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Part-time Legal Assistant helping those with disabilities

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ORGANIZATION: Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

  • 24 people are interested

The Legal Clinic for the Disabled (LCD) provides free high-quality legal services to low-income people with physical disabilities and to the deaf and hard of hearing. LCD has a volunteer opportunity for someone interested in the law who can provide administrative assistance in the busy legal office located in Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. The volunteer would be opening and closing cases which involves drafting letters (templates are provided) and following a series of steps, which are written down, for keeping track of cases opened and closed. The schedule is very flexible: two half-days or one full day a week. Great for college students and for retirees.

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About Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

Location:

1513 Race St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, US

Mission Statement

The mission of Magee Rehabilitation is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities by providing high quality physical and cognitive rehabilitation services.

Description

About Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital is nationally recognized for its outstanding programs in physical and cognitive rehabilitation, with comprehensive services for spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, amputation, and orthopedic injuries.

Magee has been rated as one of America's leading rehabilitation hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" rankings. Accredited by The Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), Magee was the first facility in the nation to be CARF-accredited in brain injury rehabilitation.

Magee, in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, serves as the federally designated Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley. One of only 14 such centers in the country.

Inpatient services are delivered at Magee's main campus located at Sixteenth & Race Streets in Center City Philadelphia. Outpatient programs are delivered through Magee's outpatient network, including the Magee Riverfront outpatient center at 1500 South Columbus Boulevard, Magee at Watermark in Center City, and Magee at Oxford Valley.

For more information, please call the Volunteer Coordinator, Shannon Jacobs at 215-587-3140 or shannon.jacobs@jefferson.edu.

CAUSE AREAS

Health & Medicine
Justice & Legal
People with Disabilities
Health & Medicine, Justice & Legal, People with Disabilities

WHEN

Mon May 01, 2017 - Sat May 13, 2017

WHERE

1513 Race StPhiladelphia, PA 19102

(39.956825,-75.16542)
 

SKILLS

  • Legal (General)

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 18
  • Orientation or Training
  • 4 Hour Shift
  • 1 - 2 Days a Week

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