This two-day training provides a complete overview of how to start and sustain a nonprofit immigration legal services program. It features a manual and curriculum that offers detailed information and suggestions for applying for Board of Immigration Appeals agency recognition and staff accreditation, implementing effective case management systems, fundraising and scores of other pertinent topics related to managing an immigration program.

The training is highly interactive. Participants will leave with a plan to create or improve immigration legal services. Past participants have used information from this training to build or expand their legal immigration capacity.

Who should attend?
The training is suitable for program staff from a wide range of organizations, including established immigration programs, ethnic and immigrant organizations, domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and service providers.

What will you learn?
Participants will learn how to determine which applications to accept and how to adjust fees to obtain the best support for their program. There will be a discussion of case intake and management strategies, avoiding unauthorized practice of law, and strategies for working with the funders and delivering on grant objectives.

Presenters:

Helen Chen, Esq.: Ms. Chen is a Field Support Coordinator in CLINIC's Center for Citizenship and Immigrant Communities in Washington, D.C., where she provides capacity building support and program management consultations to charitable immigration programs in Colorado, New Mexico and many Southeastern states. Ms. Chen is a former staff attorney with Catholic Charities of Boston. She has extensive experience providing immigration services for survivors of domestic violence under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

Jeff Chenoweth: Mr. Chenoweth is a Field Support Coordinator in CLINIC's Center for Citizenship and Immigrant Communities in Washington, D.C., where he assists charitable immigration programs in Northeastern states with capacity building and program management needs. He is the Assistant Director for the Center and supervises five other Field Support Coordinators. He has worked in the field of non-profit immigration services since 1986 and has been on staff at CLINIC since 1997.

Hope Driscoll, Esq.: Field Support Coordinator, CLINIC, Washington, DC, is an attorney with extensive experience in training and program management. Before joining CLINIC, Ms. Driscoll directed a multi-state program that provided pesticide safety education to migrant and seasonal farm workers.

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