About Us
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Legal Aid of the Bluegrass |
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Legal Aid of the Bluegrass provides civil legal assistance designed to alleviate the most brutal problems low income people endure. These services are typically in the areas of government benefits, consumer, housing and family law.
Mission
To resolve the most important problems of low income and other vulnerable people by providing high quality legal assistance through direct representation, education, advice, advocacy and coordination with other community resources.
Vision
A community where all are treated with dignity, respect and fairness and do not lack the basic necessities of life.
Established
The Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society, established in 1967, merged with Northeast Kentucky Legal Services in 1997 to serve 4 urban and 19 rural counties with offices in Covington, Morehead and Ashland. In 2002, this organization merged with Central Kentucky Legal Services in Lexington to become the Legal Aid of the Bluegrass serving 33 counties.
Office Locations
Administrative and Service office:
104 East 7th Street, Covington, KY 41011, 1-800-888-8189
Branch Offices:
498 Georgetown Street, Lexington KY 40508
320 E. Main Street, Morehead, KY
40351, 1-800-274-5863
3417 Blackburn Avenue , Unit 1, Ashland, KY 41101, 1-877-295-4137
We serve the poor and vulnerable populations in 33 counties in eastern, northern and central Kentucky. 138,242 poor people live in the service area. Many of those we help are elderly or victims of domestic violence, including immigrant victims. 75% are at or below 125% of the federal poverty guidelines, 28% are working poor, and 54% who seek service and meet priority and income guidelines cannot be helped because of our resource limitations.
In 2006, our staff and volunteers closed 4,009 cases serving 9,312 adults and children; individually counseled over 2,200 other elderly people about public benefits and nearly 150 on homeownership issues; advocated for at least 1,800 frail and elderly nursing home residents and reached over 10,000 others with public awareness activities.
The counties we serve are: Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Elliott, Fayette, Fleming, Franklin, Gallatin, Grant, Greenup, Harrison, Jessamine, Kenton, Lewis, Mason, Menifee, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson, Rowan, Scott, and Woodford.
