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Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Ms. Sheri Fox, Director
607 West Summit Hill Drive
Knoxville, TN 37902
865-637‑0484
www.laet.org

Civil Justice, A Basic Need – $60,697
This program provides civil legal aid to low income persons to insure a fair opportunity for accessing and maintaining housing; the means necessary to obtain employment, the means necessary to protect income and assets, fair treatment in education; and fair access to health care, all as provided by law.

Domestic Violence Civil Legal Aid- $100,000
The Domestic Violence Legal Aid program will provide crisis legal services to victims of domestic violence to help them achieve safety, stability, and self-sufficiency.

Homeless Prevention and Legal Services Project – $31,075
This program address factors preventing people in Knox County from obtaining and sustaining safe, affordable housing, and helps those who are currently homeless address the urgent legal needs that stand in their way of self-sufficiency.

 

“If the very most vulnerable citizens in our community can’t access the court system like everybody else, how is this going to be a community that believes in its courts, and its judges, and its law enforcement?”

Sheri Fox, Executive Director

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