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34 Clearinghouse Rev. 371 (2000-2001)
Fostering Elder Rights through Innovative Collaborations: A Look at the Partnerships in law and Aging Program

handle is hein.journals/clear34 and id is 381 raw text is: Fostering Elder Rights Through Innovative Collaborations: A Look at the Partnerships in Law and Aging Program By Stephanie Edelstein and Edward D. Spurgeon Publicly and privately funded nonprofit legal services programs continue to strug- gle to meet the legal needs of their older clients, whose problems may be com- pounded by a failure to recognize the existence of a legal issue, by incapacity, by communication and cultural and phys- ical barriers, or by discrimination and vic- timization. Some of these concerns could be avoided through preventive legal edu- cation, others alleviated or resolved at a later stage. However, because of limited resources and growing need, the legal needs of low-income older people can- not always be met by staff programs, the private bar, or traditional delivery sys- tems. Since 1986, the American Bar As- sociation Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly has been fortunate to have been able to administer a minigrant pro- gram, designed to enhance access to the legal system by older people, for bar groups, legal services programs, and aging networks and other not-for-profit organizations. From 1986 through 1996, in con- junction with the ABA Fund for Justice and Education and other American Bar Association entities, the Legal Awareness of Older Americans program awarded 121 ten-month grants of $4,000 to a vari- ety of nonprofit, law-related organiza- tions. Following a two-year hiatus in 1997-98, the association's Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly joined with the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging, and the five individuals who comprise the center's professional advisory board to sponsor the Partnerships in Law and Aging Program, which each year awards up to ten one-year, $7,500 grants.1 The goals of the minigrant program are * enhancing the legal awareness and autonomy of older persons, including those who are poor or otherwise isolat- ed or in great social and economic need due to language, culture, disability, geog- raphy, or lack of education; * improving older persons' access to the legal system by expanding available resources and exploring innovative meth- ods for delivering services, such as tech- nology-based systems, pro se clinics, and the use of volunteers; m encouraging collaboration and com- munication among providers of law-relat- ed services to older persons-public-sec- tor legal services programs, the private The members of the professional advisory board of the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging are B. Lawrence Brennan, Alexander Forger, Robert K. Johnson, Richard E. Kipper, and 0. Wood Moyle II. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2000 1 JOURNAL OF POVERTY LAW AND POLICY Stephanie Edelstein is associate staff director, American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, 740 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202.662.8694; sedel- stein @staffabanet.org. Edward D. Spurgeon is executive direc- tor, Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging, 290 McWhorter Drive, Athens, GA 30606; 801.521.0250; spurgeon @arch- es. uga. edu.

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