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  Updated Find Legal Help to include local domestic
                                                       violence shelters and hotlines and COVID-related
                                                       resources and guides.
                                                     Added Civil Legal Navigator button on FLH
                                            o  Create new and maintain existing SRL resource centers
                                                (websites and help desks) and statewide uniform domestic
                                                forms
                                                Set up Google analytics in order to analyze traffic to LSBA-
                                                managed Judicial District Court self-help websites.
                                                SRL & Technology Committees are working on making forms
                                                automated and guided.
                                            o  Develop and expand membership of online modest means

                                                directory
                                                Hosted three free CLEs to attorney members of the Modest
                                                Means Directory. Increased the number of attorneys listed on
                                                the Directory by 15.
                                                     Attended a meeting of the Washington Parish Bar
                                                       Association to encourage participation in the Modest
                                                       Means Online Directory and as volunteers for
                                                       LA.FreeLegalAnswers.org.
                                                     Attorneys listed now increased to 70, with 5700 total
                                                       visitors and 5% increase in views in 2020 versus 2019.
                                                       Directory nominated for Louis M. Brown Award.
                                            o  Update “Becoming an Adult” website
                                                The Children’s Law Committee continues to work on updating
                                                the “Becoming an Adult” guide and website. Plans are
                                                underway to utilize a QR code that will direct users to the
                                                website, rather than printing copies of the guide.
                                       Promote unmet statewide legal needs report recommendations;
                                         Authored Bar Journal article featuring unmet statewide legal needs
                                         report’s recommendations and Economic Impact Study results.
                                         Presented unmet statewide legal needs report findings at the annual
                                         Louisiana Justice Community Conference, October 2019. Findings will
                                         be used in communication planning for the next phase of the JFA
                                         process.
                                       Continue to administer the Legal Innovators for Tomorrow (LIFT)
                                         Program which targets new attorneys interested in focusing a practice
                                         on unmet legal needs;
                                            o  Address domestic violence, disaster and expungement legal
                                                needs
                                            o  Launched Flood Proof program to increase access to legal
                                                representation for people affected by the 2016 flooding in Baton
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