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community members, our attorneys play an important role by showing our clients and <br />their families that they are not alone through this process. <br />The impact of this project will be most concretely evident in the number of clients <br />served through the program, and the impact of representation on the outcome of <br />those clients' cases. We will be able to measure this impact by the sheer numbers of <br />clients receiving representation, but also by comparing the outcomes of cases of those <br />clients who receive representation with the outcomes of unrepresented detainees. <br />This data will be readily available through our internal case management software and <br />government -maintained immigration court data. <br />Another Important indicator of the project's impact will be the number of Orange <br />County area residents who receive an intake screening even if ultimately, they are <br />unable to receive representation through the project due to financial or residency <br />factors. The screening in and of itself is an important benefit to a potential client as <br />we will be able to use it to orient the detainee to the Immigration removal process <br />and offer them options outside of our services such as referrals to reputable private <br />attorneys. <br />In addition to the sheer number of clients served under the project and the outcome <br />of the cases, it will be important to measure the qualitative impact of these services <br />on our clients, their families and our communities. We will measure this impact <br />through follow-up surveys of clients, asking about the effect the representation <br />services had on their ability to return to their communities. Through a post -services <br />survey or questionnaire, we will best be able to identify clients who are successfully <br />reintegrating into our communities and highlight this for local media and Santa Ana <br />elected officials. This will ultimately enable us to build support for continuing funding <br />for removal defense in Orange County. <br />ImmDef would also be interested in facilitating meetings between clients whose cases <br />are successfully completed and the Santa Ana City Councilmember whose district they <br />live in so that we may directly show elected officials the Impact of the program on <br />their constituents. <br />Please use the table below to estimate of the number of hours spent, by position, on each type of <br />case. <br />Please note, for the table below, we gathered this hourly data from an analysis of our <br />billing for our NQRP cases over the past year. For the supervising attorney we have only <br />included the data as if the supervising attorney is supporting a case assigned to a staff <br />attorney, not if the case is assigned to them. Of course, for cases assigned to the <br />supervising attorney, the amount of hours spent on the case would be closer to the <br />hours spent by a staff attorney on a similar cases. <br />Additionally, this chart only reflects work that under our NQRP program is billed <br />specifically to an individual client for the merits of their case, but not for the associated <br />bond hearings. Since bond hearings are separate proceedings that require preparation <br />25B-23 <br />