Latino Community Services

Connecticut Network for Legal Aid launches bilingual self-help website

Date: 
Monday, August 30, 2010

The Connecticut Network for Legal Aid has launched www.ctnla.org and www.ayudalegalct.org to help Connecticut's low-income residents find legal information and advice. The site features easy-to-read information on such issues as evictions and foreclosures, housing and employment discrimination, domestic violence, and family law. Much of the site's content is offered in Spanish. Users will also find links to legal and civil rights information in five other languages. The site explains how to apply for legal aid and identifies court forms, government agency sites, and community organizations that may be able to help them.

The web site is funded by the Connecticut Bar Foundation, which administers the Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA), the Judicial Branch-Grants-in-Aid, and the Court Fees Grants-in-Aid programs for the benefit of legal services agencies in Connecticut.
CTNLA.org also receives support from the Legal Services Corporation, which awarded two Technology Initiative Grants to Connecticut's Legal Aid Network to develop the site. CTNLA.org is housed at New Haven Legal Assistance Association.
For more information: Patricia Kaplan, New Haven Legal Assistance Association, (203) 946-4811,pkaplan@nhlegal.org.