Organizations Filed Purposes:
Ensuring the independence and dignity of seniors by protecting their legal rights through education, counseling and advocacy.
Provide free legal advice & representation to low-income residents of Alameda County who generally are 60 years of age and older; provides community education; and provides counseling through the health insurance counseling & advocacy program.
Legal Assistance for Seniors (LAS) has been advocating for Alameda County seniors for over 44 years. We provide free legal services, including representation in court and at administrative hearings. Our practice areas include elder abuse, public benefits, guardianships of minor children, naturalization, health law, limited conservatorships and housing. We are also court appointed to represent proposed conservatees. We make home visits to our clients who because of their health or economic situations can not come to our office. Last year, our attorneys and advocates provided legal services to 1,474 seniors.
The Alameda County HICAP of LAS provides individual counseling, advocacy and community education on Medicare, supplemental options, Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans, long term care insurance, screening and application assistance for low income programs. The HICAP department provides these services through 6 paid staff persons and 33 trained and state-registered volunteer counselors at 29 counseling sites throughout the county. Complex issues are referred to the legal department for assessment and action. In FY 2019/20, HICAP counseled 2,261 individual clients and recorded 6,357 separate contacts with these clients. HICAP staff and volunteers contributed 3,793 counseling hours and an additional 1,475 hours of training community education, and travel time. The legal department represented 170 clients with health law cases.
LAS provides group education presentations and agency representation at community events such as health and senior fairs. Legal presentation topics include consumer protection, elder abuse prevention, guardianship, housing, supportive information for aging in place, naturalization and public benefits. In FY 2019/20, the legal department provided 35 presentations, reaching 786 people. HICAP presentation topics include Medicare coverage and rights, options for supplementing Medicare, low income assistance programs for health care, Medicare and consumer fraud, and long-term care insurance. Our HICAP program participated in 111 community education events, reaching 2,601 attendees. One part time and one full time staff persons schedule and coordinate all the events and deliver the majority of presentations and trainings in the county. A part time staff provides data entry support.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| James Treggiari | Executive Dir. | 35 | $82,172 |
| Lenora Merlander | CFO | 35 | $76,923 |
| Marshall Whitley | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Jon Vaught | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Jeff Tachiki | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Joy Soulier | Director | 2 | $0 |
| David Scharff | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Kevin Rodriguez | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Tarah Powell-Chen | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Dawn Patterson | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Yvette Davis | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Susanne Cohen | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Jonathan Canick | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Ingrid Evans | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Linda Mchugh | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Jeffrey Block | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Phillip Campbell | President | 2 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
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