About Us - Our History
 West Virginia Senior Legal Aid began in 1967 at North Central West Virginia Legal Aid Society (NCWVLAS). NCWVLAS was a traditional poverty law program, providing attorneys to represent poor West Virginians in legal crisis and other important cases. NCWVLAS covered an 11 county region in north central WV, cooperating with programs covering other areas of the state such as Appalchian Research and Defense Fund, Charleston Legal Aid Society, and the West Virginia Legal Services Plan. As the federal funding for legal services nationwide came under attack in 1994, NCWVLAS assumed the role of providing services exclusively to needy senior West Virginians throughout the entire state. We changed our name to reflect our dedication to our state's elderly in 1999, becoming West Virginia Senior Legal Aid.
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