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City of Santa Ana CDBG Scope of Work <br />Program Year 2018-19 (July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019) <br />Name of Organization Legal Aid Society of Orange County <br />Name of Funded Program Clean Slate (Expungement) Project <br />Annual Accomplishment Goal <br />Unduplicated Participants anticipated to be served during the 12 -month contract period. <br />104 TOTAL I 1 1041 Santa Ana Participants 1 100%1 1 1041 Low Income Participants 100% <br />Schedule of Performance <br />(estimated) <br />Quarter 1: JUL 1 - SEP 30 <br />Quarter 2: OCT 1 - DEC 31 <br />Quarter 3: JAN 1 - MAR 31 <br />Quarter 4: APR 1 - JUN 30 <br />Unduplicated <br />Participants <br />26 <br />A26 <br />Program and Funding Description <br />Estimated <br />Invoicing <br />$ 11,057 <br />$ 11,057 <br />$ 11,057 <br />$ 11,056 <br />$ 44,227 <br />This grant will help to fund LASOC's successful Clean Slate Project, through which we plan to serve 104 residents of <br />Tanta Ana. LASOC will screen Santa Ana residents who have questions about their ability to qualify for dismissals, and we <br />=estimate that our legal team will prepare 300-400 dismissal petitions, certificates of rehabilitation, and records sealings for <br />these clients. We will do this through a variety of opportunities: <br />• Holding monthly expungement clinics at LASOC's Santa Ana office on Saturday mornings. Our staff, with volunteers <br />from UC Irvine Law School and the paralegal program at Santa Ana College, meets individually with clients and <br />prepare all necessary paperwork to expunge a client's record, including writing a declaration. In discretionary cases <br />this is the most important and time consuming part of the process. <br />• Full representation (when needed) of Santa Ana clients at all stages of their cases from filing through the non- <br />mandatory criminal dismissal hearings in Orange County. Specifically, the funding would allow our legal staff to <br />train more volunteer attorneys to undertake these representations, while also providing the resources to have a <br />staff attorney as a backup when volunteer attorneys are unavailable. <br />• Continued work with vulnerable populations in Santa Ana through our homeless clinic. For instance, our <br />expungement project is a critical part of our work to tackle Santa Ana's homeless problem through our weekly clinic <br />at the Santa Ana Courtyard. Funding ensures that we can maintain a consistent presence at the site, which is key to <br />follow-up with our transient clients in our effort to help them escape homelessness. <br />• Fostering our new partnerships with Santa Ana College and the Santa Ana Unified School District. Because of CDBG <br />funding in 2017, we began to attend school events as well as one -one -one meetings to help students and parents <br />address criminal records. <br />• Develop our partnership with the Mexican Consulate to reach out and offer expungement services to the immigrant <br />community in Santa Ana. <br />• Growing our work with foster youth. LASOC staff work with clients there to seal juvenile records and clear fraudulent <br />debt for youth who are transitioning to adulthood. <br />Hold informational seminars on expungement that will reach 250 people in Orange County. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />