Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (March 2022)
In our March 2022 webinar, Rob Wall, Director of Hamilton County Municipal Help Center, spoke about new developments in his court navigator program, demonstrating how programs can and have evolved positively, even during Covid. Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator March 2022 webinar via this link!
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: National Center for State Courts Tiny Chat 79: Social Workers and Self-Help (NCSC 2022)
In this Tiny Chat hosted by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Robby Southers, of the Franklin County Ohio Municipal Court Self-Help Resource Center, explains how his court uses social workers as navigators in its self help offerings. Watch it here, NCSC Tiny Chat 79: Social Workers and Self-Help.
Year published:
2022
Document Author:
National Center for State Courts (NCSC)
SRLN 2021 Forms Competition
A giant congratulations to our SRLN 2021 Forms Competition Winners!
Automated Forms Category: UMKC School of Law, Bloch Law Library
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (February 2021)
In our February 2021 webinar, Robby Southers, Managing Attorney for the Franklin County Municipal Court Self-Help Resource Center, offered lessons learned from his own experience in pitching and building navigator programs there in Ohio.
Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator February 2021 webinar via this link!
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: Navigator Programs' Remote Services (McClymont 2021)
In light of court closures and other operational disruptions occasioned by COVID 19, many court-based nonlawyer navigator programs around the country which had previously provided only in person services to help self-represented litigants (SRLs) in their basic civil legal matters have incorporated, in whole or in part, virtual or remote services. Many now provide both in person and remote services.
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
SRLN
Article: Handle with CARES: Court Uses Federal Funds to Expand Community Support (CNO, Sukosd 2020)
This Court New Ohio article, Handle with CARES: Court Uses Federal Funds to Expand Community Support, describes how new funding helps support the use of social workers as nonlawyer navigators in the Franklin County Municipal Court Self-Help Resource Center.
Year published:
2020
Document Author:
Csaba Sukosd
Resource: SRLN Navigator Working Group Webinar (November 2019)
In our November webinar, we heard from two navigator program leaders, Rob Wall of Ohio and Lisa Porter of Arizona, who described features and operations of their respective programs. Watch the recording of the SRLN Naviagor November 2019 webinar via this link!
Year published:
2019
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: Legal Information vs. Legal Advice - Examples
Here is a compilation of examples of documents which programs have used to provide guidance as court staff or navigators offer assistance. These materials include samples from programs described in the nonlawyer navigator study as well as examples from additional states which have specific guidelines. The compilation is certainly not an exhaustive list of legal information vs.
Year published:
2020
Resource: Ohio - Hamilton County Municipal Court Self-Help Center - 6 Month Report (2018)
This is a 6 month report of Ohio's Hamilton County Municipal Court Self-Help Center in 2018.
The full 6 month report is attached.
Year published:
2018
Document Author:
Hamilton County Municipal Court Self-Help Center
Resource: Sample Materials - Intake Forms and Data Sheets
Here is a compilation of examples of intake forms and data sheets garnered from some of the programs studied and described in the nonlawyer navigator report. Please note, these documents are only samples provided by program leaders, some of which may not be current.