Legal Aid of Western Missouri held their Birthday Party with a Purpose on October 17th at the Boulevard Brewing Company. More than 120 supporters, community leaders, staff members, and volunteer attorneys gathered to celebrate six decades of providing legal services to vulnterable individuals with low incomes. For the past 60 years, Legal Aid has been…
THANK YOU PRO BONO ATTORNEYS During this season of gratitude, we want to take this opportunity to let you know you’re appreciated. Although your extraordinary gift of service means more than words can express, we can say: it is because of you that problems have been solved, it is because of you that lives have been changed, and…
Download Media Release Legal Aid of Western Missouri has selected Alicia M. Johnson as its new Executive Director. Johnson assumed the role Aug. 18, 2021. Johnson first joined Legal Aid in 2010 and has served as the Deputy Executive Director for the past seven years. In the Deputy Executive Director role, Johnson oversaw the Central…
Looking back, 2020 seems like a blur – one crisis after another. But through it all, you were there providing encouragement, volunteering, and giving. Thanks to you, we were able to get justice for more than 10,000 individuals and children in our community. You can read all about it in our 2020 annual report.
Let’s go steady! You know, we’ve been friends for a while now and it’s clear that we work really well together. What if we took this thing to the next level? As a member of our monthly donor community, HEROES OF JUSTICE, we could work together every single month to advance justice, promote change, and…
It’s National Pro Bono Week! Legal Aid of Western Missouri and its Volunteer Attorney Project want to take this opportunity to thank all our attorney volunteers for their dedication to providing pro bono services and applaud their outstanding contributions. Last year alone, they donated more than 6,000 hours of legal services. From our solo practitioners…
We invite you to become a Hero of Justice (monthly donor). Monthly giving is the simplest, most effective way for you to support our work. Timely and predictable, monthly gifts allow us to accurately budget for the resources we need to accomplish specific tasks and goals. The more monthly donors we have, the more dollars…
The American Association of Law Libraries recently announced winners of their 2020 Awards Program, and University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law, Leon E. Bloch Law Library, and Legal Aid of Western Missouri received the Excellence in Community Engagement Award for our Self-Help Law Clinic. The Self-Help Law Clinic opened last April, as a…
Our 2019 Annual Report contains real stories about actual clients — and their spirit and determination is inspiring. But we didn’t do it alone. Your support is the fuel that drives our program and makes it possible for us to serve as many low-income and at-risk Missourians as we do. Thank you. A number of…
I wanted to reach out to our Legal Aid community and share how we are responding during the COVID-19 outbreak. As you know, these are confusing, anxiety-filled, and uncertain times for all of us. But this doesn’t mean the important legal services we provide have stopped. We remain dedicated to helping individuals and families during…