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 agingcolonia 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 agingcommunity in Northern Virginia

Greater Boston Legal Services
197 Friend Street
Boston, MA 02114
The Hidden Elders Project will hire a bi-lingual 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' agingunity 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 website 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 aging(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
PO Box 71254
Marietta, GA 30007-1254
Develop and distribute resource materials about elder abuse to Domestic Violence Shelters. Task Forces and others 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 pro-bono 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 elderlaw issues.

Oregon Legal Services
203 NE St., Ste. A
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Seek out and inform agingimmigrants about the requirements for becoming U.S. citizens and will assist with citizenship applications.