The program has, to date, assisted some 1,000 residents of the City of Brotherly Love to create wills.
Since 2022, Philadelphia’s Will Power Program has connected residents like 72-year-old Vendetta Stephens to the city’s Community Legal Services (CLS) through local community partners, like Stephens’ church, which initially put her on the path to connect with the program which provided her and other low-income Philadelphians with free estate planning services.
According to WHYY, the program has, to date, assisted some 1,000 residents of the City of Brotherly Love to create wills and other end-of-life documents. The experience, according to Stephens, has transformed the way she formerly conceived of the idea of a will…