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| Legal Hotline Connection |
June 2009
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Techniques for Targeting Populations
Join us for this free webinar!
With limited
resources, senior legal helplines must work to use their efforts
efficiently. One way to do that is by targeting populations most needy
populations. This webinar will look at the reasons for targeting,
targeting using outreach techniques, targeting by setting priorities,
how senior legal helplines can help the IIIB programs with their
targets efforts, and how to use GIS mapping to better target and to
evaluate effectiveness. The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, June 18, 2009, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT. For more information and additional resources on this timely topic, click here.
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Alabama Elder Law Helpline
Seizing Opportunity from Crisis
The Alabama Senior Law Helpline is a direct outgrowth of the Alabama Disaster Hotline that Legal Services Alabama (LSA)
launched in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Fall of 2005. LSA
received a variety of funds in the wake of the disaster including
monies from Legal Services Corporation and the Alabama Law Foundation.
It also received a grant from AARP Foundation to assist older Katrina
victims. Read more>>
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New Resources on Website
 We have posted several presentations on the legalhotlines.org website that you might find useful:
From the 2009 Equal Justice Conference
Building A Higher Performance Legal Hotline Team, Building a Better Application, Doing More with Less, and Integrating a Legal Hotline.
You can download these useful presentations, here.
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A Blackberry On Each Hip
by David Godfrey
At a recent staff meeting here at the ABA Commission
on Law and Aging, a colleague asked why I had two BlackBerrys. The
answer was simple: I am trying to establish balance between my work
life and my personal life by carrying one on each side. Technology drives my world. I depend on voice mail, e-mail, electronic
calendaring, and electronic document creation and storage. But the
technology that enables me to work from almost anywhere in the world
also causes work to intrude into my personal life. Read More>>
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Hotlines Help Thousands in 2008
In 2008, Senior Legal Hotlines helped 53,108 clients (with 20 hotlines reporting). They assisted with 61,646 cases (with 22 hotlines reporting).
Thanks to all of the hotline staff, both paid and unpaid, that made a difference in the lives of seniors throughout the nation.
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What a Difference A Hotline Makes
Stories from the Frontline
The [Maryland Senior Legal]Helpline was contacted by an Iranian Jewish senior who was ostracized by her family and the local Jewish community. She had so antagonized one of her sons that he resorted to violence and beat her severely. The lady was living in a shelter on donations from charities and a few out-of-state family members. The Helpline assisted the senior by connecting her with a victim rights attorney who represented her at her son's assault trial. The attorney was instrumental in the son receiving a sentence that restricted his contact with her and also with her husband, who was recognized as a family leader that influenced the attack on her. Last year the Helpline helped her obtain U.S. citizenship and public benefits. She now lives safely alone in the family house.
Keep up the good work!
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Mark Your Calendar!
 - 6/3, 1pm Eastern- AoA will host an interactive teleconference on the program announcement entitled "Model Approaches to Statewide Legal Assistance Systems." For more information, email Valerie Soroka.
- 6/10, 2pm Eastern- Using Bankruptcy to
Help Elders Stay in their Homes, a webinar by the National Consumer Law Center, FREE. For more information or to receive an email invitation to this free webinar, email Jessica Hiemenz.
- 6/17, 2pm Eastern- Effective Health Care
Advance Planning, a webinar by the National Consumer Law Center, FREE. For more information or
to receive an email invitation to this free webinar, email Jessica Hiemenz.
- 6/18, 2pm Eastern-Techniques for Targeting Populations, a webinar hosted by the Center for Elder Rights Advocacy, FREE. For more information or to register, click here.
- 6/19, 11am Pacific- ADVANCED
PPT - MS PowerPoint for Advocates, a webinar by NTAP, only $40. More information is available here.
- 6/24, 11 am Pacific-Developing
Your Own Multimedia Content Series, a webinar by NTAP, FREE. More information is avaiable here.
- 7/8, 11 am Pacific-50
Tech Tips for Tough Financial Times, a webinar by NTAP, FREE. More information is available here.
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This newsletter is produced by the Center for Elder Rights Advocacy, a partner in the National Legal Resource Center. Other partners in this effort to provide support to senior legal programs throughout the nation are National Senior Citizens Law Center ,
National Consumer Law Center , The Center for Social Gerontology , and American Bar Association-Commission on Law and Aging .
For questions, email CERA.
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