Since the early 1990s, The Florida Bar Foundation has funded special annual grants for legal assistance to children. Gifts from attorneys to the Foundation from the Lawyers' Challenge for Children on the annual Florida Bar Fee Statement help support these grants, along with proceeds from The Florida Bar's Kids Deserve Justice license plate initiative. The Foundation's priorities for its Children's Legal Services grants include representation of foster-care children and access to special education, medical, developmental and mental health services that are required under law.

Grantee	Award
Americans for Immigrant Justice, Inc. Miami 305-573-1106 Children's Legal Project Cheryl Little, Executive Director	$62,652
Bay Area Legal Services Tampa 813-232-1343 L. David Shear Children's Law Center Richard C. Woltmann, Executive Director	$131,840
Brevard County Legal Aid Rockledge 321-639-2933 Independent Living Project Robert Johnson, Jr. ,Executive Director	$41,200
Community Law Program St. Petersburg 727-582-7402 Transitioning Dependent Youth Project Kimberly Rodgers, Executive Director	$35,200
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Daytona Beach 386-255-6573 The Child Advocacy Project William H. Abbuehl, Executive Director	$140,080
Dade County Bar Association Legal Aid Society, Inc. Miami 305-579-1024 Teen Legal Collaborative Sharon Langer, Executive Director	$82,400
Florida Equal Justice Center Fort Myers 239-277-7060 Schoolhouse-Safehouse Sally G. Schmidt, Executive Director	$126,868
Florida Institutional Legal Services Newberry 352-375-2494 Children in Custody Project Christopher M. Jones, Executive Director	$78,280
Florida International University College of Law Miami 305-348-7484 Children's Education Advocacy Clinic Margaret Maisel, Director of Clinical Programs	$90,640
Florida's Children First Coral Springs 954-796-0860 Florida's Children First Children's Systemic Initiatives Christina Spudeas, Executive Director	$228,120
Florida Legal Services, Inc. Tallahassee 850-385-7900 Children's Statewide Litigation and Policy Kent R. Spuhler, Executive Director	$127,720
Florida State University College of Law, Public Interest Law Center Tallahassee 850-644-9928 Health Care Access/ Special Education Project Paolo Annino, Clinical Professor	$127,720
Gulfcoast Legal Services St. Petersburg 727-821-0726 GLS Child (Children's Immigration Legal) John P. Cunningham Executive Director	$57,680
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Jacksonville 904-356-8371 Crisis in Duval Foster Care Education Systems Project Michael G. Figgins, Executive Director	$65,920
Lawyers for Children America, Inc. Miami 305-577-4771 Teen Legal Collaborative Project Melissa Buckner, Regional Director	$82,400
Lawyers for Children America, Inc. Miami 305-577-4771 Miami Youth S.H.I.N.E. Project *Striving High for Independence and Empowerment Melissa Buckner, Regional Director	$57,680
Legal Aid Service of Broward County Plantation 954-736-2424 Children's Advocacy Program - Education Legal Rights Project, Broward and Collier Anthony J. Karrat, Executive Director	$111,240
Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County West Palm Beach 561-655-8944 Children's Educational Advocacy Law Project Robert A. Bertisch, Executive Director	$115,360
Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association Orlando 407-841-8310 Guardian Ad Litem Project Mary Anne De Petrillo, Executive Director	$110,416
Legal Services of Greater Miami Miami 305-576-0080 Special Education Advocacy Project Marcia K. Cypen, Executive Director	$46,640
Legal Services of North Florida Tallahassee 850-385-9007 Children's Legal Representation Project (CLRP) Kristine E. Knab, Executive Director	$95,584
Southern Legal Counsel Gainesville 352-271-8890 Education Advocacy Project Jodi Siegel, Executive Director	$123,600
University of Miami School of Law Children & Youth Law Clinic Coral Gables 305-284-3123 Statewide Foster Children's Advocacy Project Dean Patricia D. White	$96,842
Total	$2,236,082

*This page was updated March 21, 2011.