September 7, 2021 by Clarissa Ayala
Lone Star Legal Aid Celebrates 1 Year of The Safe Space Series
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Houston, Texas – We are celebrating our 1-year anniversary of The Safe Space with a video montage of the past 12 episodes. The Safe Space is a live-streaming video outreach series aimed at providing survivors of sexual assault with free legal information and resources.
Sexual violence can have an immediate and devastating effect on the survivor in nearly every aspect of their life, resulting in a need for survivor-centered and trauma-informed legal representation.
“Lone Star Legal Aid, as part of the larger statewide LASSA Network, is committed to providing survivors with individualized, holistic legal services. We are thrilled to provide an online platform for discussion of topics relevant to sexual violence survivors, as well as to the advocates that serve this special population,” says Victoria Smith, Directing Attorney, and Survivor Advocate.
With the pandemic forcing community outreach to go virtual, our Individual Safety Unit started the monthly virtual outreach series via Facebook Live. In 1-hour episodes, our attorneys and partner organizations cover topics ranging from consent to domestic violence, from human trafficking to Title IX, and issues facing the LGBTQIA+, Latinx, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities.
Featured in the series are the 9 Texas LASSA Grantees and many other like-minded community partner organizations.
Texas LASSA Grantees: Catholic Charities of Dallas, Equal Justice Center, Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, Lone Star Legal Aid, St. Frances Cabrini Center for Immigrant Legal Assistance, Tahirih Justice Center, Texas Advocacy Project, Texas Legal Services Center, and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
Be sure to tune-in this week, Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 3:00 PM, on our Facebook page to catch a discussion on Fair Housing and Sexual Assault with our Texas LASSA staff, alongside advocates from Austin Tenants’ Council and Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.
Texas LASSA is funded by the Texas Access to Justice Foundation.
Lone Star Legal Aid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm focused on advocacy for low-income and underserved populations. Lone Star Legal Aid serves millions of people at 125% of federal poverty guidelines that reside in 72 counties in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of Texas, and 4 counties of southwest Arkansas. Lone Star Legal Aid focuses its resources on maintaining, enhancing, and protecting income and economic stability; preserving housing; improving outcomes for children; establishing and sustaining family safety and stability, health and well‐being; and assisting populations with special vulnerabilities, like those with disabilities, or who are elderly, homeless, or have limited English language skills. To learn more about Lone Star Legal Aid, visit our website at http://www.lonestarlegal.org.
Media contact: media@lonestarlegal.org
