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Legal Services Corporation |
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Legal Services Corporation |
The Legal Services Corporation has just completed its second state planning technical assistance initiative. In April 1999, the Corporation provided $150,000 in technical assistance grants to assist 13 states with their state planning efforts. In September 1999, the Corporation made an additional $229,000 available to assist 24 states. The second initiative involves contracts with a number of organizations and consultants to provide assistance to states in the areas of client access, resource development, program and system evaluation, program merger, leadership development, and overall state planning. Approximately $20,000 of these funds are devoted to national technology and training initiatives which will benefit programs in all states. A summary appears below.
| State | Total | Purpose |
| Alabama | $14,467 | To develop a statewide private bar campaign |
| Arizona | $8,235 | For general state planning |
| Arkansas | $4,967 | To develop a funding campaign for the statewide Helpline |
| California | $8,647 | State planning in the Central California Region |
| Colorado | $4,100 | Consolidation of fiscal operations and benefit packages of 3 merging programs |
| Florida | $10,000 | For general state planning |
| Illinois | $2,900 | For general state planning |
| Indiana | $8,847 | For general state planning and merger assistance |
| Kentucky | $10,146 | For general state planning |
| Kentucky | $4,500 | Assessment and recommendations for more integrated client access |
| Louisiana | $14,467 | To develop a statewide private bar campaign |
| Maryland | $10,000 | To further develop a statewide community legal education system |
| Michigan | $8,118 | For general state planning |
| Michigan | $5,000 | To develop a replicable leadership development module |
| Minnesota | $4,000 | To develop a peer review program and system evaluation plan |
| Minnesota | $5,000 | To develop Phase II of Minnesota's statewide technology plan |
| Missouri | $10,000 | For general state planning |
| New Mexico | $2,100 | For general state planning |
| North Dakota | $5,750 | For general state planning |
| Ohio | $10,000 | Coordination of client access and communications systems |
| Oklahoma | $7,500 | To develop a statewide technology plan |
| Pennsylvania | $2,300 | To assist with merger of two programs |
| Tennessee | $10,000 | For general state planning |
| Texas | $9,000 | For general state planning |
| Vermont | $5,000 | For general state planning |
| Virginia | $7,000 | Assessment and recommendations for more integrated client access |
| Washington | $10,000 | Evaluation of statewide access system |
| For all states | $10,000 | To help develop a model pro se web site/kiosk |
| For all states | $1,500 | To develop national paper on technology possibilities for legal services programs |
| For all states | $5,250 | To develop a state technology planning manual |
| For all states | $3,275 | Software modification to allow easy inter-office and inter-program data transfer |
| For all states | $7,000 | Co-sponsorship of national conference on state training coordination |
| Total | $229,069 |