We not only provide legal information, advice, and advocacy for seniors, but we do vital outreach and preventive legal workshops to help seniors know when it’s time to call our hotline for help. In addition to providing 1,184 hours of legal services to 725 individual seniors in FY08 we also published the 10th Edition of our purple book of legal questions answered for seniors, both in paper and on our website www.seniorlegalaid.org, and published timely aging and law news on our blawg at www.seniorlegalaid.blogspot.com.
Category: Annual Reports
FY2006 Annual Report
What good is a legal right if you don’t know about it? For many senior West Virginians legal mythology can lead to a choice that is financially or personally devastating. Still more seniors could be protected by exercising legal rights that they don’t even know they have. This is why our senior legal hotline makes sense for West Virginia. We not only provide legal information, advice, and advocacy for seniors, but we do vital outreach and preventive legal workshops to help seniors know when it’s time to call our hotline for help. This year we delivered 1990 hours of high-quality legal services to 893 needy seniors across all 55 counties of West Virginia…
FY2005 Annual Report
Every senior citizen deserves a decent place to live, access to quality healthcare, and income adequate to preserve his or her dignity and autonomy. In a society built on a legal framework, lawyers are necessary to ensure these rights for seniors. Providing these essential services is our mission, and we are proud of how we fulfilled that mission in FY05. We delivered 2065 hours of high-quality legal services to 760 needy seniors across all 55 counties of West Virginia.