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Greater Hartford Legal Aid company history timeline

1964

The first of the “modern” legal services programs, New Haven Legal Assistance Association, was incorporated fifty years later, in 1964.

1979

1979: Among the first in the country, the Domestic Violence Unit is established

1984

Thorne filed-- Settled in 1984, GHLA won a significant victory for people with developmental disabilities

1997

1997: GHLA acquired some of the funding and staff of Neighborhood Legal Services (NLS), bringing together the legal aid offices that serve low-income Hartford County residents.

2003

2003: Immigrants Legal Needs Initiative began:

2008

Wilson-Coker filed; settled in 2008, fundamentally restructuring the Medicaid dental program to provide adequate preventative and treatment care to children

2012

2012: Education Initiative began, to protect the educational opportunities of students whose right to a quality, appropriate education is jeopardized by inappropriate, excessive and racially disproportionate discipline, suspensions or expulsions

2014

“The legal aid symposium grew out of the Fellows’ legal aid oral history project, and was prompted by the 50th anniversary of New Haven Legal Assistance in 2014, and 100 years of legal aid in Hartford.

2014: Domestic Violence Advocacy: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices book co-authored by GHLA’s deputy director

2022

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