Course provided by The National Judicial College (NJC) to train legal professionals in best practices for managing cases involving self-represented litigants. Registration & course fee required. For more information, please visit  NJC course page.   ...

Executive Summary The Michigan Legal Help Program (MLHP) consists of two components: an interactive statewide website and affiliated Self-Help Centers that provide legal information assistance to individuals representing themselves in simple civil legal m ...

The American Bar Association's Resource Center for Access to Justice Initiatives  chronicles various civil legal aid funding streams including but not limited to legal services, IOLTA, legislative, philanthropic and aother funding sources. Funding Un ...

Funding for SRL services comes from a variety of sources, including: state and local government appropriations; federal funding including  VAWA  for cases involving domestic violence,  Title IV-D funds  for cases involving child support, and a number of o ...

The SRLN Tiers Survey was developed for states to conduct a quick tiered inventory of their court based self-help services. Tier 1 services are asynchronous (one-way), Tier 2 services are synchronous (two-way), and Tier 3 services integrate multiple provi ...

Here are various resources to help test your documents: This article from the  NWT Literacy Council  in Canada tackles what is a plain language audit, who should do a plain language audit, why should you do a plain language audit, and how do you do a plai ...

The following is a list of organizations geared toward technology/IT support in the non-profit and legal aid space. Inclusion does not reflect endorsement. Idealware Idealware, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, provides thoroughly researched, impartial and accessibl ...

Since 2000, when Congress first appropriated special funds for the Technology Initiative Grants (TIG) program, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has been a leader in the development and use of technology to more effectively meet the legal needs of low- ...

Rosie's Place, www.rosiesplace.org, a women's shelter in Boston, conducted a survey in 2015 of social services workers in Massachusetts and found that 1) social workers are providing a very significant amount of legal information to their client ...

National SRL Estimates from srln.org In the United States, civil legal disputes are handled in more than 15,000 courts, in a patchwork of jurisdictions among state, county, municipal authorities. Civil courts handle cases such as divorce, custody, child s ...