In our January 2021 webinar, Grace Spulak from New Mexico discussed the development underway for a new court navigator program in New Mexico and Mary walked us through the Navigator resources on our SRLN Navigators Resource Page. Watch the recording of th ...

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 record ...

In our March 2021 webinar, Sam Scarrow, Media Relations Manager at Voices for Civil Justice, presented on Fundamentals of Advocacy Communications, including objective setting, audience mapping, message development, and tactics including the news media. Th ...

In our April 2021 webinar, Sacha Steinberger and Kate Crowley Richardson of Legal Link presented a model of using navigators working in the community to help people with civil legal needs.  W atch the recording of the SRLN Navigator April 2021 webinar via ...

In our May 2022 webinar, Mary Ferwerda, Suzan Chau, Sylvia Lovely, and Robby Southers described their current experiences and offered tips about seeking planning and operational federal AmeriCorps grants to support their navigator program work. Watch the ...

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 ...

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 ...