Helping Spotlight Legal Aid

Published: Approximately Early 2019 (15 months post-2017 wildfires) Type: Impact / Funding Feature

The Community Foundation Sonoma County featured Kendall Jarvis and Legal Aid of Sonoma County's post-wildfire recovery work, made possible in part by a Resilience Fund grant that funded a dedicated disaster attorney staff position. The article covers the breadth of legal aid provided to fire survivors — from FEMA appeals to price gouging defense — and specifically names Kendall as having helped over 150 clients and representing more than 30 Journey's End residents.

3,000+

Fire Survivors Helped

$4.5M

Secured in Aid & Insurance

150+

Kendall's Personal Caseload

30+

Journey's End Clients

"These are people who have heard no so many times. Our goal is to get the residents to be financially whole. We're not going to give up on them."

— Kendall Jarvis, Esq., Staff Attorney, Legal Aid of Sonoma County

Context

Published by Community Foundation Sonoma County in connection with their Resilience Fund grants
Journey's End mobile home park: 117 of 161 homes burned; 44 standing but red-tagged as unlivable
Residents left in bureaucratic limbo: standing homes meant insurance denied claims, FEMA denied aid
Many Journey's End residents were seniors on fixed incomes; 10 residents died in months after losing homes
Kendall's work described as a matter of "life and death" for the community

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