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LAKESHORE LEGAL AID, CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI.
Project partners will conduct culturally competent and linguistically accessible outreach and community legal education, and provide direct advocacy for limited English proficiency, undocumented and under-documented senior victims of abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
Partners: Safe Horizons
ELDERSERVE, INC, LOUISVILLE, KY.
Project partners will collaborate to allow homebound and medically fragile seniors to take out emergency protective orders from their homes via speakerphone and fax connections to the judge, avoiding the necessity of personal courtroom appearances.
Partners: Jefferson County Circuit Court Clerk; Adult Protective Services; Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
EQUIP FOR EQUALITY, CHICAGO, IL.
Project will develop self-advocacy and disability rights fact sheets and other materials for seniors with disabilities, reach out to Chicago-area agencies serving seniors, conduct a minimum of seven seminars for seniors on disability rights and advocacy strategies, and promote increased provision of legal advocacy services to seniors with disabilities.
Partners: Illinois Department on Aging
COMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER, INC. CAMBRIDGE, MA.
Project will help elders and their families prevent and resolve conflict through mediation – including outreach and skill-building workshops for service providers; establishment of a referral network; and provision of mediation services.
Partners: Greater Boston Legal Services/Somerville Legal Services Office; Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services; Central Boston Elder Services
LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NY (MONROE COUNTY), GENEVA, NY.
Joint Medical-Legal Conference on Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Project will conduct a medical –legal conference focused on a new advance directive, MOLST, being piloted in two counties, and will train leaders in the health care and legal communities who, in turn, will educate providers in the broader health care community in hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Partners: Excellus BlueCross BlueShield; Monroe County Bar Association; Monroe County Medical Society
MONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION, MT.
Project will create automated templates of common legal forms and interactive questionnaire for use by low income Montana seniors.
Partners: Montana State Bar, Elderly Assistance Committee
TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID, INC., WESTLACO, TX.
Project will raise awareness, understanding, and access to the legal rights and remedies that protect elders through both targeted education and outreach directly to audiences of elders and by building expanded networks among elder-serving organizations.
Partners: Family Eldercare; ADAPT; Austin Resource Center for Independent Living
PACE WOMEN’S JUSTICE CENTER, WHITE PLAINS NY.
Partners will create a telephone hotline to assist grandparents and older caregivers with various governmental systems in order to receive the benefits and support they need to care for the children in their care.
Partners: Grantparent's Coalition; Family Services Society of Yonkers
NORTHWESTERN LEGAL SERVICES, ERIE, PA.
Project will create a community legal education and outreach initiative on issues confronting older residents in Erie County, PA. Through development of a series of free workshops on topics such as advance directives, retirement benefits, nursing homes, and consumer fraud targeting the elderly; and production of television programs on civil legal topics confronting older individuals for broadcast on the local community access television station.
Partners: Greater Erie Community Action Committee
MFY LEGAL SERVICES, NY.
Project will train neighborhood based social
service staff to educate low-income seniors on avoiding debt, identity theft and financial schemes so they can live with dignity and autonomy.
Partners: Project Home
LEGAL SERVICES OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., MIAMI, FL.
Land Loss Prevention Project
Address trend of low-income African Americans losing title to real property due to intestate succession (heir property) through preventive education on need to develop estate plans, plus free legal assistance in drafting wills and related planning documents.
Partners: South Miami-Kendall Bar Association
LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VI.
Pressure Ulcer Reduction Initiative
Educational seminars on quality of care including pressure ulcer reduction, for long-term care facility staff, family members of residents, and legal and medical professionals, plus follow-up and legal assistance as needed.
Partners: Long Term Care Ombudsman; University of Virginia expert
IDAHO LEGAL AID SERVICES, BOISE, ID.
Idaho Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Community Presentations
Statewide community education for grandparents raising grandchildren on kinship care legal issues, plus access to community and legal resources.
Partners: Idaho Commission on Aging, Volunteer Lawyer Program, AARP, University of Idaho College of Law, Idaho KinCare Coalition, Aging Services of North Idaho, Treasure Valley Grandparents as Parents, CCOA KinCare Program, Eastern Idaho Special Services AAA VI, Ada County Probate Court Guardianship, Southwest AAA III, Southeast AAA V, Community Action Partnership, Sisson and Sisson (law firm)
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY, INC., WILMINGTON, DE.
Manufactured Housing Homeowners Reduced-Fee Attorney Panel
Educate low-income elderly manufactured housing owners about tenant rights, and develop reduced fee legal panel to assist tenants with eviction or other tenant issues.
Partners: Legal Services Corporation of Delaware; Delaware Manufactured Homeowners Association, Delaware Volunteer Legal Services
LAW FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY, SAN JOSE, CA.
Senior Housing Outreach and Advocacy Project
Increase senior recognition of discrimination, audit senior housing for fair housing compliance, advocate for reform where non-compliance, provide free legal assistance.
Partners: AARP state office, Project Sentinel (fair housing organization)
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM SAVANNAH REGIONAL OFFICE, SAVANNAH, GA.
Hospice Pro Bono Project
Recruit and train pro bono attorneys to assist elderly terminally ill individuals facing end-of-life decisions with wills, advance directives, estates and more.
Partners: Hospice of Savannah, Volunteer Lawyer Project, Savannah Bar Association
MFY LEGAL SERVICES, INC., NEW YORK, NY.
Aging in Place: Ask the Attorney Project
Help Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) residents remain in their homes and maintain independence by educating them on key legal issues and training NORC social service staff to better address resident legal needs.
Partners: Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center; Morningside Retirement and Health Services, Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center; Ravenswood R.I.S.E., Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program Self Help Community Services
LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS, OAKLAND, CA.
Domestic Violence Against Women of New Immigrant Senior Populations
Outreach and services including legal services to older women in Chinese and South Asian communities who are or who believe they may become domestic violence victims.
Partners: Family Bridges; Maitri; Shelter Against Violent Environments (SAVE)
SENIORLAW CENTER, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Lawyering Together to Keep Elders S.A.F.E. (Stop Abuse & Financial Exploitation)
Combine energies of experienced elder rights advocates and public interest attorneys, private practitioners, law students and infrastructures of law firms and law schools to serve victims of elder abuse and create next generation of pro bono elder advocates.
Partners: Villanova University School of Law; Schnader Harris Segal & Lewis law firm
COLORADO BAR ASSOCIATION, DENVER, CO.
Colorado Network to End Financial Exploitation of the Elderly
Create network of professionals to develop multidisciplinary, multifaceted prevention and intervention strategies and protocols to reduce financial exploitation of elderly by family and associates.
Partners: AARP Elder Watch, Legal Center (long term care ombudsman and the legal services developer), University of Denver Elder Law Institute, Benefit Payee Services
LAW FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY, FAIR HOUSING LAW PROJECT
111 West Saint John Street, Suite 315
San Jose, CA 95113
Fair Lending Outreach for Elders
Enhance elder awareness of predatory lending; educate elder service providers; improve victim access to legal system; and provide results to serve as a catalyst for development of resources and replication in other geographic areas.
Partners: Senior Adults Legal Assistance; Dept. of Housing, City of San Jose; AARP State Office.
GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES
197 Friend Street
Boston MA 02114
The LGBT Elder Legal Rights Initiative
Address unique legal issues faced by low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) senior citizens by providing tools to address significant legal issues that will arise as a result of the historic ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court giving same sex couples the right to marry, and helping to address myriad of other legal problems faced by unmarried LGBT seniors.
Partners: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Aging Project; ETHOS.
COUNCIL OF SENIOR CENTERS AND SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY
49 West 45th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Legal Training Clinics for Seniors and Senior Providers
In partnership with private elder law firm, train case managers in NYC on details of Medicaid home care eligibility by developing materials and conducting training programs for case management staff.
Partners: Freedman and Fish, LLP
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST
3600 Main Street
Vancouver, WA 98663
Hispanic Outreach on Law and Aging Project (HOLA)
Spanish-language seminars and written materials on law-related topics for older persons, with seminars to be broadcast on local cable access television station.
Partners: Spanish language media, aging services, legal services, police, housing authority.
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA, INC.
216 West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Help for the Elderly Law Project (HELP)
Partner with local law firm and law school clinic to prepare wills, powers of attorney and advance directives for low-income seniors.
Partners: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC; The Elder Law Clinic; Senior Services; Senior Financial Care; The Community Partnership for the End of Life Care.
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
2150 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Improving Care for Unbefriended Elderly in San Francisco County
Work with medical, legal and social service communities to develop a bioethics committee and explore alternatives other than guardianship for making medical decisions on behalf of unbefriended elders – those with diminished capacity but no family or friends to help them.
Partners: The San Francisco Consortium for Elder Abuse Prevention; the Ombudsman Program of San Francisco; Legal Assistance to the Elderly; Laguna Honda Hospital (a 1200-bed public nursing home).
NORTH MISSISSIPPI RURAL LEGAL SERVICES
P.O. Box 767
Oxford, MS 38665
Health Care Resource Manual Project
Develop Health Care Resource Manual describing coverage, application and contact information, eligibility requirements, and appeal rights, for Medicare, Medicaid, Medigap, private health insurance, prescription drug assistance programs, and other sources of health assistance.
Partners: University of Mississippi Civil Legal Clinic; Dept of Human Services Div. of Aging and Adult Services; Three Rivers Area Agency on Aging.
CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND ELDER LAW
710 N. Lake Shore Drive, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
Anti-Predatory Lending Task Force Program Implementation
Develop materials to implement recommendations of a citywide Anti-Predatory Lending Task Force, to educate potential victims; create a voluntary compliance program for lenders so that borrowers know where to safely borrow; and create a citywide policy to combat predatory lending.
Partners: Chicago Department on Aging
ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY
151 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30303
Mobile Law Units Project
Expand services of new Mobile Law Unit by recruiting and training Asian Pacific American Bar Association members to provide pro bono outreach and legal services to seniors with language and mobility barriers in appropriate Asian languages.
Partners: Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc; Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
SHREVEPORT BAR ASSOCIATION PRO BONO PROJECT
401 Market Street, Suite 950
Shreveport, LA 71104
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Legal Assistance Program
Provide grandparents raising grandchildren with pro bono legal advice/representation in guardianship, custody, adoption and related matters. Draft guide to basic legal information and resources.
Partners: North Louisiana Legal Services; Caddo Juvenile Court; Caddo Council on Aging; Governor's Office on Elderly Affairs.
CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES, INC.
62 Washington Street
Middletown, CT 06457
Project Director: Kevin Brophy
Contact: Mimi Peck-Llewellyn, Legal Services Developer, Connecticut Dept. of Social Services,
25 Sigourney Street, Hartford, CT 06106 Regional Kinship Care Legal Issues Seminars for Professionals
Convene quarterly educational seminars on kinship care legal issues in four regions of state for attorneys, social workers, court and state agency personnel; distribute informational materials. Seminars hosted by regional area agency on aging and located at institution of higher education.
Partners: Kinship Care Legal Issues Task Force; area agencies on aging; Medical Legal Partnership Project of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center; Greater Hartford Legal Aid; Probate Courts; Connecticut Bar Association Children’s Law Section.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER OF YAKIMA AND KITTITAS COUNTIES
1106 B. West Lincoln Avenue
Yakima, WA 98902
Project Director: Bev Goodman
Contact : same
Senior Mediation Program
Use faciliative mediation to assist seniors in rural, culturally diverse area with disputes
related to landlord/tenant, neighborhood, caregiver, etc.
Partners: Office of Aging and Long-Term Care, Family Caregiver Program and Information and Assistance.
MIDWEST BIOETHICS CENTER
1021-1025 Jefferson Street
Kansas City, MO 64105-1329
Project Director: Don Reynolds
Contact: same
Kansas City Regional Long-Term Care Ethics Committee
Recruit, organize, train and make available to all long-term care providers in seven counties in Kansas and Missouri that comprise greater Kansas City, a model multidisciplinary ethics committee to address end-of-life issues of seriously ill and dying residents.
Partners: Kansas City Regional Long-Term Care Consortium, Missouri Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; LIFE Project of Kansas.
VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
35-37 Court Street, PO Box 100
Montpelier Vermont 05601-0100
Project Director: Kevin Ryan
Contact: Brian Sawyer, Vermont Legal Aid, 56 Main St., Ste. 301, Springfield, VT 05156
Taking Control to Plan for Future Financial Decisions
Create booklet and outreach forums to educate seniors, professionals and other consumers about the impact of new state laws that protect older persons from financial abuse and improve financial decision-making.
Partners: Vermont Legal Aid, AARP, Attorney General’s Office, Dept. of Aging and Disabilities, Community of Vermont Elders; Alzheimer’s Associaiton of Vermont and New Hampshire.
PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES, INC.
975 N. Main Street
Rockford, IL 61103
Project Director: David Wolowitz
Contact: Gail Walsh
Elder Law Education Initiative
Provide educational programs targeted to private attorneys to encourage increased pro bono services to seniors, for social service providers to faciliate early identification of legal issues for elderly, and for senior citizens to prevent legal problems caused by high medical costs and predatory lending practices.
Partners: Illinois State Bar Association Elder Law Committee.
INSTITUTE ON AGING - CONSORTIUM FOR ELDER ABUSE PREVENTION
3330 Geary Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94118
Project Director: Mary Twomey
Contact: same
Predatory Lending Prevention Collaboration
Use pro bono attys to provide advice and consultant to low- income seniors at three daylong legal clinics; create consumer education materials; train social service professionals.
Partners: Bar Association of San Francisco Volnunteer Legal Services Program; Department of Aging Adult Protective Services and Senior Information and Referral; Consortium for Elder Abuse Prevention.
SENIORLAW CENTER
100 South Broad St., Ste. 1810
Philadelphia, PA 19110
Project Director: Karen C. Buck
Contact: same Pro Bono Internet Matching Project for Vulnerable Elders
Use internet technology to provide much-needed legal services and education to poor elders by matching clients with interested volunteers through listserve postings of pro bono opportunities, on-line volunteer registration and email communications.
Partners: Philadelphia Bar Association Section on Probate and Trust Law Public Servie Committee; area law firms.
NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY COMMITTEE, UTAH STATE BAR
Utah Law & Justice Center
645 South 200 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Project Director: Mary Jane Ciccarello
Contact: same
Senior Law Help
Pro bono program to train volunteer lawyers on elder law basics and aging network resources; conduct legal consultations with seniors at senior centers and senior housing units; publish in hard copy and on the internet an elder law manual for advocates and consumers.
Partners: Utah State Bar; Salt Lake County Aging Services; University of Utah Quinney Law School Pro Bono Initiative.
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE
PO Box 778
Portsmouth, NH 03802-0778
Project Director: Judith Jones
Contact: same
Long Term Care Education
Trainings and educational material specifically targeted to increase statewide awareness about the legal rights of individuals receiving long term care and those making long term care choices.
Partners: New Hampshire Bar Association; State of New Hampshire Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program.
End of Life Partnership of Western Pennsylvania, Inc. (Pennsylvania)
Contact: Denise Stahl
"Take Charge of Your Life" Campaign
Educate seniors about end of life care options, importance of discussing preferences with loved ones, and practical aspects of putting one's wishes in documented legalized format.
Partners: Allegheny County Bar Association, Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield, AARP, Penn State Cooperative Group.
Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. (Massachusetts)
Contact: John Ford
Demystifying Medical Guardianships for Massachusetts Elders
Develop guide for use by lay advocates, family members and nursing home administrators on process to secure medicaid reimbursed medical guardianships for Massachusetts Elders.
Partners: Ombudsman, Alzheimer's Association, NAELA Chapter, U. Mass. Boston Institute of Gerontology.
Wyoming Legal Service (Wyoming)
Contact: Janet Millard
Senior Advance Planning and Guardianship Project
Coordinate and improve delivery of legal assistance to low-income seniors in guardianship matters.
Partners: State Bar Association; Ombudsman; Wyoming Guardianship Corp.; WY Dept. of Health and Family Services.
DSC - Community Mediation Center (Virginia)
Contact: Bob Glover
Reaching Higher Ground: A Community Collaboration
Build capacity in older adult community to resolve conflicts and develop an intervention strategy to alert seniors to benefits of mediation.
Partners: Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia; City of Norfolk Dept. of Human Services; Portsmouth Dept. of Social Services; United Way of South Hampton Roads.
Legal Aid of Arkansas/Arkansas Volunteer Lawyers for the Elderly (Arkansas)
Contact: Mona Teague, Catherine Edwards
Promoting Legal Awareness for Older Arkansans
Develop training and information tool for use by local media, churches and other interested parties to enhance consumer recognition of legal problems and resources.
Partners: White River Area Agency on Aging; Blackwood Martin, Cranford, Johson, Robinson & Woods; Ozark Film and Video; The Agency, Inc.; Arkansas State University Department of Journalism; AK Statewide Pro Bono Task Force; AK Dept. of Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services.
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County (California)
Contact: M. Stacey Hawver
Caregiver Legal Assistance Network
Recruit private attorneys to provide legal services to grandparents and other relatives over 60 who are raising minor children.
Partners: San Mateo County Commission on Aging, Edgewood Center for Children and Families, San Mateo County Bar Association.
Western Massachusetts Legal Services, Inc. (Massachusetts)
Contact: Jonathan Lees
Spotlight on Advocacy for Elders Project (SAFE)
Produce two town meeting-style forums on elder legal issues filmed live at the Western Massachusetts Public TV station, to be broadcasted and replayed.
Partners: WGBY Public Television, Area Councils on Aging, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office/Elder Protection Project, Hampden Cty. Bar Association.
Three T's, Inc. (Arizona)
Contact: Claudeen Bates Arthur
Dine Elder Protection Ace Review and Amendments
Collaborate with elders at 5 senior centers on the Navajo National to review and suggest changes to current elder protection laws.
Partners: Navajo Nation Agency on Aging, Navajo Nation Office of the Prosecutor, Navajo Nation Bar Association, Five Navajo Senior Centers.
Marion-Polk Legal Aid Services, Inc. (Oregon)
Contact: Carla Mikkelson
Expanding ELVIS
Recruit volunteer emeritus attorneys to provide community education and direct services to clients at a clinic in Keizer, Oregon.
Partners: Mid-Willamette Valley Senior Services Agency; Marion Cty. Bar Association.
Senior Legal Hotlines/Legal Services of Northern California (California)
Contact: David L. Mandel
Developing Multicultural/Multilingual Capacity to Provide Legal Asisistance to Northern California Seniors
Recruit corps of bilingual translators to assist Senior Legal Hotline in conducting outreach to seniors who do not speak or understand English; educate translators on elder law issues.
Partners: Asian Pacific Community Counseling Center.
Riverside County Dept. of Community Action Dispute Resolution Center
Riverside, California
Contact: Maria Y. Juarez, Deputy Director
Seniors Community Outreach Recruitment and Training Program for Riverside County (Seniors CORT)
Expand awareness of and knowledge about dispute resolution through senior community, and address disputes involving older persons.
Partners: Office on Aging, twelve senior centers, and other entities working with seniors.
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
Contact: Jeanne Philips -Roth, Project Director
Homebound Elderly Outreach Project
Recruit, train, monitor and support volunteer attorneys and clinical law students to provide legal services (primarily wills, powers of attorney, advance directives) to socially and economically needy, homebound, elderly population in St. Louis.
Partners: St. Louis Area Agency on Aging, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Young Lawyers Division and the Elder Law Committee, Greater St. Louis Legal Secretaries Association, St. Louis University School of Law Clinic.
Senior Legal Services Project
San Luis Obispo, California
Contact: Angie King, Project Director
Latino Elders Outreach Project
Target Spanish-speaking elders in rural areas of San Luis Obispo County, to make them aware of services available to them, to explain legal aspects of problems, and to provide legal assistance where needed.
Partners: Title III-B legal services provider, Senior Nutrition Program, Latino Elders Roundtable.
King County Bar Association
Seattle, Washington
Contact: Elizabeth A. Fiattarone
Neighborhood Wills Clinic Outreach Project
Provide information about and drafting of wills for elderly people of modest means in their own neighborhoods.
Partners: Estate planning attorneys, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys chapter, King County Bar Association Foundation, other local bar associations (women and minority), state bar association section on real property and probate, various community-based organizations, Leave-A-Legacy of Western Washington.
Virginia Elder Rights Coalition
Richmond, VA
Contact: Harris Spindle, Gail Shirley
Virginia Elder Rights Education Project
Develop website and Elder Rights Notebook (Virginia-specific handbook of information on elder rights, e.g., elder abuse, guardianship, health and financial affairs management, caregiver issues, tax laws, LTC Ombudsman program, insurance and public benefits, housing, grandparent issues). Train aging and legal professionals and volunteers to present educational programs using the notebook.
Partners: Coalition of 150 affiliates includes Virginia Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Virginia Poverty Law Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work.
New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Manchester, New Hampshire
Contact: Velma McClure, Interim Director, Senior Citizens Project
Web Page and Elder Service Provider Education
Develop a Senior Citizens Law Project web page and subsequent lega l rights training for service providers and elder rights advocates across the state.
Partners: ServiceLink, a network of community services throughout the state.
Dakota Plains Legal Services
Mission, South Dakota
Contact: John Duffy, Equal Justice Fellow
Lakota Elders and Traditional Peacemaker Courts
Train (or retrain) community elders in traditional Lakota roles of peacemaking, arbitration, community leadership and mediation, to enable them to resolve disputes in select areas of law, e.g., family disputes and vandalism; host a traditional law symposium and training in traditional adjudication for tribal elders; establish pilot peacemaker "court."
Partners: Sinte Gleska University, Lakota Studies Department, National Association of Public Interest Law.
Urban Justice Center
New York, New York
Contact: Raymond Brescia, Project Director
Harlem Law and Psychiatric Outreach Project
Law students and other interdisciplinary teams will provide holistic services to patients of Harlem Hospital geriatric psychiatry outpatient unit on legal issues (Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, evictions, guardianships, living wills and estate matters).
Partners: The Urban Justice Center, The Mental Health Project, Columbia Law School Center for Public Interest Law, Harlem Hospital.
Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program
Montgomery, Alabama
Contact: Linda L. Lund, Director
Elder Law Community Legal Education
Develop a model and present community legal education programs on elder law issues for older individuals, and provide follow-up legal counseling on site to participants with incomes at 125% or below the poverty level.
Partners: Alabama State Bar, Legal Services of Montgomery, Legal Services of South Alabama, Legal Services of Huntsville.
Community Legal Aid Services
Akron, Ohio
Contact: Sara E. Strattan, Executive Director
Tips to Avoid Financial Scams
Produce and disseminate videotape and accompanying written material, with a focus on predatory lending, for use by seniors at home and by lawyers conducting community education.
Partners: Community Legal Aid, Area Agency on Aging; Catholic Charities. Status: Video script and taping complete; final video scheduled for completion in mid-October; meeting with social services groups to play next step -- distribution.
West Virginia Senior Legal Aid, Inc.
1988 Listravia Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26505
Cathy McConnell, Executive Director
Develop handbook for professionals on legal capacity standards for decision making as they relate to guardianship, conservatorship, DPA and advance directives.
Partners: LTC Ombudsman, Legal Services, Alzheimer's Association.
Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.
500 E. Lexington St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
Wilhelm H. Joseph, Jr., Executive Director
Provide education and training to small assisted living facilities throughout the state on new Maryland assisted living regulations, to promote quality, affordable, facilities.
Partners: UM School of Law, Maryland Assisted Living Association, Gerontological Nursing Ventures.
Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma, Inc.
217 South Choctaw
Bartlesville, OK 74003
Ralph Huchteman, Managing Attorney
Establish a 2-day per week, five county Elder Law Hotline (800 number); train hotline "facilitator" in elder law issues and intake for more in-depth legal assistance; develop elder law community education materials for Washington County with the county bar association.
Partners: county bar association.
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association
29 Temple Place
Boston, MA 02111
Meg Connolly, Executive Director
Recruit and train pro bono attorneys to provide community legal education and outreach, including written (English and Spanish) consumer informational sessio ns on legal issues of home ownership, and to handle foreclosure cases for low-income elderly homeowners in Greater Boston.
Partners: National Consumer Law Center, bar association, community groups, housing advocates.
Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis
430 First Avenue North, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55401
Paul Lindberg, Development Associate, Laurie Hanson, Managing Attorney
Support volunteer coordinator for senior attorney volunteer project, through which retired attorneys do intake, individual casework, and mediation (and possibly mediation in the future).
Partners: LTC Ombudsman, Kinship Caregivers Association, Youth Law Project.
Multi-Cultural Legal Center
1588 South Major St., Ste. 100
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Sherrie Hayashi, Executive Director
Foster collaboration among community organizations, adult protective services and legal services to target outreach on abuse, neglect and exploitation to elderly Utah residents with language and cultural barriers.
Partners: APS, community organizations, legal services.
Susquehanna Legal Services
329 Market Street
Williamsport, PA 17701
Farida Zaid, Executive Director
Design and implement an elder mediation project in a rural community to increase access to dispute resolution options.
Partners: area agency on aging, community center, mediation center.
Senior Citizen Judicare Project
1101 Market St., 11th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Karen C. Buck, Executive Director
Legal representation, advice, information and referral services to low-income senior Hispanic community at a community clinic; community education and outreach in Spanish at community, family and senior centers; training on legal issues to professionals working with Hispanic elderly.
Partners: senior center, bar association.
Legal Aid Services of Oregon
230 N.E. Second Ave., Ste. A
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Leslea S. Smith, Regional Director
Legal Advice for North Coast Elders (LANCE), a dedicated senior legal phone line for older residents of two rural counties; provide information, advice, brief services including document reviews and letters; offer community education forums, recruit pro bono attorneys to whom cases can be referred.
Partners: area agency on aging, state bar elder law section, state office on aging.
Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake
225 South 200 East, #200
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Kimberly Garvin, Director of Development, Joanna Sagers, Legal Director
Represent alleged incapacitated persons in petitions for appointment of the Office of the Public Guardian.
Partners: Office of the Public Guardian, state bar.
South Texas Project
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido, Inc.
P.O. Box 288
San Juan, TX 78589
Collaborate with community organizations to provide education and legal services to elderly colonia residents. (A colonia is an unincorporated village along the border with Mexico that emerged as a result of the shortage of low-income housing and unregulated development).
Legal Services of Northern Virginia
6400 Arlington Blvd., #640
Falls Church, VA 22042
Create, produce, and print an Assisted Living Guide, which will provide information on long-term care options to the growing elderly community in Northern Virginia.
Greater Boston Legal Services
197 Friend Street
Boston, MA 02114
The Hidden Elders Project will hire a bilingual elder who is a member of the target community to serve as a lay advocate to conduct targeted outreach and education to elders who are in need of assistance, but who are isolated by language, cultural or physical barriers, to help them to gain access to the vital legal services provided by GBLS' Elderly Unity and GBLS Medicare Advocacy Project.
Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups
Elder Law Center
5900 Monona Drive, Ste. 400
Madison, WI 53716
Project will make Wisconsin-specific the ABA's Recommended Guidelines for State Courts Handling Cases Involving Elder Abuse, conduct two regional trainings for judges, law enforcement and others, and organize and conduct two county-specific multi-disciplinary trainings and follow-up planning to develop plans and protocols for consumer and professional education, coordination and case-handling.
Connecticut Legal Services, inc.
872 Main Street
P.O. Box 258
Willimantic, CT 06226-0258
Develop and maintain web site to make comprehensive information regarding elder law, government programs and sources of legal assistance available via the Internet. Promotional activities will include targeted publicity through the senior network, including senior and adult
day care centers, libraries, courts, retirement communities and health care providers.
Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE)
1315 Walnut St., Ste. 1000
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Build a coalition of experts from the aging, advocacy, disability, and legal networks to assist long-term care staff to identify complex ethical issues, to provide tools for analysis, and to make recommendations in order to achieve the best moral outcome for long-term care residents.
Help nursing homes, personal care and assisted living facilities create and train their own multidisciplinary ethics committees, and to create and train a regional volunteer committee to which facilities without their own committee can turn for assistance.
The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii
75-5656 Kuakini Hwy., Ste. 203
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
Develop a pro se uncontested guardianship clinic to be held quarterly on the Island. An attorney and paralegal will lead each clinic, teaching caregivers and family members how to fill out, serve and file the necessary court forms to become a legal guardian for an incompetent
person. Cases will be screened to ensure that potentially contested cases are referred out.
State Bar of Georgia, YLD
Elder Law Committee
P.O. Box 71254
Marietta, GA 30007-1254
Develop and distribute resource materials about elder abuse to Domestic Violence Shelters. Task Forces and other involved in domestic violence. Training, using the materials, at
conferences and workshops.
Orange County Council on Aging
1971 East Fourth St., Ste. 200
Santa Ana, CA 92705-3917
Education to enhance the abilities of professionals to identify, intervene and resolve elder
abuse problems and protect seniors.
Minnesota Legal Services Coalition
46 E. 4th Street, Ste. 726
St. Paul, MN 55101
Minnesota Legal Services Coalition (a state support center, which among other things, coordinates the Seniors Task Force) will collaborate with legal services programs, state bar volunteer lawyers program, Minnesota Justice Foundation (which operates a law student probono
program for the state's three law schools) and others to conduct two statewide trainings; one on advance health care directives under the new Minnesota law adopted in 1998, and the other on Medicare+Choice. The trainings would be used to stimulate more pro-bono involvement of lawyers and law students around elder law issues.
Oregon Legal Services
203 N.E. St., Ste. A
Hillsboro, OR 971124
Seek out and inform elderly immigrants about the requirements for becoming U.S. citizens and will assist with citizenship applications.
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