Louisville Bar Foundation Inc Endowment Fund

PURPOSE: Veterans Legal Assistance Program: Legal Aid Society has a long tradition of serving the civil needs of low-income individuals and families in Metro Louisville. It has targeted its services in recent years to assist veterans with civil legal needs relating to their service or impacting their ability to lead healthy and stable civilian lives. LBF funds will support a medical-legal partnership (MLP) with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Robley Rex VA Medical Center (Louisville VAMC), and the University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (Brandeis School of Law). This strategic partnership brings attorneys and law students together with Louisville VAMC medical professionals, integrating legal assistance into healthcare services to address socio-economic determinants that are negatively impacting the health and wellbeing of low-income veterans

PURPOSE: 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.

PURPOSE: Technology for West Louisville Office: In 2022, Legal Aid Society will expand its presence and services in West Louisville by establishing a neighborhood office at the Goodwill Opportunity Campus. The neighborhood office will bring poverty-law expertise and community-development together by providing individual legal representation to West Louisville residents and connecting with grassroots, aspiring nonprofit organizations who are working in the area to assist these organizations in community development and identify the legal avenues and solutions available to them to promote long-term change. The LBF grant will fund the purchase of technology to equip the West Louisville office.

PURPOSE: 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.

PURPOSE: Child Advocacy Center: The Child Advocacy Center at the Family and Children's Place is the only facility of its kind in Kentucky providing services to child victims up to age 17 with compassionate, coordinated intervention and investigation of child sex abuse. The LBF grant will be used to pay expenses for a highly trained forensic interviewer to record a child's testimony and for lab kits used to gather and preserve evidence for later use at trial in prosecuting child sexual offenses.

PURPOSE: Printing Marketing of "My Mom, the Lawyer": 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 printing and marketing of "My Mom, the Lawyer" - a book written and designed to help children understand the legal profession and varied roles that mothers play within the profession.