Lakeshore Legal Aid gets $100K grant

Lakeshore Legal Aid, which provides legal assistance in Metro Detroit, has received $100,000 to produce instructional videos for people using the service or representing themselves in court.

The Legal Services Corporation on Monday announced it has awarded a $100,400 Technology Initiative Grant to Lakeshore Legal Aid to create userfriendly animated videos and $399,000 to the Michigan Advocacy Program to improve its use of technology in assisting low-income individuals that it serves, according to a news release.

Lakeshore provides civil legal assistance to low-income individuals from 14 offices in Metro-Detroit and the Thumb. It has offices in Warren, Mount Clemens, Pontiac, Southfield, Riverview, Dearborn, Detroit and Caro.

The Michigan Advocacy Programprovides legal service in south-central Michigan.

Legal Service Corp. is an independent nonprofit agent established by Congress in 1974 to financially support civil legal aid to low-income Americans. The LSC provides funding to 132 nonprofit legal aid programs in the United States and Territories.

The technology grant program started in 2000 to develop and replica te technologies that improve efficiency and provide greater access to high-quality legal assistance.

“LSC’s Technology Initiative Grants support projects that improve the delivery of legal services and information to people who would otherwise have to navigate the legal system alone,” said LSC President Ronald S. Flagg n the release.

The organizations are two of 24 recipients of 2020 TIG funding totaling nearly $4 million, officials said.