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Sarasota News Leader September 6, 2013 Page 65 CONA TO PRESENT FORECLOSURE MESS UPDATE ON SEPT. 9 Last year the Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Associations Inc. (CONA) presented Foreclosure Mess 101, a standing-room-only event featuring April Charney and Matt Weidner, "two attorneys at the forefront of the foreclosure mess," a CONA news release says. • New Florida foreclosure laws. Charney is a consumer protection attorney "whose foreclosure defense work became a specialty for which she has garnered acclaim," the release points out. From 2004 until early last year, Charney worked as a senior staff attorney in the consumer law unit at JacksonOn Sept. 9, CONA will present Foreclosure ville Area Legal Aid. She is a member of the Mess 101: an update by April Charney cov- National Association of Consumer Advocates, ering the following topics: the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and a graduate of Max Gard• "Nothing-backed" securities and the failure ner's bankruptcy boot camp, the news release of loan ownership. notes. • Risk of municipal bankruptcy presented by A 1980 graduate of the University of Miami unfunded pension obligations. School of Law, Charney practiced law in Sara• The urgent need for Florida counties and sota between 1991 and 2003 as a managing cities to ramp up efforts to convert the fail- and staff attorney with Gulfcoast Legal Serure of loans. vices. • An update on home loan defaults of 30 and CONA meetings are free and open to the 90 days and bank "walkaways." public as well as members of the 72 associations and the individuals the organization • Avoiding the unlicensed practice of law represents. while coping with foreclosure. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Sara• Systemic ongoing fraud in residential foresota Garden Club, located at 1131 Boulevard closure litigation in Sarasota County. of the Arts in Sarasota, at the intersection of • Problems and potential of properties under Tamiami Trail (south of the Municipal Auditorium). Parking is reached from Van Wezel Way. water in debt-to-value ratios. SALVATION ARMY REOPENS EMERGENCY FAMILY DORM The Salvation Army of Sarasota has announced that it reopened its Emergency Family Dorm on Aug. 30 at its Tenth Street complex, providing "five safe, secure rooms for families experiencing homeless episodes." staff will work with a network of social workers throughout the Sarasota County School District to help identify school-age children whose families may be at risk for homelessness, a news release says. Additionally, Maj. Ethan Frizzell reported that "The most cost-effective homeless service we through an expanded partnership with the can provide is helping families stay in their YMCA, The Salvation Army's social service homes," Frizzell pointed out in the release.