Families experiencing poverty are inadequately supported by our justice system, which is severely under-resourced and inherently complex. Nearly 9 out of 10 families do not get the legal help they need. These unaddressed legal issues act as barriers to housing, health, and economic stability. As a result, many people do not access existing legal protections and trust in the legal system is low. The Legal First Aid Training Program works to change this by supporting community partners to act as navigators who help to identify families’ legal issues, surface unmet legal needs, and access legal protections.

 

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The Legal First Aid Training Program trains client-facing staff in our Legal First Aid curriculum, builds legal navigation skills, and provides ongoing direct legal support via remote legal consultations and access to key tools and resources.

Legal First Aid trained navigators:

  • Identify legal issues
  • Access legal protections
  • Provide justice-related support.

If you are interested in setting up navigator programs in your community, Legal Link also offers training and technical assistance. Please contact us for more information.

Impact

We capture navigators’ legal capability before and after the Legal First Aid training course, and offer follow-up support to our network of trained navigators through monthly newsletters and individual remote consultations.

Increased ability to identify legal issues that clients face

66%

Increased ability to connect clients to legal resources + referrals

82%

Increased ability to provide legal navigation support to clients

81%

Partnership

Legal Link partners with over 50 leading California Bay Area community-based organizations that are deeply integrated into, and trusted by, the communities they serve. Our work furthers the goals of our partner organizations, creates a pipeline of non-lawyer advocates with knowledge of the legal system, and fills a critical access to justice gap.

Navigator testimonials

We value the feedback from our network of community partners!
I have had multiple experiences with the civil legal system and was unaware of the resources available to me…I’ll be taking the training with me in my pocket everywhere.

Legal First Aid Trained Navigator

This training was really helpful in building an understanding of different legal issues that come up and using easy to navigate resources….This information seems basic now that I have finished the training but prior to this week I felt lost. This will greatly improve the types of support I can offer my clients.

Legal First Aid Trained Navigator

After Legal Link’s full day training, our staff reported a significant increase in their ability to identify and navigate their patients’ legal issues, which is vital to addressing social determinants of health.

Merrill Buice, Director of Health Care Coverage & Access, San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium

Everyone and their mothers’ uncles’ cat sitters’ neighbors’ ex business partners should take this training! It was awesome!

Legal First Aid Trained Navigator

Thank you for this training! It was excellent and SO helpful. I feel much more confident in my ability to help my clients be empowered in legal proceedings or situations.

Legal First Aid Trained Navigator

Wonderful presentation and the presenters were very informative and engaging. I love the website and all the new information I have to share with my clients and colleagues. I’m going to ask that this training be mandatory for my organization because it is so beneficial.

Legal First Aid Trained Navigator