Settlement helps seniors, disabled on Medicaid avoid nursing homes
by Stacey Singer DeLoye Following painful spinal surgery, Janet Cramer, 79, suffered a…
Continue readingPro bono help brings a mother’s six-year wait to a joyful end
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Continue readingFoundation-funded project protects the rights of chronically ill children to specialty care
Alex Rodriguez, 11, was one of five petitioners in a rule challenge brought by the Florida State University…
Continue readingChildren’s legal services projects in dire need of funding
A single mother waiting tables in Daytona Beach, Michelle Gonska rarely saw two days go by without getting a call from her first-grader’s…
Continue readingElizabeth Guzman and Ericka Garcia: The warrior and the soldier
Elizabeth Guzman, left, almost lost her severely disabled daughter. The girl is alive today and Guzman’s…
Continue readingFederal judge orders state of Florida to cover applied behavioral analysis therapy for autism
Iliana Gonzalez and her son Karls, 6, enjoy visiting the playground at the…
Continue readingLegal aid organizations struggle to retain attorneys cultivated by Bar Foundation and Equal Justice Works
From left, Florida Institutional Legal Services staff attorneys and former Equal Justice Works fellows Kristen Lentz, Cassandra Capobianco…
Continue readingHow Ashlyn got her sparkle back
Sparkly. An eager, cheerful learner. Ashlyn Sikes’ teacher used these words to describe the Tallahassee second-grader, who…
Continue readingLegal Aid attorney opens doors for first-grader
by Nancy Kinnally In this photo: Keshawn, now 8, and his father James Kearse relax at home together in…
Continue readingKeeping the developmentally disabled out of prison
Growing up in Parsons, Kan., Katy DeBriere was surrounded by people with developmental disabilities, many of them residents at a state…
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