Our staff’s commitment and flexibility allow us to evolve and adapt to our clients’ changing needs. As a result, Legal Aid continues to develop innovative partnerships and programs designed to concentrate legal services in areas of particular need in our client community.
- Access to Justice in Rural Service Areas (St. Joseph, Warrensburg, and Joplin)
- Advocates for Family Health
- Guardianships for minors and incapacitated adults\Justice in the Halls (Tenant Legal Help Clinic)
- Justice in the Schools (KCPS, Center, Guadalupe Centers Charter Schools, Hogan Prep, and Hickman Mills)
- Legal Aid in the Library
- Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
- Medical Legal Partnership with Kansas City CARE Clinic
- Mental Healthcare Access Project
- Migrant Farmworkers Project
- Protecting Immigrant Families Project (protective orders)
- Right to Counsel
- Urban Homesteading Program
Specialty Court Programs with Kansas City Municipal Court:
- Drug Court
- Mental Health Court
- Reinstatement Court
- Veterans’ Treatment Court
Volunteer Attorney Project Special Projects:
- Adopt-A-Neighborhood Project
- Justice in the Schools (Jackson County)
- Pro Bono Program for Bankruptcy Litigation
- Pro Se Dissolution of Marriage Clinics
- Second Season at Law Project
- Transactional Law Project
- UMKC -Legal Aid of Western Missouri Self-Help Law Clinic
- Warrent Relief Project