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The Legal Aid NC Access to Justice Fund impacts all communities
Greatest Needs
Legal Aid of North Carolina is the 3rd largest law firm in the state, with offices in 23 counties, serving all 100 counties.
Our Access to Justice Fund, supported by private firms, attorneys and individuals, businesses, civic groups, and communities of faith, supports underfunded and/or overburdened program needs across the state.
Durham Eviction Diversion Program
The Durham Eviction Diversion Program is a partnership of our Durham office, Duke Law’s Civil Justice Clinic and the Durham Department of Social Services. The program uses tenant education, legal advocacy and rental assistance to prevent evictions and increase housing security for low-income renters in Durham County.
Economic Justice Initiative
The Economic Justice Initiative strives to keep working poor and working families in possession of their homes and home equity. By providing high-quality legal representation in foreclosure actions, the EJI saves homes, preserves credit ratings and strives to make prohibitive the cost of conducting business for unscrupulous brokers and lenders. The EJI also provides community education around home-finance best practices and the dangers of predatory lending.
Farmworker Unit
The Farmworker Unit seeks to ensure that migrant workers are afforded equal opportunity to live and work safely and in accordance with federal, state and international law by protecting and enforcing the employment and civil rights of migrant workers and by protecting and enforcing the contractual and statutory obligations under H2-A worker contracts and other legal rights of H-2A workers.
Innovation Lab
As a dedicated hub for identifying and implementing new solutions for bridging the justice gap, the mission of the Lab is to engage in transformative innovation that improves the delivery of legal services, expands access to justice and addresses inequity in the delivery of legal services in rural areas.
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Medicaid Appeals Technical Team
The Medicaid Appeals Technical Team (MATT), is tasked with serving the legal needs of the 1.7 million Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina who have been enrolled into Prepaid Health Plans (PHPs) during the State’s transition from a fee-for-service model of healthcare delivery to a capitated managed care model.
Medical Legal Partnerships
The Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) project brings together physicians, nurses, social workers, attorneys and paralegals to address social and environmental determinants of poor health that may have a legal remedy, including: substandard housing conditions; domestic violence; food, income, and housing insecurity; improper denials of Medicaid and disability benefits; and failure to provide children with the special educational services to which they are entitled.
Senior Law Project
Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Senior Law Project provides free civil legal help to North Carolinians who are 60 years of age or older with matters including: wills and power of attorney, public benefits, unemployment compensation, housing, abuse and neglect, consumer issues, and wrongful repossession.
The Child's Advocate
The Child’s Advocate is a project of Legal Aid of North Carolina that provides attorneys for children in highly contested private custody cases. We are appointed by judges in family court in Wake and Durham counties to represent children in cases with the following: domestic violence, child abuse or mistreatment, substance abuse or mental instability of a parent, relocation of a parent, or a child with special needs.
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