Identify your current stage, goals, strengths, concerns, and immediate barriers.
Family & Community Navigator Institute
EFF Community Navigator Pathway
Help learners organize next steps, find official resources, protect privacy, and connect to appropriate support.
Designed for: Librarians, shelter staff, faith leaders, mentors, counselors, social workers, and community helpers
Your Five-Part Continuity Journey
Explore education, career, credential, and support choices that may fit your life.
Try a realistic, low-risk simulation before making a real-world decision.
Practice responding to a setback with clear questions, documentation, and support.
Leave with a checklist, timeline, scripts, questions, and trustworthy next steps.
Your Learning Modules
- The Community Navigator Role
- Listen Without Assumptions
- Identify a Starting Point
- Organize Questions & Documents
- Find Official Resources
- Support on Shared Computers
- Privacy Boundaries
- Know When to Refer
- Connect Learners to EFF
- Avoid False Promises
- Navigation Simulation
- Build a Community Navigation Plan
Your Completion Product
EFF Community Education Navigator Completion Plan — a private, printable record of your EFF University participation and practical next steps. It is not academic credit or an official institutional record.
EFF University is a free educational simulation, training, and navigation platform presented by Esther Funds Foundation. EFF University is not an accredited college or university and does not award academic degrees, high-school diplomas, college credit, or professional licenses.