Job o' the Day: North Carolina Family Support Attorney
By Lauren Forbes
Legal Services of Southern Piedmont seeks a Family Support and Health Care Attorney. The purpose of the Family Support and Health Care Program is to ensure that low-
income children, the elderly, disabled persons, immigrants and their families have access to health care and public services. The program is designed both to obtain specific relief for the individuals and families who contact the program for assistance, and also to utilize systemic advocacy strategies to change the rules, procedures and practices of federal and state agencies to ensure access to health care and public services for all affected persons.
The program focuses its advocacy efforts on the following issues:
- Access to quality health care for children and parents in low and moderate-income families.
- Assisting families on, formerly on or in danger of needing welfare in becoming self-sufficient by improving access to child support enforcement, child care, education, training, transportation, substance abuse treatment, Food Stamps, EITC, Medicaid, affordable housing, and other supportive services.
- Improving health care and income support for the disabled and elderly poor, with a focus on issues involving Social Security, SSI, Medicaid, Medicare, and on improving mental health services, care in nursing and rest homes, access to community-based care, services to the HIV-positive population, and managed care.
- Working closely with the LSSP Immigrant Justice Program to address these issues as they impact immigrants.
FSHCP combines representation of individuals in administrative appeals with class action litigation and other impact advocacy to try to change government agency policies and practices to benefit low income and medically needy persons in Mecklenburg county and throughout North Carolina.
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