The Illinois Bar Foundation will continue
to fund charitable and educational programs that promote public understanding
of the law and improve the administration of justice.
Administer
Justice West Dundee Kane County
$5,000 TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES to low-income residents of Kane
County. Administer Justice promotes justice through a comprehensive
program of educational outreach, legal assistance, financial counseling
and conflict resolution services.
Big Brothers
Big Sisters of Southwestern IL Belleville St. Clair County
$5,000 FOR ITS AMACHI MENTORING PROGRAM. This program provides mentors
to 120 children of incarcerated parents.
Boy Scouts
of America - Abraham Lincoln Council Springfield Sangamon County
$1,000 FOR ITS LAW EXPLORER PROGRAM. Working with the Sangamon County
State's Attorney's Office, these teens participate in a National Moot
Court Competition.
The Branch
Family Institute Evergreen Park Cook County
$1,500 TO ENHANCE ITS SUPERVISED VISITATION AND SAFE EXCHANGE SERVICES
to families by providing supervised visitation services between children
and their non-custodial parents without jeopardizing the safety of the
children on the South side of Chicago.
Cabrini Green
Legal Aid Clinic Chicago Cook County
$2,500 FOR ITS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM. CGLA provides free legal services
in the areas of housing, family and criminal law to low-income people
in the City of Chicago.
CARPLS Chicago
Cook County
$15,000 FOR A PART TIME HOTLINE ATTORNEY. CARPLS legal assistance hotline
provides low income clients with immediate access to legal advice, referrals
and brief services and streamlines the legal aid system in Cook County.
CARPLS attorneys resolve more than 65% of its cases without the need
for further referral, alleviating the burden on traditional legal aid
programs designed to provide in-court representation.
Chicago Children's
Advocacy Center Chicago Cook County
$2,000 FOR ITS COURT ADVOCACY PROGRAM. CCAC provides support to Chicago's
child abuse victims and their families in a child-friendly environment.
Court advocates explain the legal process to families, update families
on their case status and court dates, and help families prepare for
being in court and for their testimony.
Chicago Coalition
for the Homeless Chicago Cook County
$5,000 FOR THE LAW PROJECT'S EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE. The Educational
Rights Initiative works to ensure that homeless children and teens are
not wrongly barred from enrolling in and attending public school.
Children First
Foundation Belleville St Clair County
$5,000 FOR ITS KIDS HELPING KIDS PROGRAM in St. Clair County. This program
provides group counseling services targeted to children and families
of divorce and separation.
Children's
Action Network, NFP Quincy Adams, Brown, Cass, Hancock, Pike and Schuyler
Counties
$4,000 FOR ITS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER. The Children's Advocacy Center
program provides a child-friendly, neutral environment where the child
victim of sexual abuse or serious physical abuse and their non-offending
family meet with a team of professionals for the purpose of investigation.
The CAC helps bridge the gap between social services, law enforcement
and the court system.
Children's
Home & Aid Society of Illinois Bloomington McLean County
$6,000 TO BUILD A CHILDREN'S WAITING ROOM in the McLean County Law &
Justice Center. This waiting room will provide a secure, comfortable
and protected environment for children who are due to testify in court
or are waiting for their parents to finish legal proceedings.
The Crisis
Center for South Suburbia Tinley Park Cook County
$3,000 FOR ITS COURT ADVOCACY PROGRAM. The purpose of the program is
to assist victims of domestic violence with the process of obtaining
Orders of Protection in the 5th and 6th Municipal District Courts.
Court Appointed
Special Advocate (CASA)
$41,300 TO CASA PROGRAMS in Champaign, Cook, DuPage, Franklin, Fulton,
Jersey, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, LaSalle, Lee/Carroll, McLean, St. Clair/Monroe,
Whiteside and Will Counties.
CASAs are trained community volunteers appointed by a juvenile or family
court judge to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected
children who are brought before the court.
Center for
Disability & Elder Law Chicago Cook County
$3,000 TO UPGRADE ITS TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE. CDEL provides free
legal services to the elderly and persons with disabilities through
a vast network of volunteer attorneys, paralegals, law students, and
social work students located throughout the Chicago area.
Center for
the Prevention of Abuse Peoria Tazewell County
$8,500 FOR A PART TIME COURT ADVOCATE in Tazewell County to provide
assistance to victims of violence seeking Orders of Protection though
the local court system.
Centro Romero
Chicago Cook County
$3,000 FOR ITS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM. Centro Romero is a community-based
organization on Chicago's North Side that serves Spanish-speaking immigrants
and refugees. The legal services program's primary goal is to assist
persons in becoming Lawful Permanent Residents and United States citizens.
Chicago Metropolis
2020 Chicago Statewide
$2,500 FOR THE CLEAR INITIATIVE. The goal of CLEAR (Criminal Law Edit,
Alignment and Reform) is to create a politically viable process by which
to review the entire criminal code, paying particular attention to changes
made through legislation over the past 40 years and to rework the code
to make it more readable, understandable, consistent and just.
Chicago Volunteer
Legal Services Foundation Chicago Cook County
$5,000 FOR ITS GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM in Probate Court in Cook County.
As GAL, CVLS attorneys represent minors in contested custody disputes
and make sure they are protected by insuring that they are in school,
receiving necessary social and medical services and not subjected to
abuse or neglect.
DuPage Legal
Assistance Foundation Wheaton DuPage County
$3,000 TO FURNISH NEW LEGAL CLINIC SPACE in the DuPage County Courthouse.
DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation is dedicated to providing the highest
level of legal representation possible to the working poor and indigent
residents of DuPage County and the 18th Judicial Circuit.
Evanston Community
Defender Office, Inc. Evanston Cook County
$5,000 TO SUPPORT ITS LEGAL SERVICE PROGRAM. The Evanston Community
Defender provides an accessible, community based legal service program,
which integrates the practices of law and social work services for the
benefit of low income youth age 21 and younger and their families who
have legal matters in the juvenile welfare/school system and adult criminal
court.
Family Rescue
Chicago Cook County
$2,000 FOR ITS COURT ADVOCACY PROGRAM. The Court Advocacy Program provides
legal advocacy and assistance in obtaining Orders of Protection to 1,000
victims of domestic violence and provides roll call trainings to the
Chicago Police Department officers in the districts in serves.
First Defense
Legal Aid Chicago Cook County
$3,000 FOR LEGAL SERVICES. First Defense is the first and only program
in the country offering around the clock, free legal representation
to anyone in Chicago arrested or questioned by law enforcement agents.
Attorneys are dispatched to protect a client's Fifth Amendment right
to remain silent and Sixth Amendment right to counsel until a public
defender can be appointed.
Friends of
Battered Women and Their Children Chicago Cook County
$2,500 TO FUND ITS FREE LEGAL CLINIC. The free legal clinic will meet
bimonthly for two hours, offering legal assistance and support to victims
of domestic violence with family law issues.
Genesis House
Chicago Cook County
$5,000 TO FUND ITS COURT ADVOCACY PROGRAM. The Court Advocacy staff
encourages judges to mandate women incarcerated for prostitution to
attend Genesis House in an effort to secure them the best possible options
for effective rehabilitation. Genesis House reaches thousands of women
involved in prostitution each year and gives them the rehabilitative
services they need to permanently exit prostitution and the criminal
justice system. These valuable resources help women in prostitution
leave abusive lifestyles that often lead to brutality, disease and sexual
assault.
Guardianship
Referral & Services Decatur Macon County
$2,500 FOR OUTREACH SERVICES IN MACON COUNTY. Guardianship Referral
& Services assesses, counsels and determines the need for guardianship
for disabled adults who no longer have the ability to make sound judgments
on their own behalf.
Henry County
Children's Advocacy Center Cambridge Henry, Marshall, Putnam & Stark
Counties
$1,500 TO TRAIN PROFESSIONALS involved with the investigation, prosecution
and service delivery to child sexual abuse victims and their families.
The mission of the Advocacy Center is to lessen the traumatization of
child abuse victims by providing a coordinated approach in a child-friendly
environment, which will assist with the successful prosecution of the
offender, ultimately lessening the rate of child abuse in the community.
Illinois Equal
Justice Foundation Chicago Statewide
$10,000 TO SUPPORT A PUBLIC INFORMATION CAMPAIGN to support the expansion
of funding for civil legal services by the State of Illinois. Currently,
Illinois is last among the ten most populous states in funding for civil
legal services. Former Senate President Phil Rock and former Governor
James R. Thompson lead this effort.
Illinois Judges
Association Chicago Statewide
$5,000 FOR THE JUDICIAL INTERN OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM. This program offers
a $1,500 stipend for an 8-week summer internship for first or second
year minority or financial disadvantaged law students who want to do
legal research and writing for state judges in Illinois.
ISBA Future
of the Profession Conference Springfield Statewide
$10,000 FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSION CONFERENCE. This grant provides
support for a 2-day conference on the future of the legal profession
held during the mid-year meeting of the ISBA during December 2004.
John Howard
Association Chicago Statewide
$2,500 TO SUPPORT THE JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM INITIATIVE. John Howard
Association has a 103-year history of working toward fair and effective
correctional programs that are responsive to the needs of both offenders
and the general community. JJRI involves an expanded, intensified and
refined monitoring protocol for the visitation of 25 juvenile detention
and correctional facilities in Illinois and advocacy efforts to create
alternatives to detention for youth and increasing the availability
and range of community-based correctional programming for incarcerated
youth.
Land of Lincoln
Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc. East St. Louis 65 Counties in So.
IL
$10,000 FOR A CAPITAL CAMPAIGN PLAN to fund the purchase a new building.
Land of Lincoln provides free, civil legal assistance to low-income
persons and senior citizens in 65 counties in Southern and Central Illinois
through 8 branch offices and a centralized Legal Advice and Referral
Center.
Latinos Progresando
Chicago Cook County
$5,000 TO SUPPORT ITS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM. Based in Pilsen, Latinos
Progresando's mission is to serve legal immigrants through high quality,
low-cost legal immigration services, community education and engagement
and advocacy around policy that affects immigrants.
Lawrence Hall
Youth Services Chicago Cook County
$2,000 FOR ITS PEER JURY PROGRAM, a restorative justice program that
gives youth the opportunity to determine the consequences of their peers'
negative behaviors.
Midwest Workers
Association Chicago Cook County
$5,000 FOR ITS LEGAL ADVICE, EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY BENEFIT DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM. MWA is a grassroots organization providing mutual aid and advocacy
for and by the lowest-paid workers of Chicago.
Pro Bono Advocates
Chicago Cook County
$3,000 TO SUPPORT LEGAL SERVICES to low-income Cook County residents
who have been subjected to domestic violence to help them achieve safety
from abusive relationships.
Public Interest
Law Initiative Chicago Northern Illinois
$2,000 FOR ITS PRO BONO INITIATIVE. PBI increases pro bono opportunities
for transactional attorneys by expanding the new non-profit legal audit
program and by expanding the business clinics which provide legal advice
for micro entrepreneurs.
Sarah's Inn
Oak Park Cook County
$3,500 TO FUND THE COURT ADVOCACY PROGRAM which helps victims of domestic
violence access legal protections; educates criminal justice personnel
to respond in a safe, timely, and supportive manner to victims' needs;
and aids in bringing to justice perpetrators of domestic violence.
Sargent Shriver
National Center on Poverty Law Chicago Statewide
$5,000 FOR THE POVERTY LAW INFORMATION NET. The Shriver Center builds
the capacity of lawyers and other advocates for clients in poverty by
synthesizing legal advocacy, research and substantive and skill training
and distributing such information through the Clearinghouse Review and
its Poverty Law Library.
Special Education
Advocacy Center Palatine Cook and collar counties
$5,000 TO PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION to low-income parents of children
with disabilities seeking to obtain appropriate education and early
intervention services for their children.
Will County
Legal Assistance Program Joliet Will County
$3,000 FOR THE GUARDIAN AD LITEM PROGRAM, providing a staff attorney
who will represent children in custody and guardianship cases involving
domestic violence.
Winnebago County
Bar Association Rockford Winnebago County
$2,500 FOR TRAINING COSTS FOR ITS SMALL CLAIMS MEDIATION PROJECT. This
project seeks to provide free mediation services to pro se litigants
in small claims cases ($5,000 or less in dispute) filed in the Circuit
Court of Winnebago County.
World Relief
Chicago Cook County
$3,000 TO ITS IMMIGRANT LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM. ILS provides legal services
and citizenship preparation to more than 2500 low-income immigrants
each year. In the present context of complex and punitive immigration
laws, the services provided by ILS fill a void in Chicago's social service
community.
Youth Service
Bureau of Rock Island County Moline Rock Island County
$2,000 TO CONDUCT A TEEN COURT/PEER JUSTICE PROGRAM. The Peer Justice
Program serves as an intervention program designed to increase accountability
among teen offenders and to provide a mechanism for the early identification
and referral of high-risk youth to appropriate treatment and competency
development programs.
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