Where The Money Goes
For Fiscal Year 2022-2023
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Click For Panhandle Details Grant Total: $57,500 (4%) -
Click For West Details Grant Total: $29,000 (1%) -
Click For Northeast Details Grant Total: $405,845 (27%) -
Click For Central Details Grant Total: $359,025 (23%) -
Click For Southeast Details Grant Total: $391,181 (26%) -
Click For Valley & Gulf Coast Details Grant Total: $36,000 (2%) -
Click For Statewide Details Grant Total: $259,500 (17%)
Click For Panhandle Region
Grant Total: $57,500 (4%)
Click For Northeast Details
Grant Total: $405,845 (27%)
Click For West Details
Grant Total: $29,000 (1%)
Click For Central Details
Grant Total: $359,025 (23%)
Click For Southeast Details
Grant Total: $391,181 (26%)
Click For Valley & Gulf Coast Detials
Grant Total: $36,000 (2%)
Click For Statewide Details
Grant Total: $259,500 (17%)
Panhandle | ||
| Amarillo Area CASA | To strengthen collaboration and enhance CASA advocacy by providing an increasing number of supportive people in a child's life to positively impact their well-being. | $20,000.00 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of the South Plains | To partially support one Advocacy Coordinator staff position. | $5,000.00 |
| Office of Dispute Resolution for Lubbock County | To collaborate with university faculty and graduate students on materials for judges to promote referrals of high-conflict parents to ODR for supervised visitation services. | $15,000.00 |
| One Voice Home | To provide a specialized camp that is individualized, sensory pleasing, and can assist in building new and healthy memories. | $7,500.00 |
| Regional Crime Victim Crisis Center (RVCC) | To hire an attorney to connect quality legal services to crime victims in west Texas. | $10,000.00 |
| Total Panhandle | $57,500 | |
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Northeast | ||
| ACT - Advocates for Community Transformation | To hire a community advocate to lead the Fort Worth casework and the strategic cultivation of the case docket, client base, and coalition of partners. | $34,485.00 |
| Arlington-Mansfield Area YMCA | To provide youth the opportunity to discuss and debate issues that affect citizens of their state and to propose legislation through experiential civic engagement and democracy. | $16,600.00 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Hill County | To fund a portion of needed equipment to facilitate activities designed to increase understanding, appreciation and respect for our legal system and law enforcement. | $10,000.00 |
| CASA for KIDS | To provide a parenting program in Red River and Delta Counties where there are currently no services like this offered. | $27,645.00 |
| CASA of Johnson County, Inc. | To raise awareness and recruit volunteers to advocate for children in foster care. | $7,000.00 |
| CASA of Tarrant County Inc. | To expand the Collaborative Family Engagement Pilot to improve permanency for foster youth and create a replicable framework for other CASA programs. | $10,000.00 |
| Catholic Charities Dallas | To provide language support to staff attorneys working in removal and asylum cases on behalf of low-income immigrants. | $25,000.00 |
| Catholic Charities-Diocese of Tyler | To offer financial assistance and resources to eligible petitioners filing for naturalization. | $15,000.00 |
| Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center | To support expansion into Baylor Hospital to provide legal advocacy services to help survivors of sexual assault navigate the criminal justice system | $10,000.00 |
| Dallas Children's Advocacy Center | To support the purchase of two smartboards for two forensic interview suites. | $10,000.00 |
| Dallas Urban Debate Alliance | To create a curriculum that teaches middle and high school students how to translate their debate skills into community advocacy. | $6,000.00 |
| DeliverFund | To embed an Intelligence Analyst with Dallas-Fort Worth area Police to hunt human traffickers and coordinate with prosecuting attorneys. | $5,000.00 |
| Denton County Friends of the Family, Inc. | To support the creation of a pro bono/low bono network of private attorneys equipped to provide trauma-informed legal services to victims of crime and their children. | $10,000.00 |
| Family Compass | To successfully transition fathers in the Dallas County Jail back into the lives of their children, creating change that breaks inter-generational cycles. | $15,000.00 |
| For the Sake of One | To provide ongoing in-home support and resources to more biological families through the hiring of an additional staff member. | $15,000.00 |
| Genesis Women's Shelter and Support | To provide expert, pro bono legal counseling to clients undergoing legal battles, including but not limited to protective orders, divorce settlements, and custody battles. | $7,500.00 |
| Grace To Grow dba Grace To Change | To provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment, thereby reducing or eliminating the burden on the judicial system, incarceration, and recidivism. | $20,000.00 |
| Heart of Courage | To provide quarterly free legal services to low income and racially marginalized parents impacted by the Texas Child Welfare System. | $10,000.00 |
| Johnson County Children's Advocacy Center | To unify the Multi-disciplinary(MDT) Team by offering education, training, and team building. | $11,550.00 |
| Justice For Our Neighbors North Central Texas | To provide high-quality, free legal representation to unaccompanied immigrant children in the north and central Texas areas. | $15,000.00 |
| Lone Star CASA | To recruit, train & supervise advocates to offer in-home supportive interventions to families who are being investigated by CPS but whose children remain at home. | $22,315.00 |
| Methodist Justice Ministry | To locate and serve abuser court documents to parties of legal actions. | $5,000.00 |
| Mil Mujeres, Inc. | To increase the level of access to direct legal services for underserved Latina immigrants in Texas particularly women who are survivors of Intimate Partner Violence. | $5,750.00 |
| Multicultural Family Center | To provide legal services to economically disadvantaged immigrants improving their quality of life and empowering community members to live a safer and more beneficial life. | $20,000.00 |
| New Friends New Life | To launch an onsite Legal Barriers Removal Project, clearing criminal histories for women survivors of sex trafficking. | $20,000.00 |
| Opening Doors International Services, Inc. | To assist qualified immigrants recently arrived to the U.S. complete and file their I-589 asylum applications Pro Se, by participating in a volunteer-driven legal clinic. | $10,000.00 |
| Simply Grace | To work with several court programs to help women in transitional living facilities gain access to proper legal services and education. | $5,000.00 |
| The Way Back | To support a continuum of care and strategic reentry programs for women and men through case management/coaching and holistic services leading to self-sufficiency. | $27,000.00 |
| Traffick911 | To secure legal services and cover legal fees for survivors of child sex trafficking as needs emerge throughout the year. | $10,000.00 |
| Total Northeast Texas | $405,845 | |
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West | ||
| Opportunity Center for the Homeless | To provide intensive case management to clients involved in the criminal justice system to prevent re-offending. | $20,000.00 |
| Total West Texas | $20,000 | |
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Central | ||
| A Home Base for Transitioning Foster Youth | To connect former foster youth in the Brazos Valley with a network of resources to address legal barriers they encounter as they work toward independence. | $30,000.00 |
| Austin Bar Association | To create the “Council of Firsts†to determine why it remains groundbreaking for females/minorities to become Bar President and hold other leadership roles. | $15,000.00 |
| Austin Bar Foundation's Veterans Legal Assistance Program | To obtain a cloud-based case management system. | $15,000.00 |
| Austin Classical Guitar | To support daily guitar classes in 5 Texas juvenile justice facilities, which are the only fully accredited arts programs for incarcerated youth in the state. | $10,000.00 |
| Austin Free-Net | To reach and assist more disadvantaged community members through a Digital Navigator program, promoting access to critical technology resources. | $10,000.00 |
| Brazos Interfaith Immigration Network | To hire a bilingual paralegal to help low-income clients with legal issues that do not require an attorney. | $39,000.00 |
| CASA of Central Texas, Inc. | To update technology infrastructure to increase security and business continuity. | $5,250.00 |
| Catholic Charities of Central Texas | To provide pro bono legal representation to Afghan families resettling in Central Texas after the fall of the Afghan government in 2021. | $30,000.00 |
| Center for Child Protection | To partially fund the replacement of forensic interview recording equipment; to provide high quality evidence for the investigation and prosecution of crimes against children. | $30,000.00 |
| ChildSafe | To provide victims of child abuse certified, trauma-informed language and sign language interpreters as necessary for forensic interviews, family support and therapeutic services. | $15,000.00 |
| Girasol Texas at the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing | To provide support groups and trainings for legal professionals working with immigrant populations to lessen the impact of vicarious trauma and promote positive mental health. | $10,000.00 |
| Girls Empowerment Network | To support the creation, piloting, and evaluation of a new adaptation of the programming for girls housed in the McLennan County State Juvenile Correctional Facility. | $5,000.00 |
| Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio | To provide credit reports for under-served families while informing them of their rights and giving them personalized information to overcome financial obstacles. | $5,000.00 |
| Mercy Gate Ministries, Inc. | To provide training to first responders and court officials to identify victims/defendants that have been sex-trafficked and support these victims through the justice system. | $11,775.00 |
| Palo Alto College | To support a unique scholarship program to encourage higher education attainment for low-level juveniles offenders & provide support through-and-past the post-adjudication period. | $20,000.00 |
| St. Mary's University School of Law | To provide financial support to six law students who have secured an unpaid position with a legal services providers serving low-income clients or government agencies. | $15,000.00 |
| Texas CASA | To provide training on Collaborative Family Engagement, which ensures family members are included when a child is removed from their parents and put into the child welfare system. | $10,000.00 |
| Texas Legal Services Center | To support the creation of instructional videos for a new Virtual Court Access Project. | $12,500.00 |
| The SAFE Alliance | To assist survivors of violence with legal documents should they pass away or become incapacitated/unavailable to their loved ones long-term. | $5,500.00 |
| Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas | To provide pro bono legal services to survivors of domestic violence, ensuring survivors have the legal representation needed to leave their abuser and stabilize their lives. | $20,000.00 |
| Women's Empowerment Legal Center | To provide funds so that more protective orders and divorces can be filed for victims of domestic violence. | $5,000.00 |
| YMCA of Greater San Antonio | To connect underrepresented youth with the legal profession and a greater understanding of civic engagement, democracy, enhancing their academic, leadership, and life skills. | $10,000.00 |
| Youth Justice Alliance | To cover training in legal topics, professional clothing, funding for judicial & nonprofit internships, LSAT support, and academic advising. | $30,000.00 |
| Total Central | $359,025 | |
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Southeast | ||
| AccessHealth | To expand the range of quality legal services and referrals available to low-income health center patients to address their health harming legal needs. | $25,000.00 |
| Advocates for Immigrant Survivors | To aid immigrant survivors of homicide, attempted homicide, manslaughter, or aggravated assault in achieving stable immigration status and financial independence. | $7,500.00 |
| Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse | To host families of survivors for a no-cost day of family-friendly fun in the summer of 2023. | $3,500.00 |
| Angel Reach | To expand the learning intervention program offered to youth ages 16-24, to include children in the Kinship family program. | $15,000.00 |
| Avenue Community Development Corporation | To educate residents of their housing and credit rights through education classes, pre- and post-purchase counseling and workshops, and foreclosure intervention counseling. | $5,000.00 |
| CASA of Galveston County | To develop individual portfolios for youth exiting foster care to increase independence through understanding their rights as adults. | $5,000.00 |
| Cherish Our Children, Inc (COCI) | To provide family support services and student mentoring, including partnering with local police officers to facilitate classroom discussions around resiliency and setting goals. | $25,000.00 |
| Child Advocates | To support a Permanent Managing Conservatorship (PMC) project, launched as a 2019 pilot. | $7,500.00 |
| Child Advocates of Fort Bend | To provide a multi-disciplinary response to child abuse (legal, justice, law enforcement, CPS, CAC clinical and advocacy services), family-strengthening and prevention outreach. | $10,000.00 |
| Children 4 Tomorrow | To provide equipment and evaluating materials in support of a technology training expansion project to support child abuse victims and families going through the court system. | $17,964.00 |
| Communities in Schools Houston, Inc. | To provide stipends for three high school students who will serve as interns for non-profit or governmental legal agencies during Summer 2023. | $10,560.00 |
| Crime Stoppers of Houston | To allow the Victim Services Program to continue as a vehicle for ensuring that victims of crime receive justice, meaningful assistance and compassionate treatment. | $10,000.00 |
| Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, Inc. | To address a broad array of bio-psycho-social issues contributing to the legal issues of clients. | $10,000.00 |
| Education Based Housing | To connect lawyers to vulnerable populations in Houston and equip low-income people to become self-advocates and leaders in their communities. | $9,000.00 |
| Fe y Justicia Workers Center | To assist low income and under-served immigrant workers to obtain their stolen wages and immigration cases. | $30,000.00 |
| Fort Bend Women's Center | To provide partial funding for a paralegal and process servers to assist the staff attorney with survivors who have immediate legal requirements. | $31,292.00 |
| Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project | To hire the first full-time attorney in Galveston providing trauma-informed representation to immigrant survivors so they can achieve safety and stability. | $20,000.00 |
| Harris County Domestic Relations Office | To support the judiciary and assist self-represented litigants finalize their uncontested family law case by reviewing final orders and providing legal information. | $25,000.00 |
| Hope For Three | To support an education program designed to mitigate negative outcomes for teens/young adult drivers with autism when encountering law enforcement during traffic stops. | $5,640.00 |
| Houston Area Women's Center | To meet the needs of survivors of family violence by assisting children and families navigating the criminal justice system with Legal Services support. | $26,800.00 |
| Justice for All Immigrants | To provide high quality legal services for immigrant victims of abuse. | $5,000.00 |
| Justice Forward | To provide funds for petitions for nondisclosure and expunction for eligible graduates of Harris County Specialty Courts to remove criminal history from their records. | $19,000.00 |
| Memorial Assistance Ministries | To assist young low-income immigrants in obtaining or continuing their work authorization through DACA. | $6,000.00 |
| MiCreate | To support business legal aid for 10 human trafficking survivors with funding to cover attorney and copyright registration and trademark filing application costs. | $3,925.00 |
| Montrose Grace Place | To provide justice involved youth experiencing homelessness relief from legal fees, legal assistance, and assist trans youth with changing their name and gender marker. | $12,500.00 |
| Prison Entrepreneurship Program | To provide funding to replace 260 classroom chairs and 120 folding chairs used in prison/pre-release programs. | $25,000.00 |
| Tahirih Justice Center | To deliver free, holistic, trauma-informed legal services to underserved immigrant survivors in Fort Bend County. | $20,000.00 |
| Total Southeast Texas | $391,181 | |
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Valley & Gulf Coast | ||
| Alzheimer's Association - South Central Texas Chapter | To provide Legal and Financial Education Classes in English & Spanish to those affected by dementia in Aransas, Bee, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, & San Patricio counties. | $8,000.00 |
| Equal Justice America | To provide pro bono legal services to marginalized communities through funding fellowships to law students to serve at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. | $10,000.00 |
| Voz de Ninos | To provide an additional Advocate Supervisor to serve more abused and neglected children in Webb County. | $18,000.00 |
| Total The Valley & Gulf Coast | $36,000 | |
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Statewide | ||
| Innocence Project of Texas | To increase the capacity of the legal assistance program to provide representation for clients with actual innocence claims. | $20,000.00 |
| Lone Star Justice Alliance | To provide fee legal services to survivors of human trafficking & domestic violence seeking clemency for crimes tied to their victimization & child victims of trafficking in TJJD. | $37,500.00 |
| San Antonio Legal Services Association | To fund staff support and setup expenses for the intake/referral framework to accommodate referrals to legal partner organizations across the state. | $30,000.00 |
| State Bar of Texas Legal Services Office | To provide scholarships for Access to Justice summer interns. | $20,000.00 |
| Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts | To provide technology upgrades including website re-design, data collection improvements, database changes, and revision and expansion of current online content. | $14,500.00 |
| Texas Appleseed | To make critical information more accessible to our state’s most vulnerable youth: LBGTQ youth experiencing homelessness. | $1,000.00 |
| Texas Center for the Judiciary, Inc. | To further judicial expertise, provide a safe environment to exchange ideas, and offer an opportunity for collegiality among the judiciary and its partners. | $30,000.00 |
| Texas Defender Service | To provide parole representation and wrap-around reentry services. | $25,000.00 |
| Texas Guardianship Association | To provide education regarding guardianships to various Texas constituencies, increasing guardianship compliance and better quality of care by guardians. | $7,500.00 |
| Texas Young Lawyers Association | To create a multimedia website that educates students and the general public about their rights and responsibilities under the law upon reaching adulthood. | $48,000.00 |
| The Equal Justice Center | To replace its old electronic case management system with an upgraded and more dynamic case management system. | $21,000.00 |
| The Texas Tribune | To increase public awareness of key issues affecting Texans in Texas Courts through nonpartisan journalism. | $5,000.00 |
| Total Statewide | $259,500 | |
| GRAND TOTAL FOR ALL GRANTS | $1,529,051 | |
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