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To assess the success of their outreach, programs can employ a range of methods to evaluate their targeting <br />efforts. For example, legal services providers can seek regular feedback from clients through targeted surveys and <br />documenting informal feedback. Programs can also use the data they collect on clients served, and regularly <br />review that data to determine whether target populations are receiving needed services. Finally, coordinating <br />with legal and aging partners, perhaps through an Advisory Committee or other established coordination <br />infrastructure, can provide critical information to determine whether the legal and aging network as a whole is <br />reaching the targeted population. <br />MRM <br />Targeting is critical to the provision of impactful, meaningful legal services. Targeting allows Title IIIB legal <br />services providers to comply with the OAA's requirements for targeting older adults, without using means testing <br />to limit eligibility. Working cooperatively, legal services providers, Legal Assistance Developers, state units on <br />aging, and AAAs can appropriately target services to ensure that those services reach those older adults with the <br />greatest social and economic needs. <br />Further technical assistance is available for attorneys and aging network professionals seeking more <br />information to help older adults and improve the legal services delivery system. Contact NCLER at <br />ConsultNCLEROad.lihs.gov. <br />This Issue Brief was supported by a contract with the National Center on Law and Elder Rights, contract number <br />HHSP233201650076A, fi-om the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human <br />Services, Washington, D. C. 20201. <br />Issue Brief <br />