With the funding, Alaska Legal Services Corp. hopes to train community justice workers in rural Alaska on more complex legal tasks.
The group has been training nonlawyers, called “community justice workers,” to represent Alaskans in court for some lower level legal issues. Last year, Alaska’s Supreme Courtthat allows the practice, a decision that drew the support of the state’s bar association.
“We have over 300 community justice workers who have signed up to take our training courses and to be supervised and are ready to help address this unmet need,” she said. ALSC modeled the project on a partnership with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s community health aide program, which places health aides in remote communities. The organization piggybacked on that strategy andWith oversight from attorneys, Nelson said the community justice workers have already helped hundreds of Alaskans get access to justice.
Alaska Legal Services Corp. is working with the University of Minnesota Medical School, the American Bar Foundation Access to Justice Research Initiative and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.
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