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Hunton Andrews Kurth Sponsors Christmas for Two SSF Clients

…sents for the families of two AVLF clients. Two social workers from AVLF’s Safe Families Office with our client and her family’s gifts. For families who have few resources to spare, the holidays can be especially tough. To bring some joy to the homes of two of our Safe and Stable Famlies clients, Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Staff Community Service Committee provided Christmas gifts to two Atlanta families this year. “You don’t know how much stress and…

Why We Pledged $40,000 to AVLF

…years. We hope you will join us in this celebration – we promise, you will get far more than you give. Elizabeth Finn Johnson is a dedicated volunteer in the Safe Families Office. Watch the video about our Safe and Stable Families program here. 10041…

Staff Attorney Joel Correa Receives John Mayoue Family Law Institute Scholarship

…to Joel, and our thanks to the family of John Mayoue. Read more about our Safe Families Office / Domestic Violence work. Ashleigh Starnes Communications Associate As AVLF’s Communications Associate, Ashleigh helps Katie King with website content development, social media outreach, and various other forms of communication with our fiercely compassionate supporters. Ashleigh is ever-eager to share the remarkable stories of our clients, and the impa…

The Missing Doors

…andlords accountable, and providing direct financial assistance to Atlanta families until the affordable housing crisis is resolved for good. Help us secure safe and stable homes for our clients by donating today. Cole Thaler Co-Director, Safe & Stable Homes Project Check out more from this author. Cole serves as the co-director of AVLF’s Safe and Stable Homes Project. He supervises the Saturday Lawyer Program and the Eviction Defense Program. Col…

Many Tables

…t, does not simply serve abuse survivors in the Fulton County Courthouse’s Safe Families Office. She is also the Co-Chair of the Fulton County Family Violence Task Force, a coalition that draws on its member agencies to strengthen protections for domestic violence survivors. Where community members and policy-makers gather to debate issues and make plans that affect tenants and survivors, AVLF is often in the room. AVLF staff are also active membe…

Anonymous Donor Challenges AVLF to raise $500,000

…g less than transform the organization’s ability to save lives and promote safe and stable homes and families. This generous donor has agreed to match the first $500,000 of donations – allowing AVLF to create a $1 million rainy day fund. “As AVLF celebrates 40 years of serving the Atlanta community, we have received an extraordinary opportunity to ensure that we will be able to continue to serve – and even lead – the Atlanta community for the next…

Letter From Leadership: AVLF in the Times of COVID-19

…. We are still placing landlord-tenant cases with volunteer attorneys. Our Safe & Stable Families Team continues to serve survivors of intimate partner abuse via remote means. Each day, our team speaks with everyone who has filed a petition for a protective order to consider a safety plan with them and to evaluate and as necessary suggest modifications for their petitions. By order of Chief Judge Brasher, all current protective orders are extended…

Letter From Leadership: Securing the Oxygen Mask

…ble. More than anything, this is the reason I work as hard as I do for the families I serve. Safe and stable housing during childhood is the bedrock for success as an adult. A place where a child feels safe and loved. If a child has a foundation set during the formative years of their life, they will be able to withstand the pressures that will find them later on. Now, I am married, and father of four beautiful children. I have been blessed to be…

AVLF’s Programs Join Forces to Better Serve Clients

…: Safe & Stable Homes, which concentrates on landlord-tenant disputes, and Safe & Stable Families, which assists with domestic violence-related legal problems. While these programs are easily separated from each other, intimate partner violence and poor housing often contribute to each other. The statistics surrounding the overlap between these problems are staggering: 39% of cities in the U.S. cite domestic violence as the primary cause of family…

Letter From Leadership: Keeping the Doors Open

…t let our community down – we will be here to provide all the services we promise. An act of unmatched kindness from our donor – and 199 other acts of considerable generosity – has assured that AVLF moves forward prepared to create safe and stable homes and families by inspiring the fight for equal justice. Thank you, Atlanta! Want to read other Letters From Leadership? They are an easy way to find out what drives us here at AVLF. You can find the…

Teamwork on Behalf of Domestic Violence Victims

Ms. A, who spoke very little English, visited the Safe Families Office in the Fulton County Courthouse after being beaten all over her body, day after day, by her husband. The beatings often occurred in front of her four children and were sometimes directed at them. Ms. A was accompanied by a Fulton County Solicitor’s Office Victim’s Assistant and domestic violence advocates from Raksha, Inc. With the Raksha advocates acting as informal interpret…

November 2017 Volunteers

…ffice Extern) Chambliss Thompson, Georgia State University College of Law (Safe Families Office Extern) Guardian ad Litem Gary Alembik, Alembik & Alembik Vanessa Kosky, The Law Office of Vanessa Kosky, PC Jeremy Abernathy, Abernathy Ditzel, LLC Mari LaScala, LaScala Law, LLC Nneka Egwautu, Clyde & Co US LLP Eviction Defense Ashley Hager, Troutman Sanders John Dalton, Troutman Sanders Sean Phillips, Troutman Sanders Sarah Kelsey, Law Office of Sara…