SAFER Case Navigators and Volunteers Training

HLPS & EPIC's joint Clinic SAFER will be holding its first training on 9/27 from 1-2:30 PM in Furman Hall 210 Hybrid (ZOOM LINK: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96728420267)  SAFER serves Harm reduction organizations with basic case management and direct service. 

Five Reasons to be a Case Navigator with SAFER:

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2. Volunteering with SAFER  is an opportunity to serve the local metropolitan community while gaining legal skills in interviewing, forensic notetaking, conflict management, cultural humility, advocacy, and networking.
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4. Volunteers will gain practical experience in navigating, researching, appealing, and opining on benefits hearings, social services referrals, and legal services intake.
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6. Members will learn about Harm Reduction, Housing, Mental Health, Discrimination, Health Justice, and Benefits law while supporting the local marginalized populations through direct service.
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8. Members will also get an opportunity to learn about LegalHacking, a philosophy of innovating legal service provision through technology and platforms such as Airtable, Zapier, and Jotforms. Volunteering for either organization confers skills and a community, but is considered a light lift. 
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10. Network with a progressive legal and activist community and get pizza. 

RSVP Here for a refund on lunch: https://forms.gle/2PhXJ3SbgcMf53K88

SAFER / HLPS is also looking for a Clinic Coordinator In-Training.

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• In addition to volunteering two hours, one Friday evening per month Clinic Coordinators will manage attendance for volunteer sessions and shape the introduction of new host sites.
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• Clinic Coordinators In-Training will be supported by the outgoing E-Board for the fall semester
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• Email safer.nyu@gmail.com if interested.

Email (eo2124@nyu.edu or kmb9548@nyu.edu) with any questions! 

SAFER is a student clinic of the Health Law and Policy Society (HLPS) at NYU School of law that seeks to align legal practice with the values and traditions of harm reduction. We work on-site at local harm reduction organizations, like the Washington Heights CORNER Project and VOCAL-NY to connect drug users, sex workers, and the justice-impacted to an array of legal services and training. We organize, educate, and advocate to reduce the harms of unregulated capitalism and policing. 

In Affiliation with REACH, REACH is the law school’s primary student organization dedicated to directly serving the local homeless community and raising the profile of poverty law issues within the law school.

A project of EPIC, Ending the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), formerly the "Prison Reform and Education Project,"* works to organize opportunities for NYU Law students to engage in programming that works with and for justice-impacted communities. 

The clinical project of HLPS, Health Law and Policy Society strives to promote discussion of issues of health law and policy at NYU School of Law and at NYU in general, build a sense of community among students interested in health law and policy, and facilitate networking and career advancement of NYU students in the fields of health law and health policy.