Legal Link’s training programs support community partners to act as navigators who help to identify legal issues, surface unmet legal needs, and access legal protections. Partners who complete a training course become a part of our navigator network and receive ongoing support through monthly newsletters and access to individual remote consultations with Legal Link attorneys. Learn more and register for an upcoming training opportunities below.

Legal First Aid Trainings

The Legal First Aid™ Training Program trains client-facing staff in our unique curriculum, builds legal navigation skills, and provides ongoing direct legal support via remote legal consultations and access to key tools and resources. Participants who complete the two-part course receive a certification in Legal First Aid.

Legal First Aid trained navigators:

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

 

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Housing Navigation Trainings

Housing issues can quickly escalate into eviction proceedings, displacement, homelessness. Through its Housing Navigator Training, Legal Link, in partnership with the Justice & Diversity Center’s Tenant Advocacy Project, supports community partners to act as navigators for families at risk of experiencing housing insecurity. Learn how to identify key housing legal issues in community-based settings, surface risks for eviction, refer clients to free expert housing attorneys, and keep tenants housed.

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Register

Interested in learning more about legal navigation through our two-part training, developing the skills to support your clients with legal questions, and becoming certified in Legal First Aid? Register below for an upcoming training!

LEGAL FIRST AID - REGISTER HERE

Interested in learning how to help clients facing housing issues such as rent increases, substandard conditions, and security deposit returns? Register below for an upcoming training!

HOUSING NAVIGATION - REGISTER HERE

Impact

We capture navigators’ legal capability before and after the Legal First Aid training course. Legal capability is an emerging concept that refers to the knowledge, skills and personal attitudes and characteristics that a person needs to deal effectively with the law – including mobilization to resolve legal problems, obtain relevant advice, and achieve better outcomes.

Increased legal capability assessment

95%

Increased ability to identify legal issues that clients face

74%

Increased ability to connect clients to legal resources + referrals

84%

Increased ability to provide legal navigation support to clients

80%

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

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