Gregg Lombardi - Executive Director
We have had many calls from volunteer lawyers wanting to help with the legal issues for low-income people that will follow in the wake of the Joplin tornado. Right now, Shelly Wakeman is talking with disaster relief experts from other states and we will be updating and circulating a disaster relief manual hopefully by early next week.
We hope to hold a training for volunteer attorneys to help out some time next week. Volunteers will either answer questions by phone from their own offices or go to Joplin, where we hope to be able to set up an information booth at the FEMA site.
If you want to volunteer, please call Latricia Scott Adams our VAP director at (816)474-6750. Thanks.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Back on Track
Gregg Lombardi - Executive Director
I'm extremely happy and relieved to report that everyone in the Joplin office is fine after the devastating tornado. The phones are out, but otherwise the office is fully intact.
Now it's time for us to roll up our sleeves and do what we do best, assess the damage to our clients and then do everything we can to help them get their lives back on track.
I'm extremely happy and relieved to report that everyone in the Joplin office is fine after the devastating tornado. The phones are out, but otherwise the office is fully intact.
Now it's time for us to roll up our sleeves and do what we do best, assess the damage to our clients and then do everything we can to help them get their lives back on track.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Legal Aid's Paradigm Shift
Gregg Lombardi - Executive Director
I’m pleased to report that Legal Aid of Western Missouri is now officially on You Tube.
Katie Wood is putting together a series of videos explaining our clients’ basic legal rights. The first of these to be available on-line features Legal Aid attorney Lynn Fullenkamp explaining the spenddown system for people who are on Medicaid. Spenddown is similar to a deductible for people who receive Medicaid benefits, but with a few complicated and confusing differences—such as the fact that if a Medicaid recipient does not provide proof that they have met their spenddown requirements in a given month, then Medicaid will not pay for any of their medical expenses for that month.
Lynn does a great job of describing how the system works in four minutes. You can see her presentation here. And, there’ll be plenty more of these videos to come. Thanks to Katie Wood for producing these and to Testimonial Video for filming and editing the videos and to Latricia Scott Adams for soliciting the donation of Testimonial Video’s services.
This is just one of several major technological advances that Legal Aid is working on these days. James Smith, our Tech Director (and Litigation Director), is planning several other major advances that we hope to have in place in the coming months. One of the biggest of these will be the new Legal Aid website, which will have a bunch of great features. Kelley Carpenter, our Development Director, and Karen Cutliff, our Marketing Coordinator, will be working with Legal Aid’s staff to develop the content for the website.
I’m pleased to report that Legal Aid of Western Missouri is now officially on You Tube.
Katie Wood is putting together a series of videos explaining our clients’ basic legal rights. The first of these to be available on-line features Legal Aid attorney Lynn Fullenkamp explaining the spenddown system for people who are on Medicaid. Spenddown is similar to a deductible for people who receive Medicaid benefits, but with a few complicated and confusing differences—such as the fact that if a Medicaid recipient does not provide proof that they have met their spenddown requirements in a given month, then Medicaid will not pay for any of their medical expenses for that month.
Lynn does a great job of describing how the system works in four minutes. You can see her presentation here. And, there’ll be plenty more of these videos to come. Thanks to Katie Wood for producing these and to Testimonial Video for filming and editing the videos and to Latricia Scott Adams for soliciting the donation of Testimonial Video’s services.
This is just one of several major technological advances that Legal Aid is working on these days. James Smith, our Tech Director (and Litigation Director), is planning several other major advances that we hope to have in place in the coming months. One of the biggest of these will be the new Legal Aid website, which will have a bunch of great features. Kelley Carpenter, our Development Director, and Karen Cutliff, our Marketing Coordinator, will be working with Legal Aid’s staff to develop the content for the website.
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