Our Mission
MidPenn Legal Services is a non-profit, public interest law firm that provides high quality free civil legal services to low-income residents and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in 18 counties in Central Pennsylvania.
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Our Impact In Fiscal Year 2018-2019
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People Helped
19,349
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Cases Handled
10,268
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Economic Benefit $
3,749,113
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Advocate Hours
106,058
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Our programs are designed to further our mission and provide much needed services for our constituents.
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News & Notes
If you’re still not sure what you’re doing over spring break, check out these ideas for how you can have fun and give back.
Centre Daily Times - For many of us January marks a time of reflection, a time when we turn the excesses of the holiday season to more sober things, including the necessity of filing a federal income tax return. That's right, income tax filing season is upon us.
CBS News - More than 1.5 million U.S. public school students experienced homelessness during the 2017-2018 school year, according to a National Center for Homeless Education report released in January. The number is the highest recorded in over ten years and represents a population larger than the estimated total population of Dallas.
The number of students experiencing homelessness spiked by 15% between 2015 and 2018, the three most recent school years covered in the report. In the 2015-2016 school year, 1,307,656 students were reported as homeless, compared to the 1,508,265 students in 2017-2018 year, according to the report.
