Access to Justice Grant

This information is provided under the requirements of 2023 H.B. 2184, Sec. 143. 
 

2025 recipients

Administrative Order 2024-GA-079: Fiscal Year 2025 Access to Justice Grant Award
 

2025 applicants

Organization: Building Peace
Application: Expanding Restorative Justice in Douglas County
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Restorative justice mediation in juvenile offender and landlord-tenant cases, collaboration to train local law enforcement in mediation techniques. 
Project location: Douglas County
Amount requested: $44,057
Amount awarded: $29,371

Organization: Kansas Holistic Defenders
Application: The Douglas County Civil Attorney Program-2025
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Direct pro bono representation in Douglas County eviction cases and other civil matters if funding allows. 
Project location: Douglas County
Amount requested: $146,375
Amount awarded: $81,250

Organization: Kansas Legal Services
Application: Legal Advice and Representation–2025
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Legal counsel in domestic and other civil matters, legal assistance to self-represented litigants, assistance at Help Centers, a statewide Access to Justice Advice Line, alternative dispute resolution services, and a guardian ad litem support center.
Project location: Statewide
Amount requested: $803,306
Amount awarded: $724,239

Organization: KC Digital Drive
Application: Assistive Tech Adapted for Kansas Pro Bono-Assisted and Pro Se Parties—Asteria 
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Enhance the online expungement assistance tool, create a guardianship and conservatorship assistance tool using the same model, and prototype a self-help center software.
Project location: Statewide
Amount requested: $166,667
Amount awarded: $65,140

Organization: Cornerstones of Care
Application: Parent Youth Facilitation Project
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Parent/Youth Facilitation project to connect families to community services to prevent older youth from entering into the foster care system and assist those in the system with barriers that prevent stability. 
Project location: Wyandotte County
Amount requested: $200,000
Amount awarded: $0

Organization: Kansas Alliance for Nonprofits and My Child Advocate, PA
Application: Gurardian Ad Litem Pro Bono Project
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Creation of a Guardian ad Litem Pro Bono Project. 
Project location: Statewide
Amount requested: $79,673
Amount awarded: $0

Organization: Kansas Alliance for Nonprofits and The Layne Project, Inc.
Application: BeH2O–A Child Focused Joint Parenting Coaching Program
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Expand the BeH2O child focused joint parenting coaching program to additional counties.  
Project location: Johnson, Wyandotte, Leavenworth, Miami, and Douglas Counties
Amount requested: $117,810
Amount awarded: $0

Organization: Offender/Victim Ministries
Application: The Batterer Intervention Program of Offender/Victim Ministries
Date received: 6-17-2024
Project description: Increase the capacity for the Batterers Intervention Program. 
Project location: 9th Judicial District
Amount requested: $54,794
Amount awarded: $0
 

2024 recipients  

Administrative Order 2023-GA-062 making FY 2024 grant awards. 
 

2024 applicants 

Organization: Building Peace 
Application: Juvenile Offender-Victim Dialogue in Douglas County
Date received: 5-15-2023 
Project description: Restorative justice mediation in juvenile offender cases. 
Project location: Douglas County 
Amount requested: $41,567 
Amount awarded: $41,567 

Organization: Kansas Holistic Defenders 
Application: The Douglas County Civil Attorney Project–2024
Date received: 6-16-2023 
Project description: Direct pro bono representation in Douglas County eviction cases and other civil matters if funding allows. 
Project location: Douglas County 
Amount requested: $399,727 
Amount awarded: $81,250 

Organization: Kansas Legal Services 
Application: Legal Advice and Assistance–2024
Date received: 6-16-2023 
Project description: Legal counsel in domestic and other civil matters, legal assistance to self-represented litigants, assistance at Help Centers, a statewide Access to Justice Advice Line, alternative dispute resolution services, and a guardian ad litem support center. 
Project location: Statewide 
Amount requested: $800,000 
Amount awarded: $677,183