LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY (2) - 2017

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City of Santa Ana CDBG Scope of Work Program Year 2017.18 (July 1, 2017 -June 30, 2018) Name of Organization Legal Aid Society of Orange County Name of Funded Program Expungement Services Annual Accomplishment Goal Undu Ilcated Partici ants anticipated to be served during, the 12 -month contract period. 207 TOTAL 207 Santa Ana Participants F100°fi 1 2071 Low Income Partidpants 100% Program and Funding Description This grant will allow LASOC to expand and improve the expungement clinic In six keyways, 1) LASOC can add capacity on the'backend' when It comes to analyzing rap sheets and determining which crimes can be expunged. The capacity will also be built through recruitment of volunteers, for pro bono legal assistance, and working with community organizations, such as. Resilience OC, for community outreach. This will increase the total number of expungements the clinic can complete. 2) This expanded capacity will allow LASOC to promote the clinic In our targeted service area. Now we'll be able to target expungement, Including targeting current or former foster youth at Orangewood. 3) This funding will allow the expungement clinicto hold clinics or fairs at the various sites. Currently LASOC has shown it can operate a homeless outreach clinic at the Santa Ana Courtyard. With the use of mobile technology, such as laptops and a mobile 4G HotSpot, LASOC has the ability to prepare forms for Individuals contemporaneously with interviewing them at the clinic. 4) In going mobile, the clinic would be held more than Just monthly. While keeping the monthly Santa Ana office expungement clinic, LASOC would hold an additional clinics or outreach events targeting a different area and population each month. 5) LASOC also wants to add two additional services to its expungement clinic: juvenile criminal record sealing and Certificate of Rehabilitation. Both services will help clients remove barriers to certain employment and housing. These two services have been requested by the Santa Ana community. Finally, this funding would allow for clients to attorney representation at criminal dismissal hearings in Orange County. Specifically, the funding would allow LASOC to train more volunteer attorneys to undertake these representations, while also providing the resources to have a staff attorney as a backup when volunteer attorneys are unavailable. Schedule of Performance Unduplicated Estimated Participants Invoicin Quarter 1: JUL 1 - SEP 30 Quarter 2: OCT 1 - DEC 31 52 $ Quarter 3: JAN 1 - MAR 31 52 $ Quarter 4: APR 1 - JUN 30 51 $ 207 $ Exhibit A Page 1 of 1