The Equal Access Unit of the California Judicial Branch Center for Families, Children & the Courts, provides materials for courts, court-based self-help programs, and other nonprofit providers of legal self-help services. The Unit provides the followi ...

Thank you everyone for making our first conference such a success. If you attended the conference, the materials remain available through Sched. Sched Available Here How to Join the Conference Slack WHAT:  A two-day in-person national conference for lawye ...

This course, provided by the National Judicial College (NJC) and held in San Diego, CA, on March 7- 10, 2016, is designed for judges who decide on civil and criminal cases involving SRLs and who need information about issues dealing with management of tho ...

Final report from an evaluation of three pilot Family Law Information Centers-- in Los Angeles, Fresno, and Sutter Counties-- which were established by the California Legislature in 1999 as a response to the increasing number of litigants appearing in fam ...

  In April of 2001, the Empirical Research Group of the UCLA School of Law was commissioned by San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services and the County of Los Angeles to "design a system, procedure and framework for evaluating the effectiveness ...

Sonoma County Legal Aid's annual evaluations of the Sonoma County Self Help Access Center (SHAC) are based on data captured from client entry/exit surveys, follow-up interviews, court observation, and court staff interviews. This is the evaluation re ...

This May 2004 Court Executive Development Paper evaluates the Long Beach Family Law Center. The research findings look at the following issues: population identification, court efficiency, customer satisfaction, public, trust and confidence, access to jus ...

Each year ten percent of the California's Equal Access Funds allocation is distributed by the Legal Services Trust Fund Commission as Partnership Grants. This funding is available for joint projects of courts and legal services programs to make legal ...

This is a report, found at  http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/rpt_leg_self_help.pdf, on the implementation of California's Statewide Action Plan for Self-Represented Litigants. It includes detailed financial and collaboration information in response ...

This January 2007 (updated April 2019) benchbook to assist judicial officers in the handling of cases involving self-represented litigants is the first of its kind. This benchguide covers the following topics in addition to providing sample scripts: · Sel ...