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Bet Tzedek Legal Services

For 40 years, Bet Tzedek Legal Services has provided quality, free legal services to our community’s most vulnerable residents, including survivors of the Holocaust. Through our Holocaust Survivors Justice Network (HSJN), law firms and social service agencies throughout the United States provide pro bono assistance to survivors, based on trainings and advice provided by Bet Tzedek. The number of Holocaust survivors living in poverty is staggering. Receipt of Holocaust reparations can help provide some level of economic stability for survivors. However, applying for these reparations programs can be a daunting, difficult, and in many cases confusing process for survivors and their family members. Some survivors rely on rely on US government-funded benefits to meet their basic needs. Complications can arise when applying for or when receiving these needs-based benefits. For example, eligibility standards may not be applied correctly and in some instances denials or changes in the amount of a benefit received must be appealed. Still other survivors face a myriad of elder law issues, such as the need for assistance with drafting a will or an advance health care directive. Others may be subject to psychological, physical, or economic abuse at the hands of a caregiver, and thus may require assistance securing an elder abuse protective order. During this one year project, the VISTA member will help increase Bet Tzedek’s capacity to address these issues by working with staff to develop and implement a plan to train volunteer attorneys and social workers on how to assist survivors with reparations, government benefits, and elder law issues. In addition, the member will help continue to develop and maintain HSJN’s website as a volunteer tool to facilitate this work. While the program will initiate in Los Angeles County, the ultimate goal is to increase the capacity of volunteer attorneys and social workers across the country to assist with these issues through our HSJN.

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This listing is currently not accepting applications.

Member Duties : Under the supervision of a Bet Tzedek staff attorney, the VISTA member will: -Expand Bet Tzedek’s HSJN beyond its current capacity by developing training materials and organizing and facilitating trainings in Los Angeles and across the country related to appeals of wrongful denial, reduction, or termination of US government benefits received by survivors. -Expand Bet Tzedek’s HSJN beyond its current capacity by developing training materials and organizing and facilitating trainings in Los Angeles and across the country for volunteer attorneys and social workers related to assisting Holocaust survivors with elder law matters -Build out Bet Tzedek’s HSJN website, utilizing that and other new technologies to maintain and expand Bet Tzedek’s capacity to support the network. -Maintain a registry of attorneys and social works trained on the above noted issues. -Track cases and services that are provided to Holocaust survivors by volunteer attorneys

Program Benefits : Relocation Allowance , Training , Health Coverage* , Living Allowance , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Childcare assistance if eligible .


*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.

Terms : Permits working at another job during off hours .

Service Areas : Community and Economic Development .

Skills : Law , Team Work , Computers/Technology .



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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
Bet Tzedek Legal Services

Program Start/End Date
08/25/2015 - 09/01/2016

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
College graduate

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	CALIFORNIA Los Angeles/Orange County

Accepting Applications
From 05/12/2015 To 07/14/2015

Contact	Diego Cartegena
13 3250 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90010
323-549-5839
dcartagena@bettzedek.org
www.bettzedek.org/

Listing ID	61369


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