Grant Database

Kinship Care CLE and Mentoring Training: To provide CLE to attorneys to educate and train them to provide legal and mentoring assistance to relative caregivers. Free only if attorney agrees to take one pro bono case. Otherwise CLE fee will go back to support program.

Law and Government in High School: To support the county’s first high school program offering student exploration of careers in law through bar members assisting young people as they make important career decisions regarding the development, interpretation and practice of law.

Basic Legal Seminars and Legal Research: Through seven seminars/workshops provide basic understanding of several aspects of the law to an anticipated 100 elderly and low and middle-income residents and expose residents to the resources available at the Marion County Law Library.

Family Visitation Center: Funding to assist in the bar association’s efforts to establish a visitation center for Nassau county parents subject to court-ordered supervised visitation.

Electronic Fieldtrip: To produce an “electronic fieldtrip” in collaboration with the Education Network (Palm Beach County School system) and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County to educate students and the general public about their rights and responsibilities of citizenship with focus on the judicial and corrections system.

Civics and Law in Education Program: To bring civics and law back into the educational system in Sarasota County through a magazine written by volunteer Sarasota County Bar and YLD members and distributed free to approximately 40,000 students in collaboration with Sarasota County School System and local newspaper

Professional Women’s Exchange: To bring professional women together to raise awareness of specific community service needs related to women/families – a network to help address those needs. The 2009-10 program will focus on helping transition women from public support to work, but this network, would serve as a permanent vehicle to raise money annually for projects.

Pro Bono Initiative: Members will volunteer translation assistance to Spanish-speaking pro se family law litigants who attend “Family Forms Clinics” at the George Edgecomb Courthouse in Tampa.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Jump Off: A College Recruitment Event: To plan and execute their annual Jump Off college recruiting event for high school students from Polk, Hardee and Highlands counties to learn about Florida’s four historically black institutions of higher education, meet with recruiters and receive financial aid information targeted primarily to minority and low income students.

Historic Black Church Project: Provide multi-disciplinary resources in education, law, and social services to under-served communities through: 1) rights education seminars and 2) legal referrals for pro bono legal assistance.

Space Coast Community Law Academy: A free weekly service on legal seminars to educate the community on current important legal subjects such as foreclosure, bankruptcy, social disability, employment law, landlord and tenant and consumer law/small claims.

US Citizenship and Temporary Protective Status Drive: providing free assistance to eligible individuals to complete the US citizenship application and temporary protective status.

Community Outreach Fair: Host an event to foster relationships between non-profit organizations and professionals in the Central Florida community.

The Red Door Project: To raise awareness of domestic violence within the LGBT community and how domestic violence affects their lives; provide information about legal and therapeutic remedies and train local law enforcement officers on how to address the difficult and complex issue of same-sex domestic violence.

Family Law Assistance Program: To provide assistance to pro se litigants in family law cases. Local law students, paralegals and attorneys will offer assistance on the completion of pre-approved family law pleading forms. Staff members of the Collier County Bar Association will coordinate volunteers and set appointments for members of the public seeking assistance.

Legal Defense for Women Denied Fair Parole Hearings: Legal defense for women prisoners denied fair hearings by the State of Florida Parole Board.

Know Your Rights Educations and Outreach Campaign: Two community forums dealing with hot button issues affecting the African American and Caribbean communities as well as the development of a “Know Your Rights” guide on issues featured in the forum. A special workshop will be held for tenants of Villa Franciscan apartments–a subsidized housing development for seniors with topics including identity theft, landlord tenant, and consumer law issues.

Muslim Community Outreach: Outreach to the non-attorney Muslim community to educate them about their legal rights and educate them about the legal process in the State of Florida.

Community outreach and education on Florida’s Alien Land Law.

Community Legal Education: Bi-monthly radio program in Creole broadcast in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties to enhance public awareness about the consequences of the Unlicensed Practice of Law and how to avoid being victimized by such practices which are provided mainly in immigration, family and foreclosure/loan modifications.