Winter issue of LLOPSCitedThe LLOPS Outreach Committee is pleased to announce that we have awarded two $500 Community Access to Legal Information grants this year. LLOPS Community Access to Legal Information grants are awarded each year to non-profit organizations in the Puget Sound which create, expand, or update legal resource collections or facilitate access to legal resources. Our 2008 recipients are LAW Advocates of Whatcom County and the King County Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program.
LAW Advocates is a private, non-profit organization that has been providing civil legal services to low-income residents in Whatcom County since 1987. The programs they offer include family law, domestic violence prevention, debtor/creditor and immigration clinics, a will drafting service and summer “street law” advisory groups. LAW Advocates will be using the LLOPS grant funds to purchase a new software license for Legal Plus’ Family Soft pleadings program. Family Soft enables their clients to prepare standard mandatory family law forms on a computer through a user-friendly interface.
The King County Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program provides 70 staff and volunteer ombudsmen who act as advocates for residents of nursing homes, boarding homes and adult family housing units. They will be using the LLOPS grant funds to create an updated version of their brochure about involuntary discharge. It will provide their clients with information about their discharge rights and how to appeal an unjust discharge.
Representatives from both programs will attend the January LLOPS meeting to accept their grants and answer questions about their services.
--LLOPS Outreach Committee
Kim Ositis, Chair
Dianne George
Rick Stroup
2008 Compensation SurveyThe Winter 2008 issue of LLOPSCited is now available for your reading pleasure. This issue contains:
Thanks to all our contributors, and a good night! Cheryl
- - A description of grand jury duty
- - A Marketing Matters column on increasing visibility for library services
- - News about the holiday party and gift card drive
- - A cheery holiday message from our President
The results of the 2008 Compensation Survey are now available to LLOPS members by logging into the Members Only section. Contact webmaster Kim Ositis if you need the user name and password. Thanks to Christy Leith for her work to put together the survey.