After settling in with Legal Aid of Southeastern and Central Ohio in week one, I was excited to move forward to help serve in new projects. This week was especially busy, as it coincided with the first of many post-merger Open Houses that are showing off how each Legal Aid office is impacting its community.

This time, we got to work with the office in Newark, which was a great opportunity to travel to a part of Ohio I have never been to! There was a lot of planning and organization that was put into the event (of which I was able to put some minor help), culminating in a successful showcase of Legal Aid’s work in the community.

Besides the trip to Newark, I also had the opportunity to visit the Athens branch during its Name & Gender Change Clinic, which helped low-income southeastern Ohioans with the legal aspects of gender-affirming care. I was there to get some photos and information for LASCO’s monthly newsletter. It was a great opportunity to contribute and learn about the process.

Finally, this Friday involved beginning the last steps of mailing out LASCO’s annual report to hundreds of donors, supporters, and friends of Legal Aid. This has involved a lot of hard work that started long before I arrived, and I have been grateful for the opportunity to assist in getting these reports out. It is very interesting to see just how important these sorts of methods of communications are to an organization like Legal Aid, and I am very excited to jump into next week to finish it out! I am also looking forward to next Tuesday, where I will be able to attend a reentry assistance clinic, which I am excited for as I am very interested in that sort of work in the future.