Louisville Bar Foundation Inc

Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc

Immigration Legal Services - Kentucky Refugee Ministries provides legal services to immigrants who have resettled in the Louisville area. Many of these immigrants need to file applications with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for permanent residence status or to petition for asylum. In recent years, the number of requests for legal assistance far exceeded staff capacity, creating backlogs and waiting lists. The LBF grant will provide funds for KRM to strategically build staff capacity to meet this increased need and reduce the backlog and wait time. The grant also provides partial fee subsidies for immigrants who cannot afford to pay the entire costs of preparing and filing these documents.

• 2023

Legal Aid Society

Violence Intervention and Prevention Project - Legal Aid Society has a long tradition of serving the civil legal needs of low-income individuals and families in Metro Louisville. Its Violence Intervention and Prevention is a new program to provide legal information and representation to interrupt and redress violent crime in Metro Louisville. It will offer direct civil legal services to low-income survivors of violent injury and work to eliminate barriers these survivors face when seeking legal assistance and victim's rights enforcement. LBF funds will serve as a "match" to leverage other funds for staffing this new program.

• 2023

Legal Aid Society

Doctors & Lawyers for Kids - Doctors & Lawyers for Kids is a collaborative effort of the Legal Aid Society, LBA, U of L Pediatrics, and Family Health Centers that assists children from low-income families by training healthcare providers to recognize unmet legal needs that affect patient health and by having free legal services available to families in need. LBF funds will be used to support services to the Smoketown Family Wellness Center and other pediatric settings.

• 2023

Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc

Fee Waiver Program - Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services helps low-income refugees and immigrants living in Kentucky obtain legal assistance. The LBF grant will allow refugees and immigrants solve immigration and/or employment status issues so to achieve or maintain financial stability and economic independence.

• 2023

University of Louisville Ackerson Law Clinic

Ackerson Law Clinic Mediation Program - The Ackerson Law Clinic at the University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law offers students who have completed initial course requirements the opportunity for practical experience by representing clients under the supervision of clinical instructors. The Mediation Program allows students to apply their mediation skills to assist low-income clients on issues which traditionally complicate and delay judicial resolution of Family Court disputes - custody, visitation, child support. LBF funds support and will help expand this program designed to help the underserved population, to improve the efficiency of Family Courts, and to enhance the practical skills of law students.

• 2023

La Casita Center

Legal Outreach and Clinic Services - In addition to the numerous social, nutritional, and cultural programs La Casita Center provides in the Latino immigrant community, it specifically conducts outreach to Latina women and families in need of legal services. Through its targeted outreach and legal clinics, participants receive help on understanding the legal system, immigration issues, family law matters and other legal problems. LBF funds will support the Center's targeted outreach to the Latino community and the development of a pro bono attorney panel to assist program participants in understanding legal problems and how to solve them.

• 2023

Access Justice

Expungement Clinics - Since 2014, Access Justice has provided free legal services through weekly or monthly clinics to low-income individuals and families throughout metro Louisville. With a network of over forty volunteer attorneys and with an office in the Portland neighborhood. Access Justice's legal clinics educate participants on how to resolve a broad range of legal problems. LBF's grant will provide funds to allow Access Justice to reach and serve individuals in need of expungements.

• 2023

Kentucky to the World Inc

Film Documentary on Central High School's Street Law Program - The Central High School Law and Government Program has been a model "Street Law" program and has successfully educated hundreds of students about the role of law and inspired many to pursue legal careers. A grant from the LBF, along with charitable contributions from lawyers and law firms in Kentucky, will help fund a film documentary that celebrates the success of this program and shows why such programs are valuable in creating diversity in the legal profession. Kentucky to the World, a non-profit organization focused on elevating the success stores of people and programs in the Commonwealth, serves as the fiscal agent for this film production.

• 2023

CASA of the River Region

Advocacy Academy - CASA provides advocacy services to children with active cases in Family Court. To increase the number of volunteer advocates, CASA must continually train and provide education. The LBF grant will support CASA's "Advocacy Academy" program and increase it's number of trainings to boost volunteers' advocacy skillset and the understanding of interrelated child welfare, justice and medical systems.

• 2023

Mother's Esquire

Teaching Children about Legal Jobs - Mothers Esquire is a local non-profit with a national network of over 7,500 members advocating for policies that promote gender equity in the legal profession and practices that encourage retention of attorney talent during caregiving years. LBF funds will support the development and implementation of a school curriculum that teaches about the diverse roles and responsibilities of lawyers in society, using the popular children's book, "My Mom, the Layer, " as the basis of lesson plans. The curriculum will be accessible online via the Mothers Esquire website and will be include age-appropriate content for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and students in grades 1-5.

• 2023