Harrisburg, PA - In September, the Forest Path Foundation awarded $20,000 to MidPenn Legal Services to support the multilingual translation of key MidPenn documents for use by clients with Limited English Proficiency and ensure that services are inclusive and equitable.
The Forest Path Foundation grant will assist MidPenn in achieving crucial goals such as increasing accessibility by translating essential documents into the most frequently used languages, enhance outreach, allowing MidPenn to connect with and support a broader range of clients who face language barriers, and promote equity ensuring all individuals have equal access to legal information and resources.
Since 2012, the Forest Path Foundation has been contributing to initiatives primarily related to literacy, homeless issues, and libraries. The foundation’s focus is to enhance community well-being through education and public health services.
MidPenn is the largest civil legal aid organization in Central Pennsylvania that provides free legal representation in civil cases, annually serving more than 21,000 low-income residents and survivors of violence. The organization specializes in poverty-related issues, and the attorneys and advocates have developed expertise in the substantive areas of landlord/tenant law, mortgage foreclosure, Social Security, income maintenance, consumer, domestic violence, family law, elder law, and other issues affecting vulnerable and marginalized populations. For additional information, please contact Eliz Nestorov, at 717-234-0492, ext. 2215.
