Lead student counselors will work closely with a Supervising Attorney and Mithoff Pro Bono Scholars to manage applicants and clinic documents. Students will help with individual appointments, prepare for sessions, answer applicant questions, and prepare petitions, orders, and Statements of Inability to Pay. Lead student counselors will be responsible for communicating with an assigned applicant and scheduling an appointment to work with the applicant while maintaining confidentiality and adhering to UT requirements for data security. The Gender Affirmation Project provides helps people in the trans community change their name and/or gender marker on basic forms of identification.
Organization
Gender Affirmation Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Gender Affirmation Project is a student-led internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program in partnership with OUTLaw.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
September 2020
- Approximate hours of work requested
- Up to 10 hours during the fall semester, in addition to the required training sessions. Lead student counselors must have attended a GAP Training Session AND at least one GAP Clinic Session in fall or summer 2020
- Training
- Students must attend the next GAP Training Session (Tuesday, September 22, 6pm-8pm); students also must attend a separate training for lead student counselors that will be scheduled based on student availability
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/counseling; community education/outreach; document preparation; cultural competence; understanding of legal theory and related problem-solving
- Project location
- Virtual
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 24
- Class year preference
- 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Prior GAP experience required
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest, any language skills, and indicating which Clinic Session(s) you have previously attended to ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu