New Training for our Immigration Legal Services Team Now Underway
April 2, 2025
At Canal Alliance, we strive to support our employees in their daily work to address the complex issues of poverty and migration, which requires constant learning and adaptation. Because the ecosystem in which we work is both challenging and ever changing, at Canal Alliance we prioritize professional development. Ongoing learning ensures our team can bring efficiency and ingenuity to our approach, enables us to implement programs more effectively, and to find innovative solutions to social challenges.
Our Immigration Legal Services team (ILS) team plays a vital role in helping immigrants and their families navigate complex legal processes. The ILS team also leads our efforts to educate our staff, partners, clients, supporters, and community about the rights of immigrants, and the roles we can all play to support immigrants in this uncertain time.
Recently, Canal Alliance was awarded a $25,000 grant from Tipping Point Community which will enable our staff to take part in training provided by Legal Link, which specializes in teaching community justice workers legal services navigation skills, so they can help clients identify and connect with needed legal resources. They will provide customized legal training for up to 50 staff members, including the entire Immigration Legal Services team and select staff from our other programs.
The Tipping Point Community award also supports the participation of four Canal Alliance staff in Legal Link’s Community Justice Workers’ Ambassador Program. Legal Link’s Ambassador Program allows community partners to learn more about legal services navigation, while also receiving professional development and training opportunities. With poverty reduction as their goal, Legal Link strives to make the law transparent and accessible, while empowering communities to know and access legal protections through unique Legal First Aid curriculum and web-based tools.
We’re grateful to Tipping Point Community for our ongoing partnership. Thank you for supporting our staff in doing our important work in the most effective and innovative way possible.
