Service Opportunities

YLD provides crucial support for several community service programs. 
For more information about when these events occur,
check our Blog page.

More details below:

Wills for Heroes

Serving Our Seniors
Wills for Heroes is a service project that provides free wills, living wills, and healthcare and financial powers of attorney to first responders (police, firefighters, paramedics, etc.) and their spouses or partners. These one-day events are held every other month at a first responder department or agency in Utah. Participants are trained and provided with laptop computers that have been preloaded with specialized software that allow volunteer attorneys to take questionnaire information previously completed by the first responders and input it to create the estate planning documents.
Serving Our Seniors provides pro bono services to low-income senior citizens. Specifically, the program helps senior citizens prepare and execute critical estate planning documents, such as advanced health care directives and powers of attorney. The event is held multiple times throughout the year at senior centers around the state. Each event offers one CLE credit hour for attorney participants.

Bullyproof

Cinderella Prom Bountique
Bullyproof is an anti-bullying education and service project started by the ABA YLD in 2014. The goals of the program are to address issues of bullying with students who experience bullying; to empower bystanders to stand up against bullying in their schools; to address the issue of cyber bullying; and to inform students, teachers, and administrators about how to use and advocate for anti-bullying policies and legislation.
The Cinderella Prom Boutique gives young women from low-income families an opportunity to attend their high school proms by providing new or gently used dresses and accessories at no cost.

Green Utah

Project Street Youth
Green Utah is a project dedicated to increasing awareness of sustainability issues within the legal community in Utah. This program hosts service projects to encourage law firms and the Utah State Bar to adopt more sustainable practices such as offsetting electricity usage with wind power, recycling program, rideshares, implementing sustainability pledges, and other green initiatives.

Tuesday Night Bar

The Tuesday Night Bar Coordinator promotes young lawyers’ involvement with this joint program of the Utah State Bar. Volunteer attorneys are organized by team captains and team members to provide free legal services to the community. The TNB Coordinator also helps refer clients to the Utah State Bar Modest Means Program. Each event offers one CLE credit hour for attorney participants.
Project Street Youth works in conjunction with the Volunteers of America and seeks to educate and raise awareness of issues facing homeless youth. It also implements elements of the ABA YLD Project Street Youth toolkit for hosting legal clinics to help homeless youth with credit and consumer issues, public assistance and government benefits, tickets, warrants, and minor criminal matters. 

Project Street Youth is in need of volunteers during the week from 4 to 6pm at the Homeless Youth Resource Center (888 S. 400 W., Salt Lake City) to provide consults. No expertise in any field is necessary. A consult is typically limited to issue spotting, taking down the name and information of the individual, and providing a brief description of the issue, then passing that information to Todd Livingston, the Project Street Youth Chair. The consults are provided on the first floor at a table in the corner in front of the food service area.

Veterans Clinic

West Jordan Pro Bono Clinic
The Veterans Clinic Coordinator seeks to improve Utah veterans’ access to justice by holding monthly legal clinics in Salt Lake City and St. George. The Veterans Clinic also coordinates with state and national legal aid groups and veterans organizations to identify and address areas of concern specific to veterans. 
Sign up to volunteer for the West Jordan Landlord Tenant Pro Se Calendar, a limited scope legal clinic where attorneys provide advice and representation at a single hearing for pro se individuals.  It’s an extremely effective way to do pro bono, and you’re only on the hook for a couple hours.  
 
The calendar takes places every Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at the West Jordan Courthouse, and rotates through all the judges at the court.  Click here to sign up.  We’re trying to get three attorney volunteers per week. 
 
This calendar is providing a much needed service to pro se individuals involved in immediate occupancy hearings.  We will have supervisory attorneys present, so don’t worry if you’re not entirely confident with landlord tenant law yet.