Reaching SRLs During COVID: Outreach Campaigns Leverage Social Media, Ad Spots, and Traditional Print to Ensure SRLs Know Self-Help Support Is Still Available (News 2021)
With in-person support for SRLs limited or halted due to COVID, a significant number of self-help services are continuing to serve the public even when their court might be closed. The challenge in this circumstance becomes how to tell the public that self-help is available when the court says it’s closed. Outreach strategies are particularly critical at a time when more people than ever find themselves in need of legal guidance on COVID related issues ranging from tenants’ rights to unemployment law.
Year published:
2021
Document Author:
News, SRLN
Tool: CA Self-Help Centers' Self-Assessment Tool for Quality Programs (CA Courts 2018)
The California Self-Help Centers’ Self-Assessment Tool for Quality Programs was developed as a strategic and tactical planning template to promote quality Self-Help Center Programs across California. The tool is designed to connect a wide range of initiatives within the Judicial Branch, and to intentionally develop systems to interconnect the larger court system with self-help programs.
The Tool is designed to:
Year published:
2018
Document Author:
California Judicial Council Center for Families Children & the Courts, Superior Court of California, County of Butte SHARP Program
Reports, Evaluations, Best Practices, Surveys
Evaluation
Best Practices
Surveys
Tools for Evaluating Self-Help Programs and Services
Self-Help Centers
Trial Court Self-Help
Starting a Self-Help Center
Best Practices for Self-Help Centers
Managing a Self-Help Center
Linking a Self-Help Center to Other Services
Evaluating a Self-Help Center
Survey: Directory of Court Self-Help Programs (SRLN 2006)
This is the first national directory of self-help centers - court based offices in which litigants can obtain information that helps them with their court cases. This was a project of SRLN when it was hosted with the National Center for State Courts,
Year published:
2006
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: What is a Court Self-Help Center? (Judicial Council of California 2017)
The Judicial Council of California, with support from the Public Welfare Foundation, produced a nine minute video about the San Francisco's Access Center that explains what a self-help center is and how it provides triage and self-help services to self-represented litigants.
What is Self-Help? Video About San Francisco's Access Center can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUmmDUbjik
Year published:
2017
Document Author:
California Judicial Council Center for Families Children & the Courts
News: Alaska Bar Association's Unbundled List Offers Court a Neutral Mechanism for Referrals and SRLs Access to the Limited Scope Help They Need (Alaska Bar Association 2016)
Year published:
2016
Document Author:
Alex Smith Davis