Jewish Family Service is pleased to announce that the agency has received two grants for its Legal Referral Service for the 2018-2019 fiscal year.
Funding from the Oakland County Bar Foundation will allow the agency’s Legal Referral Service to provide professional trainings and educational programs to JFS staff, the legal community, as well as the broader community on prevalent legal topics.
A challenge grant from the Jewish Women’s Foundation will go toward supporting program operations that allow JFS to provide this invaluable service to its clients.
“These generous donations enable us to meet the increasing legal needs of our clients and to enhance collaboration between our JFS front line staff and our amazing volunteer attorneys who work to protect the rights and dignity of our vulnerable clients,” said Kelly Goldberg, program coordinator of the Legal Referral Service.
Generously supported by the Jewish Women’s Foundation, the JFS Legal Referral Service was created to help JFS clients facing tough economic times to obtain legal consultation and possible representation. The program connects those in need with the community’s most prominent attorneys in the fields of family and elder law, probate, debt resolution and bankruptcy, landlord and tenant issues, real estate, and tax law. Since 2008, the JFS Legal Referral Service has served more than 1000 clients with volunteer attorneys providing over two million dollars in pro bono legal services.
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