Legal Resources
LEGAL RESOURCES
There are many times when someone with a brain injury requires
legal assistance to protect their rights and make adequate
protection for their long-term care.
Kentucky Protection and Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy (P&A) is an independent state agency
that was designated by the Governor as the protection and
advocacy agency for Kentucky. P&A’s staff includes professional
advocates and attorneys. We are advocates working together with
people who have disabilities to promote and protect their legal
rights. Through our information and referral services, we try to
answer questions about your rights under disability laws.
To contact Kentucky Protection and Advocacy and get
information or to seek help in resolving a potential case of
discrimination or denial of basic rights for those with a disability
due to brain injury you can contact them by telephone or on the
Internet.
Phone: Internet:
1-800-372-2988 www.kypa.net
Legal Services
The Access to Justice Foundation is a poverty law resource
center dedicated to providing opportunity for quality civil legal
assistance or low-income Kentuckians.
Access to Justice Foundation 859-255-9913
535 West Second Street, Ste. 101
Lexington, KY 40508
www.ajfky.org
The Access to Justice Foundation is a poverty law resource
center dedicated to providing opportunity for quality civil legal
assistance or low-income Kentuckians.
Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc.
(APPALRED) serves low income clients and groups in 37 eastern
and south central Appalachian counties through a network of ten
(10) area offices and support office in Lexington. APPALRED ‘s
staff provides legal advice and representation to clients facing a
full range of poverty law problems including family law, housing,
public benefits, consumer issues, utility cut-offs, employment
and education law. APPALRED has represented non-profit
organizations which assist low income persons, such as spouse
abuse shelters and housing development groups. For more
information call toll-free: 1-866-277-5733 or can visit them online
at www.ardfky.org
Legal Aid of the Bluegrass (Northern and Central Kentucky)
Phone: (859) 431-8200
Veteran’s Project: 1-866-516-3054
www.lablaw.org
Central Kentucky Legal Services (CKLS) offers services to low
income residents of Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Fayette, Franklin,
Harrison, Jessamine, Mercer, Scott, and Woodford Counties.
CKLS also offers services to seniors and prevention services
to victims of domestic violence in those counties and also to
residents of Clark, Estill, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison, Nicholas,
and Powell Counties, with no means test. For more information
call Lexington 859-233-4556 or 1-800-928-4556.
Cumberland Trace Legal Services (CTLS) has a mission to assist
and enable low-income families as well as the elderly, disabled
and other vulnerable individuals in South Central Kentucky to
resolve legal problems that are a barrier to self-sufficiency, and to
provide these individuals an opportunity for an improved quality
of life. CTLS’s Legal Assistance Program utilizes legal counsel
and representation of low-income families, elderly, individuals
and other disadvantaged people. Counties served include
Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Green, Hart, Logan, Metcalfe,
Simpson, Taylor, and Warren. For more information, call Bowling
Green 270- 782-1924 or 1-800-782-1924 and Madisonville at (270)
825-0689. Further details are available on the Internet at
http://www.ctls.bowlinggreen.net
Louisville Legal Aid Society (LAS) is a regional public interest
law firm serving low-income and elderly clients in fifteen (15)
counties that are a mix of urban, suburban and rural areas. The
primary areas of practice are family law (mainly representing
victims of domestic violence), landlord-tenant and home
ownership defense, consumer, government benefits (SSI, K-TAP,
food stamps, unemployment compensation, and access to health
care issues), and community and economic development (through
work with non-profit community groups). Counties served
include Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson,
Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble,
and Washington Counties. For more information call Louisville
502-584-1254 or 1-800-292-1862. Their Internet address is:
www.laslou.org
Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society covers 23 counties
providing legal services for low income individuals. Counties
served include Bath, Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter,
Elliott, Fleming, Gallatin, Grant, Greenup, Kenton, Lewis, Mason,
Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, Owen, Pendleton,
Robertson, and Rowan. For more information call Covington 859-
431-8200 or 1-800-888-8189: Morehead 606-784-8921 or
1-800-274-5863; Ashland 606-329-1321 or 1-877-295-4137.
Kentucky Legal Aid (Western Kentucky) is a private non-profit
Kentucky corporation serving the twenty-four (24) westernmost
counties in Kentucky from four (4) offices. The goal of WKLS is to
keep the courthouse doors open regardless of income, and ensure
that justice is not rationed based on ability to pay. First time callers
use 1-866-452-9243 toll free is 1-800-782-1924 or local (270) 782-
1924 or visit them on the Internet at http://www.klaid.org/
Further details are available on the Internet at
http://www.nlada.org for the National Legal Aid and Defender
Association, 1625 K Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20006,
telephone 202-452-0620 or on the Web at www.nlada.org
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