunteer will be provided presentation materials for a one-hour program. In the past four years, more than 650 attorneys have met with students from all over the state. It is the hope of this Section and your Association that this year’s event will be as big and as successful as in previous years. Help spread the word about “Ask Me What’s Great About America!” We need your help in contacting schools in your local community to get them involved in “Ask Me What’s Great About America.” Please contact your local schools and give them the enclosed school registration form so that they can participate in this wonderful program!
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Project
PEACE http://www.doe.state.in.us/sservices/peace/welcome.html
PEACE (Peaceful Endings through Attorneys, Children and Educators) is a peer mediation
training program sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education, Indiana State
Bar Association and the Office of
the Attorney General. Read more about Project PEACE.
| 2004
Indiana Kids' Election 
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http://www.indianakidselection.org
Teaches students in kindergarten through high school the importance of voting.
Read more about Indiana Kids' Election 2000.
Alcohol
& Automobiles Video
An award-winning presentation designed
for middle and high school students that involves volunteer lawyers and judges
in a live mock sentencing hearing. For more information, contact the ISBA, isbaadmin@inbar.org.
Mock
Trial Competition
Allows teams of high school students to act as
trial lawyers and witnesses to present the plaintiff's and defendant's case in
a mock trial setting. For more information, contact our state coordinator, attorney
Susan Roberts of Stuart & Branigin, skr@stuartlaw.com,
or visit http://www.inmocktrial.org/
(effective summer 2001).
Legal
Stuff (You Should Know!)
A handbook designed for high school
seniors that discusses legal issues facing young adults. Contact the ISBA for
copies, isbaadmin@inbar.org.
Indiana
Program for Law-Related Education
http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/iplre.html
Sponsored by the Indiana State Bar Association and the Indiana Bar Foundation.
Project
Citizen
http://www.civiced.org/project_citizen.html
Encourages middle school students to study community problems and develop proposals
for public policy to improve their communities.
LRE
Summer Institute
http://www.civiced.org/index_institutes_states.html
Offered throughout the United States, for upper elementary, middle and high school
teachers. These institutes are intensive professional development programs designed
to assist teachers in implementing curriculum content, classroom strategies, and
performance assessment relevant to the study of the U.S. Constitution and Bill
of Rights.
Youth
for Justice
http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/yfj.html
Involves young people in law-related education programs that address national
problems, particularly violence by and against our youth.
We
the People ...the Citizen and the Constitution
http://www.civiced.org/wethepeople.html
Teaches students to appreciate the history and principles of the U.S. Constitution,
with local attorneys directly involved with the instruction or as judges for district,
state or national competition.
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