Best Practice Notes Index

• March 2015 (Volume 15, Nos. 3&4)
  • Guidelines for Assessing Capacity of a State’s Legal Services
  • Delivery System to Meet Critical Legal Needs of Vulnerable Elders

• July 2013 (Volume 15, Nos. 1&2)
  • Targeting Older Americans Act Services Without Means Testing: Meeting the Challenge
  • States' Minimum Percentage of Title IIIB Funds and Expenditures for Legal Assistance

• March 2005 (Volume 14, Nos. 1&2)
  • Assessing Legal Needs of Older Persons: A General Primer
  • A Guide to Conducting a Legal Needs Survey
  • Checklist -- Legal Needs Survey
  • Worksheet -- Planning a Legal Needs Survey

• December 2004 (Volume 13, Nos. 1&2)
  • The Essential Role of the State Legal Services Developer: Blueprint for a Model Job Description
  
  
  • Part One: Critical Role of the Legal Developer in Providing State Leadership on Legal Assistance and Elder Rights
    Part Two: Blueprint for a Job Description for a Model State Legal Services/ Assistance Developer
    • Mini White House Conference Recommendations Support the Need for Strong Legal Developer in Every State
    • Mark Your Calendar: Guardianship/Caregiver Mediation Training, 10/17-19
  • November 2003 (Volume 12, Nos. 1&2)
    • Hitting Your Mark: Using Targeting Techniques to Reach Those Most in Need
    • Downloadable PowerPoint Presentations Now Available
    • PowerPoint on Selecting a Title IIIB Legal Provider
    • Victory for Elders Severly Affected by Secondhand Smoke in HUD-Assisted Housing
    • Landmark Study of State Legal Services Developers Online
    • OAA as Amended in 2000 Now Online in U.S. Code
  • April 2001 (Volume 11, Nos. 1&2)
    • Legal Assistance and the 2000 OAA Amendments: Questions & Answers
    • National Aging & Law Conference Announced
    • States' Minimum Percentage of Title IIIB Funds for Legal Assistance
    • New Features on TCSG's Web Site: Unofficial Compilation of the OAA and a State Legal Services Development Section
    • TCSG Guardianship Mediation Training to Be Held June 3-5, 2001
    • Landmark OK Law Establishes Office of Legal Services Development
    • Please Help Us Update Our Mailing List
  • March 2000 (Volume 10, Number 3)
    • Outcome Measures for Title IIIB Legal Assistance Programs: An Introduction
    • National Aging and Law Conference Announcement
    • Constitutional Claims Against Texas IOLTA Dismissed
  • December 1999 (Volume 10, Numbers 1 & 2)
    • A Message from NALSD Chairman Richard Ingham
    • Legal Services Developers: The Key to a Strong Elder Rights System
    • Meet the Orphan of the Elder Rights System
    • TCSG Unveils New National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Persons
  • December 1998 (Volume 9, Numbers 3 & 4)
    • A Message from Assistant Secretary Jeanette Takamura.
    • An Agenda for Action from the Symposium on Reinvigorating Legal Assistance for the Elderly.
    • New Challenges to Legal Assistance for the Elderly Poor: The Texas IOLTA Case
    • "Our Past Successes, Our Present and Future Challenges": Remarks from Jonathan Asher
    • Elder Rights Advocates Lose a Treasure
    • The Tobacco Settlement Funds and Aging Programs
    • Key Strategies for Obtaining Tobacco Settlement Funds for Aging Programs
    • TCSG Announces Guardianship Mediation Training

  • March 1998 (Volume 9, Numbers 1 & 2)
    • Reinvigorating Legal Assistance for the Elderly & Elder Rights Advocacy
    • Elder Rights Advocacy and the LSC Restrictions:
      How Serious is the Conflict?
    • TCSG's Symposium '97:
      Reinvigorating Legal Assistance for the Elderly
    • Wisconsin and Massachusetts Elder Rights Advocates Receive Eleventh Lichterman Award
    • "Nandina" -- A Poem by Daniel Lichterman
  • November 1997 (Volume 8, Numbers 3 & 4)
    • A National Survey of Legal Assistance for the Elderly:
      Results, Recommendations & Concerns
    • Update: Criminalization of Advising on Asset Transfers in Medicaid Planning
  • May 1997 (Volume 8, Numbers 1 & 2)
    • Enhancing Legal Services for Vulnerable Elders:
      The Challenge for Aging and Legal Service Advocates
  • September 1996 (Volume 7, Numbers 3 & 4)
    • Tobacco is an Elderly Issue Too!
    • Adult Guardianship Mediation
    • Alert!  Criminalization of Asset Transfers to Qualify for Medicaid
    • Legal Service Developers Hold 3rd Annual Symposium
    • Elder Rights Advocates Mourn Loss of Arthur Flemming
    • Samuel Simmons Receives 1995 Arthur S. Flemming Award
  • April 1996 (Volume 7, Numbers 1 & 2)
    • Reporting and Title IIIB Legal Assistance Programs
    • Focus on Michigan: New Statewide Legal Assistance Reporting System
    • Wilma Salmon of LA Receives 1995 Lichterman Award
    • "Turning a Greater Wheel" -- A Poem by Daniel Lichterman
    • Announcement: TCSG Has Co-Directors
    • Pro Bono Law Student Assistance Available -- Requests Welcomed
    • Recent TCSG Publications Available
    • HHS Hotline Announcement
  • April 1994 (Volume 6, Numbers 3 and 4)
    • Excerpts From Testimony of Arthur Flemming on the OAA Reauthorization Amendments
    • 1992 Amendments to the Older Americans Act, Part One: Focus on Elder Rights Advocacy in New Title VII
    • Georgia Legal Services Developer Receives Lichterman Award
    • "Tributary" -- A Poem by Daniel Lichterman

• July 1990 (Volume 4, Number 1)
  • An Elderly Legal Coalition: The Massachusetts Experience
  • Sample Forms Available from TCSG
  • Third Annual Joint Conference on Law and Aging
  • Nominations Sought for Licterman and Flemmings Awards
  • Model Guardianship Standards Reprinted & Available

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