In our January 2022 webinar, our speakers – Marilyn Smith,  Grace Spulak, and Samira Nazem – discussed their emerging innovative initiatives on the critical subject of eviction diversion programming in and around the courts, especially highlighting the ut ...

In our November 2021 webinar, Michele Cotton, Associate Professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies (LEST) at the University of Baltimore, discussed the innovative Court Navigator Project she directs that engages students as navigators, i ...

In our October 2021 webinar, Lisa Zayas, Director, Division of Access to Justice, Office for Justice Initiatives, NYS Unified Court System discussed an exciting new effort underway to create their Virtual Court Navigator Pilot Program.  Watch the recordin ...

In our September 2021 session, we introduced  two new co-chairs, Robby Southers and Stacey Weiler, who have joined Mary McClymont to lead our group.  Mary Ferwerda, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Justice Center, highlighted the court navigator progra ...

In our July 2021 webinar, Danielle Hirsch spoke about a new funding source and Mary McClymont gave an update on AmeriCorps funding.  Lisa Colpoys and Jill Roberts discussed a new information service called Illinois Court Help, recently launched to connect ...

Under the recently passed American Rescue Plan, there is a major new infusion of federal funding for AmeriCorps programs. In our May 2021 webinar session, we were joined by experts to take a deep dive into seeking AmeriCorps funding for court navigator pr ...

SRLN Report (March 2021) Evaluating Library Services to Self-Represented Litigants: A Story of Two Surveys The Law Librarians’ Working Group of the Self-Represented Litigation Network surveyed law libraries in the summer of 2019 about their services, incl ...

In our November 2022 webinar, we were able to hear from Sarah Song, Supervising Senior Program Manager of the Access to Justice Division at the Administrative Office of Illinois Courts about some of the limitations to technology advancements in the courts ...

In our January 2023 webinar, we took another look at virtual services. Shereice Perry and Lisa Colpoys discussed the details behind managing a virtual navigator program. Watch the recording of the SRLN Navigator January 2023 webinar via this link! Court N ...

Both the Bronx Family Court and the Pittsburgh Court were able to significantly increase quality, speed, and capacity by re-engineering procedures, re-arranging physical layout, some paint, and new benches. See Pittsburgh Court Doubles the Number of Self- ...