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ELCA Outreach Center seeks CDBG support to sustain volunteer legal advice service
Summary
ELCA Outreach Center outlined a long‑running legal advice service that offers 30‑minute consultations with volunteer attorneys; staff said the program is seeing growing demand for family‑law and rental‑rights assistance and requested funding to pay coordination/staff costs (not attorney fees).
Representatives from the ELCA Outreach Center asked the committee to support their legal advice service, which connects low‑income residents to volunteer attorneys for short consultations and document assistance.
Carter Erickson (ELCA) said the organization has operated the service for 14 years and is on pace to handle roughly 275 client consultations this year. ELCA staff reported that…
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