In this interactive session, participants will be provided information and tools to address a pervasive economic issue for survivors: utility debt. Participants will engage in a discussion about the unique difficulties survivors face in establishing and maintaining utility services. The discussion will then turn towards how participants can assist survivors to resolve utility issues and best practices for utility advocacy. 

Topics for discussion will include: recognizing the unique obstacles to survivors establishing and maintaining utility services; available legal protections and assistance programs to address utility affordability; how to understand and navigate the utility termination and reconnection processes; and special protections available to survivors and other vulnerable consumer who are facing utility unaffordability or termination of services.

Presenters: 
Ria Pereira, Pennsylvania Utility Law Project and 
Giovanna Brackbill, Pennsylvania Utility Law Project

CLE Credit

This program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.0 hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit.

PLEASE NOTE:  if you are requesting CLE credit for attending this webinar you must actively participate in the entire webinar. There will be interactive polls launched during the webinar that you will have to respond to in order to prove your active participation. 

IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE TO EVERY POLL QUESTION WE ARE UNABLE TO GIVE YOU THE CLE CREDIT.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. 

About the 2024 PLAN VOCA Grantee Training

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc will be offering the 2024 VOCA Grantee Mandatory Training virtually this year, during the week of May 6, 2024. Ten webinars will be offered during the week of training, two per day. This will satisfy the 10-hour mandatory training that PCCD requires of VOCA grantees in Pennsylvania.

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