This webinar is part of the 2020 PLAN VOCA Grantee Training. Click here for a full schedule of the scheduled webinars in this program.
 

…But how will I keep the lights on?” : Addressing Utility Needs for Survivors of Domestic Violence

June 10, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Presenter: Elizabeth Marx, PULP

Access to affordable heat, electricity, and telephone service is absolutely critical for survivors of domestic violence to establish a safe and healthy home. Survivors commonly face burdensome challenges to connecting and maintaining utility service – often as a direct result of economic abuse.  

In this session, the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project will cover the essentials of utility billing, collections, and terminations, will address unique utility protections for survivors of domestic violence, and will share best practice strategies to assist survivors in transition to connect and maintain affordable utility services. 

Registration Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tcuiqrjssEtY3E_OIcrAhZcIWWJ0MS3jV

ABOUT THE 2020 PLAN VOCA GRANTEE TRAINING

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. (PLAN) is offering 12 one-hour webinars during June 2020 in place of the previously announced 2-day training contemplated for June 23-24, 2020. Attendance at 10 of these webinars will satisfy the 10-hour mandatory training requirement and offer two extra training hours. These webinars will offer provide one (1.0) PA CLE credit each for participation. 

Certificates of Participation for your personnel files will be sent out after all of the sessions have been completed.  

PLEASE NOTE: PERSONS WORKING UNDER A VOCA GRANT MUST COMPLETE THE TRAINING HOURS AND HAVE THE DOCUMENTATION IN THEIR PERSONNEL FILES. 

PLAN thanks PCCD, especially Kathy Buckley and Jeff Blystone, for their creativity and flexibility in allowing us to offer this training virtually in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PLAN also thanks the CLE Board of the PA Supreme Court, for their ongoing funding which makes training programs like this possible for PLAN to offer.