Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic

We do not require any sort of faith statement or evangelistic exercise from our clients or volunteers; we welcome all clients and assistance from any attorney who wishes to serve low income families by rendering quality pro bono representation. Second, the Clinic's accessible neighborhood locations and intentional partnership with other non-profit providers of service to low-income families distinguish it from other pro bono clinics. Low income families often have transportation issues and a downtown location can be not only inconvenient, but also intimidating. Moreover, neighborhood locations in multi-service settings with other non-profit providers, government, and churches render our service more holistic; we serve the same clients/patients and can refer and coordinate our services. Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic seeks extensive partnership in all aspects of our programs. Some of our primary partners include: Vida Nueva, Mexican Consulate, St. Vincent Hospital, Julian Center, United Way of Central Indiana, HUD, IRS, Breaking Free, Momentive Consumer Credit Counseling, Indiana Legal Services, and many more. We seek to serve the felt needs of the low income communities in our vicinity . The Preventive Law Educational outreach program was added in 1997 when we recognized the critical need for preventive legal services: providing information that empowers families to make positive life choices and thereby avoiding or mitigating legal problems. Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic won the 2007 Indiana Bar Foundation Law Related Education Award for our Preventive Law Education program. While we provide legal representation and preventive law education in a broad practice spectrum, we will continue to add specific programs that respond to the felt needs of our communities and clients. For example, the Clinic is a HUD certified Housing Counseling Agency and has responded to the foreclosure crisis facing Indiana homeowners by joining the Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network and forming the foreclosure ...