text: During the consolidation process , the Legal Services Corporation technical assistance grants enabled the program to utilize the services of a skilled consultant and facilitator to move the process to conclusion , to send program staff to visit and observe other programs with well respected and technologically sophisticated centralized intake systems , to bring experts to the program to help design a transition to statewide administrative and personnel systems , and helped fund the statewide staff meeting which launched and celebrated the new statewide program .
  
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  Skilled consultants are very expensive to use .