Mosaic Family Services recently received a $9,600 grant for the Multicultural Legal Services Program from the Texas Bar Foundation. This generous grant will support the Language Access Program within the legal program by expanding interpretive services in order to improve access to justice for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) victims. As an agency that targets refugees and immigrants, approximately 80% of Mosaic’s clients speak little to no English. Consequently, the Multicultural Legal Services Program depends upon translators and interpreters to effectively serve clients. Professional interpreters are often unaware of crime victim issues and are unprepared for adversarial courtroom settings. Through the Language Access Program, the legal program at Mosaic can better serve its clients by ensuring the provision of professional interpreters and by training those interpreters to be sensitive to issues such as domestic violence and human trafficking, which directly impact the LEP victims.
Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $12 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’s largest charitably-funded bar foundation.
Mosaic Family Services Multicultural Legal Services Program employs three full-time attorneys who provide immigration and family law representation for low-income immigrant victims of crimes such as domestic violence and human trafficking.
For more information on the Texas Bar Foundation, please visit their website.
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