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Advocates from the Alliance of Ohio Legal Aid member organizations participate in statewide taskforces to share resources and tactics to improve client outcomes, offer substantive trainings, and identify and address systems and practices that unfairly impact low-income Ohioans.

Use the links below to:

• Access taskforce and group SharePoint folders to find meeting agendas, share resources, and work collaboratively. If you do not already have access to a folder, you can request access by clicking on the folder button.
• Subscribe to an email group to communicate with other advocates, learn about taskforce and group meetings and trainings, and get involved with advocacy efforts.
• Send an email to a taskforce or group. Note: you have to join a taskforce email group in order to send a message to that group.

Consumer Taskforce

The Consumer Taskforce builds capacity to help those living in poverty retain assets in order to build and maintain individual, family, and generational wealth. Advocates share litigation and advocacy strategies related to debt collection, bankruptcy, foreclosure and homeownership, automotive sales/lending, predatory lending, estate recovery, and other consumer advocacy issues. Taskforce meetings include legislative updates, substantive consumer law topics, case law review, and litigation roundtables. 

Employment Taskforce



The Employment Law Taskforce focuses on unemployment insurance, reentry, driver's license reinstatement, and other areas identified as barriers to employment. Our goal is to improve access to benefits, remove barriers, and improve the quality of our legal services. We collaborate, exchange ideas and resources, work on projects, and share best practices on case-specific concerns and larger systemic issues. 

Family Law Taskforce

Health & Public Benefits Taskforce

The Health & Public Benefits Taskforce advocates for the equitable and efficient administration of public benefits, including Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and state and federal cash assistance programs. To increase and stabilize income for Ohioans living in poverty, taskforce members participate on State administrative committees influencing benefit reforms, advocate with county and State agencies for enhanced accessibility and responsiveness, and comment on proposed rule changes. Additionally, taskforce members share strategies for resolving challenges to accessing benefits, helping clients successfully appeal benefit denials and reductions, and advocating for improved administration of Medicaid waivers and Medicaid managed care plans. Current subcommittees include the Medicaid Unwinding Workgroup, Medicaid Waiver Workgroup, and SNAP Language Access. 

Housing Taskforce



The Housing Taskforce engages in advocacy and litigation strategy related to eviction defense, tenants’ rights, emergency rental assistance programs, preservation of affordable housing, housing protections for domestic violence victims, utility reselling, eviction record sealing, and other housing-related legal concerns. Taskforce members monitor institutional investors, the implementation of the HUD Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, and the Ohio Housing Finance Agency’s Qualified Allocation Plan, which calls for the fair and equitable distribution of housing credits including the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.  

Immigrant Advocacy Taskforce



Members of the Immigrant Advocacy Taskforce share advocacy and strategies for helping immigrant clients access public benefits, attain employment authorization and other immigration relief, with a focus on representing victims of domestic violence or other crimes. Additionally, immigration law advocates learn from one another’s client eligibility guidelines and other programmatic tools and resources. Tri-annual taskforce meetings include substantive immigration law presentations, legislative updates, discussions about timely immigration topics, and case roundtables.

Racial Justice Taskforce



The Racial Justice Taskforce elevates statewide racial justice advocacy by educating legal aid advocates and promoting and engaging in racial justice advocacy. The Racial Justice Taskforce holds bi-monthly roundtable forums open to all Alliance member employees.

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