Monday, February 16, 11:24 AM EST

By Kathy Para, The JBA Pro Bono Committee Chair

Florida Coastal alumni attorneys, faculty and law students gathered Feb. 7 to assist senior patients at the MCCI Dunn Avenue Clinic.

The Florida Coastal pro bono team committed to staffing the event and serving patients after the event, as well.

Matching the need for advance directives with a group of willing volunteers means that more area senior citizens will have the support of people they trust as they manage their health, housing and financial matters.

The advance directives for seniors project is presented in three segments. In the first segment, alumna Debbie Lee-Clark spoke at the MCCI Clinic on Dunn Avenue.

Senior citizens gathered to hear her describe the purposes of each of these advance directive documents: durable power of attorney, designation of health care surrogate, designation of pre-need guardian and living will.

Seniors who wanted to sign up to have the documents created worked with Shondria Jennings, the activities coordinator at the clinic, to schedule a time to meet with an attorney Feb. 7.

Document creation at a single event is the second segment of the project. On that day, nine senior citizens completed their advance directives documents.

The third segment of the project provides assistance for seniors who were not able to attend the Saturday event but indicated they would like to have the service.

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