Emerging Leaders Workshop: Legal Aid Needs You!
Legal aid programs across the country need vibrant and diverse senior leadership. But what does it take to become a leader in your program? How can you apply your skills as a front-line, community-based attorney in a senior leadership position? Explore the paths to leadership and develop the competencies you will need for these leadership roles with experienced legal services executive directors. Not sure whether you want to take a leadership role? Join our conversations to learn more about why legal services needs a wide array of leaders with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.
This preconference will cover the critical abilities you need to be a senior leader, how to create opportunities to build leadership skills, and how to maintain work-life balance. A vital part of this program will include the creation of ongoing mentoring and support circles aimed at creating a network of emerging leaders and mentors throughout the country.
This program is limited to 20 participants. Register early as presenters will be working to craft the exact curriculum for this program with feedback from participants.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Overview of content: Critical Leadership Skills; Creating Opportunities to Build
Leadership Capabilities; Finding Balance; and Maintaining Connections and Support
Who should attend: Staff attorneys, managing attorneys, deputy directors, anyone interested in finding out more about how to move into senior leadership positions
How to register: Online registration is closed -- registration will be open at the conference.
Cost*: $100 for NLADA members
$125 for non-members
*includes coffee, lunch and refreshments during afternoon break
Emerging Leaders Workshop Agenda
| 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | Introductions and Leadership Interests |
|---|---|
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Critical Leadership Skills |
| 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch and Mentoring Circles |
| 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Creating Opportunities to Build Your Leadership Skills |
| 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. | Fun Activity |
| 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Understanding What Lifts You |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Maintaining Connections and Support |
| 5:00 p.m. | Networking Hour |
NLADA Legal Aid Training Series:
Advancing Your Work Through Federal Funding
Civil legal aid is eligible for millions of federal grant dollars each year. Could your program use help unlocking these funds? Partnering with organizations on federal programs is an effective way to combat the effects of poverty and leverage federal grants to enhance your work.
NLADA is hosting an intensive training for civil legal aid providers on how to successfully apply for and implement non-LSC federal funds. This interactive training will feature representatives from the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (WH-LAIR), federal agencies, and community organizations that partner with legal aid.
The daylong curriculum is focused on both new and traditional federal funding sources, the types of legal aid work these sources support, and overcoming barriers to securing these funds.
Workshop agenda includes discussion and brainstorming on:
- Best practices and strategies for securing federal grants and incorporating a legal aid component into federal programs serving low-income people, such as domestic violence, housing, human trafficking, medical-legal partnership, reentry, veterans, or victims of crime
- Successful methods and important decisions in pursuing and implementing specific grants: who identifies opportunities, who forges partnerships, who writes the proposal, who develops the project and more
- Strategies for developing successful and sustainable partnerships
- Opportunities and challenges around “hot topic” funding priorities to inform future advocacy
- Effectively communicating legal aid’s role in advancing the mission of federal agencies
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
How to register: Online registration is closed -- registration will be open at the conference.
Cost*: $100 for NLADA members
$125 for non-members
*includes breakfast, lunch and afternoon coffee
A copy of the program book and agenda from the previous Federal Funding training is available here.
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