The revised LSC Performance Criteria are a key part of the Legal Service Corporation's (LSC) overall quality initiative, a multi-pronged strategy with a goal of ensuring that all LSC-funded legal services programs provide high quality legal assistance. The Criteria were revised to reflect the significant changes in the legal services delivery system since the first version of the Criteria in 1993. The new version contains references to the revised American Bar Association's (ABA) Standards for the Provision of Civil Legal Aid, which were issued in August 2006. The Criteria will be used to guide LSC's assessments of program performance generally and in the competitive grants process and they are designed to guide the examination of legal services programs that provide comprehensive legal assistance to low income persons in a geographical service area, including limited and full representation and other forms of legal services. The Criteria are also a useful framework for internal program self-evaluations, planning and program development as well as external peer reviews and expert assessments by other funding sources, such as IOLTA programs and government agencies.
Contact Information:
Janet LaBella Legal Services Corporation 3333 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 (202) 295-1500 labellaj@lsc.gov
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