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III A Effective Workshops
III B Helping Litigants with Mental Health Problems
III C Using Volunteers Effectively
III E From Their First Step into the Courthouse - Making the Courthouse Work More Effectively for Self-Represented Litigants
III F Ethical Issues for Judges in Handling Cases with Self-Represented Litigants
III G Self-Help Assistance: Research Findings and What They Tell Us About Good Practice
IV B Substance Abuse
IV C How to Use Focus Groups to Evaluate Your Services
IV D Reaching Out - Providing Services in the Community - Issues and Successes
IV E Funding - How Other Courts Have Done It

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III A Effective Workshops

• Self-Help Divorce Workshop Series  (Prepared by Michelle Hopkins, Los Angeles Superior Court )
• Free Do Your Own Divorce Workshop Flyer 
• Overview of a Divorce
• Ticket to Divorce Workshop #2
• Income Worksheet
• Ticket to Divorce Class 3
• Worksheet for Income & Expense Declaration 
• Divorce Workshop Property Worksheet

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III B Helping Litigants with Mental Health Problems

• Self-Represented Litigants & Mental Disorders: The Legal System as an Agent of Healing

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III C Using Volunteers Effectively

• Family Law Volunteer - Job Description 
• Handbook for the San Francisco Superior Court - ACCESS Volunteers  (Prepared by the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco )
• Guide for Helping Self-Represented Litigants to Help Themselves - Instruction Manual for Volunteers
• Become an AARP Volunteer  (Prepared by the AARP )
• Letter to AARP  (Prepared by the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco )
• Volunteer Invitation  (Prepared by the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco )
• Volunteer Program Coordinator Job Description  (Prepared by the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco )
• Volunteer Training Agenda  (Prepared by the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco )

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III E From Their First Step into the Courthouse - Making the Courthouse Work More Effectively for Self-Represented Litigants

• Accessibility Checklist for Self-Represented Litigants 
• Court Building Design Considerations for Self-Represented Litigants  (Prepared by the Administrative Office of the Courts, Office of Court Construction and Management)
• Roadmap to Success: Petitioner's Step-by-Step Guide to Completing Your Divorce  (Prepared by Superior Court of Marin County )
• Roadmap to Success: Respondent's Step-by-Step Guide to Completing Your Divorce  (Prepared by Superior Court of Marin County )

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III F Ethical Issues for Judges in Handling Cases with Self-Represented Litigants

• A Review of California Case Law On Judicial Treatment of Self Represented Litigants in the Courtroom 
• Reaching Out or Overreaching - Judicial Ethics and Self-Represented Litigants  (Prepared by the State Justice Institute )
• Ethical Issues for Judges in Handling Cases with Self Represented Litigants  (Prepared by John Greacen and Hon. Louise Bayles-Fightmaster)

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III G Self-Help Assistance: Research Findings and What They Tell Us About Good Practice

• Self-Help Assistance: Research Findings and What They Tell Us About Good Practice

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IV B Substance Abuse

• Substance Abuse: Current Science of Addictions  (Prepared by Darryl S. Inaba and Lynn E. O'Connor)

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IV C How to Use Focus Groups to Evaluate Your Services

• Using Focus Groups in Program Evaluation  (Prepared by James Mensing and Michell Nuñez)

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IV D Reaching Out - Providing Services in the Community - Issues and Successes

• Reaching Out - Providing Services in the Community

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IV E Funding - How Other Courts Have Done It

• Equal Access Partnership Grants
• Sample Funding Memo 
• Prop 10 Facts
• Proposed 2005-2006 Partnership Grants with Program Descriptions 
• Self-Help Assistance: Research Findings and What They Tell Us About Good Practice

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