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#5 How can organizations support staff and help reduce vicarious trauma?

An important read via American Bar Association.

Vicarious trauma in the legal profession is more common than you might realize. Here's what you need to know: https://bit.ly/3W8qqlM

Don't miss out on signing up your Summer Interns for MIE's first ever National Legal Aid Summer Intern Orientation!

The registration deadline is May 26, 2026.

The virtual session is designed with this in mind: summer interns told us that service, justice, and community connection motivate them to work in legal aid.

In addition to an introduction to national organizations like MIE, LSC, NLADA, and the ABA, we’ll cover these topics:

- Best Practices in the Summer Intern Role;
- A History of Legal Aid;
- Unique Considerations in Working with People in Poverty; and
- Understanding Compassion Fatigue.

To learn more and sign up your interns now, visit
https://mielegalaid.org/training/26summint

National Legal Aid Summer Orientation
June 2
Noon to 5 PM ET

Today, Wednesday, May 6, is the last day to register! For full details and to register online now, visit https://mielegalaid.org/training/26weblegalserver

Join us May 7, 2026 | 2:00-3:30 pm ET for
Using LegalServer in Resource Development and Grant Management!

Discover how to maximize LegalServer's powerful tools to strengthen your grant management processes and support resource development efforts in this webinar with:

IV Ashton, Founder and President of LegalServer;
Eric Mittelstadt, Community Empowerment and Data Analytics at LegalServer:
and Ilenia Sanchez-Bryson, Chief Program & Innovation Officer at Legal Services of Greater Miami.

To learn more and register online now visit
https://mielegalaid.org/training/26weblegalserver

Registration is Now Open!

Visit https://mielegalaid.org/training/26fr&c for a select list of conference topics, add-on workshop details for Executive Directors and Directors of Development, hotel information, registration rates, and more.

Connect with your peers as we explore relevant and timely topics that will help you move "Forward Together" through support for your legal aid organization's work.

We'll announce more information as it becomes available.

Join us May 7, 2026 | 2:00-3:30 pm ET for
Using LegalServer in Resource Development and Grant Management!

Discover how to maximize LegalServer's powerful tools to strengthen your grant management processes and support resource development efforts in this webinar with:

IV Ashton, Founder and President of LegalServer;
Eric Mittelstadt, Community Empowerment and Data Analytics at LegalServer:
and Ilenia Sanchez-Bryson, Chief Program & Innovation Officer at Legal Services of Greater Miami.

To learn more and register online now visit
https://mielegalaid.org/training/26weblegalserver

Save the Date!

2026 MIE National Conference for Legal Aid Fundraising and Communications
Forward Together: Uniting Supporters for Lasting Change
is scheduled for July 21 - 22, 2026 in Baltimore, MD.

Join us for a conference designed to enhance your skills as a fundraising and/or communications professional in your legal aid organization.

Connect with your peers as we explore relevant and timely topics that will help you move "Forward Together" through support for your legal aid organization's work.

Executive Directors and Directors of Development
Plan to stay with us through Thursday morning, July 23, for a special add-on workshop focused on major giving strategies.

Visit https://mielegalaid.org/training/26fr&c for more information as it becomes available.

Thank you Kate Marr, Executive Director, Community Legal Aid SoCalCal, and Diego Cartagena, President and CEO, Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice, for this insightful article.

Your discussion of the multi‑pronged partnerships among responding organizations, the breadth of immediate needs after the fires, and the ripple effects on other practice areas underscores just how complex disaster assistance truly is.

That services were already strained in the wake of COVID, and from rapid shifts in federal policy— particularly around funding— added to the challenges.

Your frank look at both the successes and pain points of these innovative partnerships will resonate and provide a great deal to learn from as organizations collaborate to respond to complex disasters in the future.

MIE Subscribers, to read the full article and the rest of this issue of the Journal with the Special Feature on Innovation, visit the MIE Library https://mielegalaid.org/library?id=6k1gGvzJCZpRQmgO0J13

We learned from summer interns that service, justice, and community connection motivate them to work in legal aid.

To provide context to that motivation and to welcome law students to the field, we invite interns to join MIE for a virtual

National Legal Aid Summer Orientation
June 2
Noon to 5 PM ET

In addition to an introduction to national organizations like MIE, LSC, NLADA, and the ABA, we’ll cover these topics:

Best Practices in the Summer Intern Role;
A History of Legal Aid;
Unique Considerations in Working with People in Poverty; and
Understanding Compassion Fatigue.

To learn more and sign up your interns now, visit
https://mielegalaid.org/training/26summint

Join Dr. Renee Rubin Ross for this webinar to consider the right season and process of strategic planning for your organization using an inclusive lens.

Inclusive Strategic Planning in Uncertain Times
AN MIE WEBINAR
April 16, 2026 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET

Learn more and register online now at https://mielegalaid.org/trainings