LIHUE The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii is conducting statewide legal training, including on Kauai, for community leaders to serve as Community Navigators.
LIHUE — The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii is conducting statewide legal training, including on Kauai, for community leaders to serve as Community Navigators.
The Community Navigator project is a part of Hawaii’s Justice For All initiative to help individuals overcome barriers to accessing legal help because of their ethnicity, culture, language, income, age or geography.
Community leaders will be trained to provide accurate referrals and relevant legal information to better assist those that naturally come to them for help.
In partnership with the Hawaii Access to Justice Commission’s Justice for All Task Force and the Hawaii State Judiciary, Legal Aid will complete at least eight statewide trainings to create a network of Community Navigators.
Over 50 participants on Oahu, Maui, Kona, Molokai and Lanai have completed the training. On Lanai, 10 community members attended training on April 11-12 and shared their insights and passions for helping their tight-knit community. Further trainings are scheduled in May for Kauai, Oahu and Hilo.
I did some volunteer work for Legal Aid which helps those who cannot afford an attorney. It is an excellent organization that does tremendous good will for such limited resources allocated to its budget. If anything, lawmakers should make it mandatory for large institutions to allocate a small percentage of their profits to fund Legal Aid.
So…. how are the navigators “volunteers,” and when is the exact date of this training on Kauai?