2012 Kentucky Bar Foundation Grants
$203,000 in Grant Money Awarded
Organization | Program | Amount |
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Access To Justice Foundation | Medical-legal partnership at UK Children’s Hospital to provide legal assistance to low-income children and their families | $15,000 |
CASA of the Heartland | Program that involves court-appointed volunteers who advocate for children in the Family Court system due to abuse or neglect | $15,000 |
Chrysalis House, Inc. | Program to help women dealing with substance abuse resolve unmet legal issues which hinder their recovery | $15,000 |
Doctors & Lawyers For Kids | Medical-legal partnership at the University of Louisville Children & Youth Clinic to address various legal needs that impact the health of children from low-income families | $15,000 |
Family & Children’s Place | Providing financial support to help operate the Child Advocacy Center and Visitation Center offering services pertaining to child sexual abuse and to provide supervised visitation that has been court ordered | $10,000 |
Kentucky Equal Justice Center | Citizenship project to help legal immigrants obtain citizenship by assisting them through the required process | $9,000 |
Kentucky Legal Education Opportunity (KLEO) Program Summer Institute | Program designed to increase the number of law school graduates from historically under-represented students attending the Commonwealth’s three public law schools | $15,000 |
Legal Aid Society, Inc. | Assist with funding a pilot project created by the Administrative Office of the Courts to address court needs of veterans who are suffering from substance abuse or mental health problems | $25,000 |
McCracken County Bar Association | Help fund a partnership between the McCracken County Bar and the McCracken Family Court to conduct a monthly clinic designed to assist indigent persons with pro se divorce proceedings, general domestic relations issues, and mediation services | $10,000 |
Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, Inc. | Fund a regional training program to be conducted in Bowling Green and Paducah involving various professionals to improve collaborative approaches to child abuse and neglect cases that come before the courts | $12,000 |
Survive and Thrive Foundation, Inc. | Help financially support a three-week summer program to aid at-risk children who are victims of abuse and neglect | $15,000 |
CARE (Credit Abuse Resistance Education) Programs | Statewide CARE Financial Literacy Programs | $28,000 |
KBF Scholarship | Louis D. Brandeis School of Law | $5,000 |
KBF Scholarship | Salmon P. Chase College of Law | $5,000 |
KBF Scholarship | University of Kentucky College of Law | $5,000 |
KBA Distinguished Judge Award - Judge Denise G. Clayton, Louisville | Jefferson County Commission on Racial Fairness | $2,000 |
KBA Distinguished Lawyer Award - Charles E. Moore, Owensboro | Louis D. Brandeis School of Law/KLEO Scholarships Program | $2,000 |