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What is your role group?
 
Support staff
 
Lay advocate
 
Attorney
 
Administrative
 
 
 
What law subject areas do you deal with* most regularly (select three). 

*includes support and administrative staff work with clients, projects, or grants
 
state benefits (income, foodstamps, Medicaid)
 
health insurance benefits (exclusive of Medicaid)
 
disability income
 
disability services, including education
 
long term medical care
 
discrimination
 
housing
 
protection from abuse
 
debt
 
consumer rights
 
individual rights (guardianship, consent to treatment, advanced directives)
 
tax
 
parental rights/divorce/child support
 
Other
 

 
 
 
Do you want a Staff College Theme? A theme would introduce some aspect of a topic in Thursday’s all staff meeting, and the Friday sessions would be chosen and designed to address the theme. For example, the effect of illegal drugs on client’s legal problems, and access to resources. Are you interested in a theme? (please write in theme you are interested in).
 
yes
 
no
 
 
 
 
 
If no theme, what topic should Thursday program be? (Select all that sound interesting)
 
Follow up to VLA/LSLL structure and service delivery project
 
Poverty barriers to equal justice
 
Developing medical/legal partnership
 
Voices for Civil Justice
 
Follow up to We All Belong implications for organizational change to meet needs of underserved populations
 
Trauma informed services
 
Collateral consequences of convictions
 
Holistic approach to working with people with drug problems
 
Other
 

 
 
 
* 44% of staff at VLA/LSLL are not attorneys.  What training areas are important for non attorney staff.  Select all that are important for this year.
 
Substantive legal issues related to advocacy area
 
Substantive legal issues outside of advocacy area
 
Legal practice and procedure topics
 
Topics related to employee assistance and well being (retirement, access to resources)
 
Client service topics
 
Professional development topics (effectiveness, time management, (?))
 
Office Technology topics
 
Other
 

 
 
 
* 56% of staff at VLA/LSLL are attorneys. What training areas are important for attorney staff. Select all that are important for this year.
 
Substantive legal issues related to advocacy area
 
Substantive legal issues outside of advocacy area
 
Legal practice and procedure topics
 
Topics related to employee assistance and well being (retirement, access to resources)(no CLE credit)
 
Client service topics
 
Professional development topics (effectiveness, time management, (?))(Maybe no CLE credit)
 
Office Technology topics (incl. computerized legal research)
 
Comments

 
 
 
What sessions are you interested in this year (check as many as apply)
 
Legal Research for Non-lawyers
 
Ethics
 
Non-lawyer legal advice
 
Evidence
 
School Exclusion
 
Collateral Consequences of Conviction
 
When to collect Social Security
 
Consumer law
 
Proving disability/worker’s comp
 
Advocacy in administrative hearings
 
Discovery
 
Negotiating for lay advocates
 
Outreach
 
When recipients of federal funds are required to provide translation and interpretation
 
Trauma informed services
 
Legislative process/advocacy
 
Rule making process/advocacy
 
Appeals advocacy
 
Federal court advocacy
 
Family law
 
Housing law
 
Benefits law
 
Disability discrimination/reasonable accommodation
 
Housing discrimination
 
Employment law
 
Tax
 
Clients
 
Law office teamwork
 
Auto cases/ auto fraud
 
Evidence for lay advocates
 
Fact investigation resources and techniques
 
Factors affecting health care utilization (cost-share and what else?)
 
Comparison of other's states implementation of ACA.
 
Other
 

 
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