Disaster Resilience Program

The Disaster Resilience Program mobilizes Fellows (legal aid attorneys) and Student Fellows (law students) to provide free civil legal aid in disaster-prone areas to ensure vital legal services are accessible, comprehensive, and responsive to the unique needs of individuals, families, and communities.

Four attorney Fellows and four Summer Law Students will join with the current cohort of Fellows already serving in the program, and work full-time at legal services organizations in the state of Florida or territory of Puerto Rico beginning no earlier than September 1, 2023, and ending no later than 12 months (about 1 year) after the Fellow’s start date. These four Fellows will provide free, responsive civil legal aid to communities impacted by Hurricanes Ian and Fiona. Equal Justice Works, as the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, will support the Fellows and collaborate with the host legal aid organizations (“host organizations”) throughout the implementation of the program.

The Disaster Resilience Program’s 2023 cohort serving Florida and Puerto Rico is funded by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and supplemented by other Equal Justice Works donors.

If you have any questions about the application process, please reach out to [email protected].