1.3: Public Information
More effectively inform the public of what LSC grantees do. Other Information:
If more support is to be generated for legal services for the poor, a much greater awareness of the importance and availability
of legal services is needed. This will be accomplished through two strategies. Strategies Collect and distribute stories
about the meaningful differences made in clients’ lives Legal assistance helps people to improve their lives, from securing
habitable homes to resolving consumer problems to resolving domestic issues to attaining self-sufficiency. Success stories
abound about people who moved forward with their lives when access to justice was provided. Some legal services cases result
in reduced public expenditures, such as when housing issues with landlords are resolved and families remain in housing rather
than becoming homeless, or when child support issues are resolved and financial support is provided by absent parents, or
when obstacles preventing employment are resolved allowing a client to obtain work or to remain working. By working with grantees
on how better to communicate their success stories to their local communities, LSC will achieve greater public awareness of
civil legal services. Continue to identify and publicize needs that are not being met National and statewide studies have
documented that at least 80% of the legal needs of the poor are not being met through current provisions of service by legal
services programs, pro bono assistance, or other forms of legal aid. Helping the public to understand this need is essential
to increasing public support for legal services.
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