Students will assist individuals experiencing homelessness with driver’s license holds related to unpaid criminal justice debt. Students will meet with low-income drivers on site at Front Steps, research the cause(s) of license suspensions, and explain the steps drivers must take to recover their licenses. In most cases, the first step to driver’s license recovery will involve obtaining a fee waiver, fee reduction, or alternative payment plan. In those cases, volunteers will help individuals complete financial affidavits.
Organization
Driver’s License Recovery Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Driver’s License Recovery Project is a student-led internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program dedicated to addressing how driver’s license suspensions contribute to a cycle of incarceration for debt and create significant employment barriers in low-income communities. The Driver’s License Recovery Project is supporting the Front Steps Legal Clinic in collaboration with the Texas Fair Defense Project, Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas, and Front Steps.
Project Details
- Project Date
Tuesday, October 29
- Project Time
- 4:00pm-6:00pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3 hours, including training
- Training
- Tuesday, October 22, 4pm-5pm (TNH 2.137); students will train with volunteers for a larger driver’s license clinic; the last 20 minutes of the training is mandatory even for students who have participated in a previous driver’s license recovery clinic and will focus on the specifics of the Front Steps clinic model and working with Front Steps’ client population
- Skills used
- Client communication; records research; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Front Steps, 500 East 7th Street
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 5
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Registger at https://dlrecoveryfrontstepsf19.eventbrite.com