Using Evidence-based Approaches to Develop Community Justice Worker Training Programs

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This session will discuss best practices in designing training programs for community justice workers that have the ability to scale to meet community demand. It will focus on what the evidence shows us about effectiveness of training programs and why using low-barrier adult education models are needed to achieve scalability.

Participants will understand the evidence tells us about how we need to design community justice worker training programs so that they are effective and have the capacity to scale.
Participants will understand basic principles of low-barrier adult education and how to engage such specialists when designing and building community justice worker training programs.
Participants will learn about the evidence-base re: the civil justice gap and why it requires moving beyond lawyer-only/lawyer -driven solutions.

Nikole Nelson, JD

CEO

Frontline Justice

Nikole Nelson is the founding CEO of Frontline Justice. Prior to joining Frontline Justice Nikole was the Executive Director of Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Alaska’s only statewide provider of free civil aid. During her 25 years in the field, she worked to build community-led, people-centered justice models and to expand the scope of who can provide legal help including a groundbreaking launch of Partnering for Native Health, a Medical-Legal Partnership involving non-lawyer justice workers that won the 2019 World Justice Challenge. She also spearheaded reforming restrictions on unauthorized practice of law for justice workers in Alaska; these reforms were approved in 2022 by both the Alaska Supreme Court and State Bar Board of Governors. Nikole is a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense (SCLAID) and is a member of the Legal Services Corporation’s Rural Justice Task Force.