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 Civil Legal Assistance Grant Program FY 2000 NEW YORK AWARD RECIPIENT: AWARD AMOUNT: $281,920 DURATION: 18 months PURPOSE: Through this grant, Farmworker Legal Services of New York will lead a coordinated effort with five agencies to establish and expand services for victims of domestic violence living in migrant labor camps and on dairy farms across ten counties of the Finger Lake region. Farmworker Legal Services of New York will conduct outreach and training and render legal support for permanent housing and employment issues. The Victim Resource Center will assist with counseling, obtaining protective orders, providing representation for divorce, custody, and administrative hearings, and obtaining child support orders. The Finger Lakes Migrant Health Care project will provide medical services and referrals to victims of domestic violence. Rural Opportunities, Inc. will provide emergency shelter, job training, and assist with information dissemination. The BOCES Geneseo Migrant Education Program and the Cornell University Migrant Program will assist with trainings, outreach and referrals. These agencies will also provide additional services including access to healthcare and benefits, transportation, housing, and assistance with tenant issues and education support, as well as any other pertinent legal matters to enhance the safety of the victim.
AWARD AMOUNT: $355,987 DURATION: 18 months PURPOSE: The Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society, in collaboration with Legal Services of Central New York, will continue to provide legal assistance to indigent residents of Onondaga, Oswego, Jefferson, Cayuga and Cortland Counties in the State of New York. The project will continue to work in partnership with a diverse group of domestic violence victim advocacy agencies and other community and justice system organizations to provide and expand direct civil legal services to domestic violence victims. Both legal offices will maintain staff whose time will be dedicated to civil cases for battered women. An additional attorney will be hired to represent elderly victims in the community.
AWARD AMOUNT: $300,000 DURATION: 18 months PURPOSE: Through this grant, Harlem Legal Services (HLS) will lead a coordinated effort to establish and expand services for battered women and to facilitate their use of the civil justice system to enhance their safety through direct representation, advocacy, and outreach. Specifically, this project aims to provide African-American and Latina women residing in central Harlem and northern Manhattan with greater access to community based services and education. The project goals are to reduce the impact of violence on women in the targeted communities, to enhance HLS's capacity to serve Spanish-speaking women residing in Washington Heights and Inwood, and to implement a model program on collaborating for the delivery of legal and supportive services to domestic violence victims.
AWARD AMOUNT: $289,250 DURATION: 18 months PURPOSE: Through this grant, the Legal Aid Society will lead a coordinated effort with seven agencies to establish and expand services for victims of domestic violence living in the five boroughs of New York City. Specifically, the Legal Aid Society will hire five attorneys to partner advocates in each of the boroughs, all of whom will be trained and knowledgeable in issues specific to each community. This project will target low income battered women from highly vulnerable populations: the Latina population in Harlem and the Bronx; battered women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds in Brooklyn; Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn; disabled battered women throughout New York City; the Orthodox Jewish and Russian emigre communities of the Lower East side in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens; and homeless battered women and their children in Staten Island who are unable to find placement in domestic violence shelters.
AWARD AMOUNT: $326,022 DURATION: 18 months PURPOSE: NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund will continue to implement the Battered Women Employed project. The project will continue to address the complex employment needs of battered women by implementing an array of strategies to enforce battered women's employment rights. Project activities include; hiring an outreach assistant; providing direct employment-related legal services to battered women through pilot projects; providing training and technical assistance for domestic violence advocates, multicultural and multilingual organizations, legal services, private attorneys, union members and staff, human resource specialists, law students and employers; and developing and maintaining data to record and track the employment problems of battered women.
AWARD AMOUNT: $300,000 DURATION: 18 months PURPOSE: Through this grant, the Queens Legal Services Corporation's Domestic Violence Law and Advocacy Project (DVLAP) will partner with Sakhi for South Asian Women (Sakhi) and the New York Asian Women's Center (Asian Women's Center) to increase the availability and competency of advocacy services and civil legal assistance for battered Asian women in Queens. The Asian population in Queens is nearly half of the Asian population in New York City. Advocacy staff from Sakhi and the Asian Women's Center and attorneys from DVLAP will cross-train on issues specifically pertaining to Asian battered women and on domestic violence law. Pamphlets covering civil legal issues such as custody, visitation, divorce, and orders of protection will be printed in English with translation into major Asian languages.
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PROGRAMS AWARD RECIPIENT: AWARD AMOUNT: $254,577* PURPOSE: The Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society, in collaboration with Legal Services of Central New York, will provide legal assistance to indigent residents of Onondaga, Oswego, Jefferson, Cayuga, and Cortland Counties. A diverse group of domestic violence victim advocacy agencies and other community and justice system organizations will provide direct civil legal services to domestic violence victims. Both legal offices will hire staff whose time will be dedicated to civil cases for battered women. The project will conduct outreach to identify domestic violence victims and provide services to rural women and other underserved populations. The Legal Aid Society will work with other organizations and agencies to provide information, education, and legal assistance to battered women. The project will also establish a domestic violence component in the Syracuse University College of Law Externship Program. LOCAL CONTACT: * This is a tentative award amount
pending final budget review.
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