Council in January 1988 (Executive Order
01.01.1988.02).
The Council advises the Governor on develop-
ing a comprehensive State policy on food and nutri-
tion and coordinating federal, State, local and
private programs to prevent malnutrition and poor
dietary habits. The Council reviews existing
programs to identify deficiencies and promotes a
public/private partnership to identify and address
the nutritional needs of Marylanders.
The Council's fourteen members are appointed
to two-year terms by the Governor. Two represent
local government, one represents the University of
Maryland Cooperative Extension Service, and five
are individuals with interest or expertise in nutri-
tional matters. The Senate President designates a
member of the Senate and the House Speaker a
member of the House of Delegates as Council
members. Four ex officio members include repre-
sentives of the Departments of Human Resources,
Health and Mental Hygiene, and Education, and
the Office on Aging. Staff is provided by the
Department of Human Resources and the State
Department of Education.

LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM

Vacancy, Director

311 W Saratoga St.
Baltimore, MD 21201 333-0087

The Legal Services Program, then known as
Judicare, was created in 1971. It helps low-income
persons obtain civil legal services.
Through a pro bono supplementation program,
the Legal Services Program encourages private at-
torneys to take pro bono cases by paying $30 an
hour, without a cap, to attorneys who have taken a
case from a participating pro bono program and
have put in an initial 20 hours of volunteer time on
that particular case. Supplementation is paid after
the attorney has both pur in the 20 hours of pro
bono time and requested coverage under the sup-
plementation program.
The Legal Services Program contracts with the
Legal Aid Bureau and the Maryland Disability Law
Center to represent children in Child in Need of
Assistance (CINA) cases and, also with the Center,
to represent persons subject to Adult Protective
Services proceedings.
Court-appointed attorneys are paid by the Pro-
gram to represent children in CINA and other
juvenile causes in which the Department of Human
Resources is involved, CINA parents in termination
of parental rights proceedings, and persons subject
to Adult Protective Services proceedings.
With the Maryland Legal Services Corporation
the Program has a contract that funnels to the
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State support provided by the Maryland Legal Ser-
vices Corporation Act.

MARYLAND OFFICE OF REFUGEE
AFFAIRS
Frank Bien, Director

311 W Saratoga St.
Baltimore, MD 21201 333-1863

The Maryland Office of Refugee Affairs was
established in 1980 by the Department. The Office
helps refugees residing in Maryland to become
economically and socially self-sufficient. It provides
employment services, English language and voca-
tional training, cultural orientation, and other ser-
vices. The Office also administers and implements
the Stare Legalization Impact Assistance Grant
(SLIAG) provisions of the federal Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1986. The federal law
gave illegal aliens an opportunity to apply for am-
nesty and thereafter, if eligible, to receive certain
public health, education and welfare services. The
Grant reimburses allowable costs incurred by the
State and local governments in providing such ser-
vices.

WOMEN'S SERVICES PROGRAM
Susan Fernandez, Director

311 W Saratoga St.
Baltimore, MD 21201 333-0059

The Women's Services Program was created in
1983 by the Department and the Community Ser-
vices Administration. The Program coordinates ser-
vices concerned with battered spouses, displaced
homemakers, rape crisis, shelter for homeless
women, and transitional housing.
The Battered Spouse Program provides services to
spouses who suffered beatings and their children
when they must leave home to safeguard their lives
and welfare. The Program began as a model shelter
in 1971. Through a network of eighteen com-
munity organizations, the Program offers tem-
porary shelter or help in finding shelter, counseling,
information, and referral for the victim, and
rehabilitation for the abuser (Code Family Law
Article, sees. 4-513 through 4-516).
The Displaced Homemakers 'Program was created
as a model program in 1976. In 1979, the model
became a permanent project with statewide focus
(Chapter 339, Acts of 1979). The Program helps
homemakers who are displaced due to the death or
disability of, or divorce, separation, or abandon-
ment by a family member upon whom they
depended for income. A network of twelve com-
munity-based organizations helps displaced
homemakers become self-sufficient through coun-
seling, training, and employment assistance (Code
Family Law Article, sees. 4-601, 4-602).