2.3: Innovation
Develop and enhance innovative approaches. Other Information:
As evidenced by LSC’s initiation of programs like TIG, LSC promotes innovative means for providing legal assistance to low-income
people. Over the next five years, LSC will continue this promotion in three ways. Strategies Design, implement, and evaluate
innovative means for supporting grantee program development. In order to assist grantees in recruiting and retaining staff,
LSC has implemented a program to assist a limited number of grantee attorneys to pay off educational loans. The LRAP program
will be evaluated and, if it has assisted in the recruitment and retention of legal services staff, LSC will seek to expand
it. Also, in order to develop a diverse corps of future leaders for legal services grantees, LSC began planning in 2005 for
a model program for mentoring emerging leaders among LSC grantees. If the programs are successful, LSC expects to assist grantees
and other organizations to establish more such programs. LSC will continue to identify new potential areas for innovative
programs to support grantee development. Continue emphasis on technology initiatives and develop a strategic vision for
LSC’s technology investments. Since 2000, Technology Initiative Grants have supported the development of new ideas such as
statewide websites, kiosks for public access, and web-based pro se forms. LSC will continue to encourage grantees to use technology
in innovative ways to increase access, to improve service delivery, and to enhance their management and administration. LSC
will work with grantees to evaluate technology investments and to develop a strategic vision for technology development that
will support future funding requests and guide future investment decisions. Work to improve support for hard to serve areas
and populations, e.g., rural areas, migrants, Native Americans, limited English proficiency clients. Programs serving hard-to-serve
populations face difficult challenges in reaching potential clients, in building trust with potential clients, and in being
able to follow through on identified problems. To improve quality and compliance in these programs, LSC will focus attention
on innovative ways to serve such populations and will examine the special needs of programs serving such populations.
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