News

The CLS Connection, the newsletter of goings on at Columbia Legal Services, has published its Summer 2008 edition. You can find it here.

Several years after a landmark settlement in a lawsuit for a class of foster children (represented by CLS and others), the 2008 state budget includes substantial funding for programs to improve the quality of life for children living in foster care in Washington. Read this article to find out more.

For more about the settlement and the process, go to Braamkids.org.

The Economic Justice Project (EJP) works on consumer issues in Washington State that affect low income individuals' abilities to access and build assets. Read more about the work of the project in EJP's Spring Newsletter.

CLS Attorney Greg Provenzano successfully advocated on behalf of low income families in Clark County Washington where the Vancouver Housing Authority proposed major changes in its rent tabulations. A plan to overhaul the Section 8 program threatened to increase the rents of thousands of Clark County residents. This article in "The Columbian" has the complete story.

The CLS Connection is our semi-annual newsletter.