Skaggs Homeless Youth Fellowship

Job description

Description Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio (LASCO)’s mission is to provide civil legal aid and advocacy to overcome unfairness and injustice, reduce poverty, and increase opportunity. LASCO has a long-standing history of being committed to searching out the patterns, causes of, and solutions to the repetitive and fundamental legal problems facing low-income Ohioans and pursuing the legal recourse needed to address those problems. Since 1966, our organizations have helped thousands of Ohio’s poor obtain and keep housing, secure public benefits, worked with families to gain and maintain economic stability, and helped domestic violence survivors to live free of fear and abuse and to obtain the resources needed to sustain themselves and their children. The Moritz College of Law and LASCO, in conjunction with the Skaggs Family Foundation are offering a one-year Fellowship for the 2026-2027, autumn to autumn time frame. The Fellow, working under the supervision of attorneys at LASCO, will work to improve opportunities and secure stability for low-income Franklin County youth by offering legal education, outreach, and representation to youth who are housing insecure or experienci...