Legal Aid strengthens our communities and transforms the lives of everyday Ohioans.

Legal aid works in each of Ohio’s 88 counties to protect survivors of  domestic violence; to prevent the financial exploitation of Ohio’s seniors; to ensure access to healthcare for low-income Ohioans, to preserve stable housing; and to secure financial stability so that all Ohioans can lead safe, stable, and healthy lives. In 2019, Ohio’s legal aids served 140,870 Ohioans, including more than:

  • 4,987 veterans

  • 17,329 seniors

  • 10,179 survivors of domestic violence; and,

  • 60,332 children

Click here to see legal aid’s impact in your congressional district. 

Check out what legal aid is doing to help Ohioans impacted by coronavirus.

LSC Funded Legal Aids in Ohio

The Legal Services Corporation

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The Legal Services Corporation

Help fund the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which was created to promote equal access to justice by providing funding assistance to civil legal aid programs that exist in every Ohio county.

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

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The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

Help preserve the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF), which enables law school graduates and other public-service professionals to embark upon, and remain in, less remunerative public service careers by offering partial student loan forgiveness after ten years of service.

Rural Broadband Access

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Rural Broadband Access

Help educate your Members of Congress on the need to increase broadband access across the country. Approximately twenty-five million Americans and over 600,000 Ohioans lack high-speed internet access, the majority of whom live in rural areas.

Legal Services for Homeless Veterans

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Legal Services for Homeless Veterans

Help persuade Congress to pass legislation to give the Department of Veterans Affairs the authority it needs to fund legal services for veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Latest news and developments on legal aid funding

OHIO LEGAL AID FUNDING SOURCES

Ohio contributes more than $2 for every federal dollar invested through privately-raised dollars, interest earned on lawyer trust accounts, civil filing fees and some limited state general revenue.

Legal aid also sustained more than 700 jobs for Ohioans throughout the state in all sectors.

Don’t put Ohio’s civil legal services at risk during this critical period – support LSC emergency funding, robust LSC funding for FY 21, VA funding for legal services and greater rural broadband.

IMPACT STORIES

A Veteran’s Path to Stability

An honorably discharged veteran expressed concerns to legal aid about benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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A Child and a Medical-Legal Partnership

A single mother of two took her infant son and first grade son to the baby’s well exam at their local children’s hospital.

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Helping Young Parents Address their Opiate Addiction

A couple in their mid-twenties realized they risked losing custody of their two-year-old daughter if they did not address their opiate addictions.

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