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2001 Grantees

Partnerships in Law and Aging Program

Co-sponsored by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Endowment and the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging
Administered by the American Bar Association ABA Commission on Law and Aging

 

2001 Grantees

Riverside County Department of Community Action Dispute Resolution Center
Riverside, California

  • Seniors Community Outreach, Recruitment and Training Program for Riverside County (Seniors CORT)
  • Expand awareness of and knowledge about dispute resolution throughout 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

  • Homebound agingOutreach 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, agingpopulation 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

  • 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

  • Neighborhood Wills Clinic Outreach Project
  • Provide information about and drafting of wills for agingpeople 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

  • 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 & 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

  • Web Page and Elder Service Provider Education
  • Develop a Senior Citizens Law Project web page and subsequent legal 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

  • 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.

The Urban Justice Center
New York, New York

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

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