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Causes: Crime & Law, Legal Services
Mission: The mission of doctors & lawyers for kids is to connect the medical and legal professions to address legal needs that affect the health and welfare of children and their families.
Programs: The organization provides legal training to healthcare workers and legal services to indigent patients in a clinical setting. Space is donated in 4 indigent children's clinics. These clinics serve approximately 20,000 pediatric patients on an annual basis. Training time of residents, a medical director and social worker has been and will be available from the department of pediatrics. The louisville bar association provides volunteer lawyers. Grant applications are pending to provide additional funding, of which previous grants have funded 1 1/2 time lawyer and 1/2 time paralegal to provide counsel and other services on site. No charge will be made to the patients.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.