Asian Elderly Legal Project
SeniorLAW Center - 030080
Abstract Number: 30080
June 2003
SeniorLAW Center (SLC) created the Asian Elderly Legal Project to provide legal services to the LEP Asian elderly population living in Philadelphia. This project was replicated after the successful implementation of SLC's Hispanic Elderly Legal Project and sought to deliver legal services in housing issues, consumer issues, elder abuse, kinship care, and advance planning issues to the elderly Asian community. SLC hired a bilingual/bicultural paralegal from Hong Kong to coordinate this project. Recognizing that seniors often have special needs, SLC makes a conscious effort through their community-based legal intake clinics to ensure they maintain a presence in community locations frequented by the elderly Asian community. In addition to direct representation, advice, information and referral services, SLC also offers community legal education events held in community and senior centers on topics tailed to the meet the legal needs of the elderly Asian population. SLC has also translated a number of brochures into Chinese, Indonesian, Laotian, Cambodian, Vietnamese and other Asian languages.
To ensure the public is aware of SLC's services, SLC launched an outreach and publicity campaign that resulted in partnerships with organizations that serve Philadelphia's Asian community such as the Pennsylvania Chinese Senior Citizens Association and Nationalities Senior Center. SLC also provides trainings for professionals who work with Asian clients to provide them with tools to recognize legal issues encountered by SLC's clients. These professionals can then make referrals to SLC to address these legal problems. SLC also recruited volunteer attorneys with Asian language skills to compliment the work of their own staff. To learn more about this project, access the materials below and visit SLC's website at: http://www.seniorlawcenter.org/.
Contact Information:
Karen Buck
SeniorLAW Center
Land Title Building
100 S. Broad Street, Suite 1810
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19110
Phone: (215) 988-1244
Fax: (215) 988-1243
Email
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