Field Protection Models - Community Navigators, Organizers & Attorneys Working Together to Protect Immigrant Communities (Webinar)

  • Organization: CIRI
  • Document Type: Training materials
  • Date Created: Tuesday, June 06, 2017
  • Attachment(s): LINK

This webinar covers effective strategies and practices in coordinating local protection efforts between community navigators (trained community volunteers), organizers, and attorneys. Field and legal service organizations will share ways that community organizations are collaborating with local legal service providers to implement rapid response plans on the ground, including roles, expectations and common challenges.

The panelists are Emily Gelbaum, National Partnership for New Americans; Susan Marks, American Immigration Lawyers Association; Camila Fyler, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition; Kat Khommarath, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, LA; and, Nicholas Katz, CASA.