A year ago, the Office of Community Services under the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, awarded the first ever cohort of grant recipients, including MLSA, to receive funding from the Medical Legal Partnerships Plus (MLP+) program. Grounded in addressing the social determinants of health, medical-legal partnerships are multi-disciplinary care teams that incorporate legal experts …
The Montana Family Transition Project is a mediation program that offers you the chance to decide what’s next for your family, instead of going to court and having a judge decide. The program is free to families who are eligible. A trained professional mediator will help you and your co-parent talk through the issues and …
Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA) is taking a brief pause on accepting new applications from July 29th through August 11th. We will return to business as usual on August 12th. MLSA has always aimed to respond to applicants in a timely manner. However, the need for free legal help has grown, and as a result …
Free Fishing Mother’s Day Weekend is May 13-14! By Montana law, each year on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day weekends any person (resident or nonresident) may fish within the state without a fishing license. You do need to keep a few things keep in mind. Folks do need to follow the seasons, restrictions and bag …
If you have not filed a tax return for 2021, you may be missing out on financial benefits! File for free and without a penalty by November 17, 2022. Even if you are not required to file a tax return, you may still qualify for financial benefits including: the Child Tax Credit (worth up to …
When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, thousands of Montanans suddenly found themselves in an impossible situation: how to pay their rent in the face of lost wages from illness and closed worksites. These disruptions have continued, while housing and rent costs have skyrocketed, leaving Montanans vulnerable to eviction and homelessness. The Montana Eviction Intervention Project …
MLSA works hard to provide legal services to low income Montanans and to raise awareness about the civil legal challenges they so often face. As part of these efforts, MLSA’s work is regularly highlighted in the media. Read on to learn more about the work MLSA has been doing to increase access to civil legal …
Montanans across the state are facing a housing crisis. Prices both to rent and buy a place to live have skyrocketed, leaving vacancy rates extremely low in cities big and small.
How a $3.4 million federal grant is helping Montana chip away at youth homelessness. “Making sure that every kid has a safe, happy, healthy place to be raised? Yeah. We’re not quite there,” Nichole Heyer, a youth homelessness navigator at Montana Legal Services Association.
In states like Montana, the prescription for healthier patients may be lawyers. “Without legal help along the way, the woman would have just been like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’” Kallie Dale-Ramos, Medical-Legal Partnership Staff Attorney.
