The Bronx Defenders

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2011 to Sep 30, 2012

Signed

Aug 8, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$20,271,976

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Family defense practice: the family defense practice represents parents charged with abuse or neglect in the bronx. The attorneys, social workers and parent advocates in the practice use our office's proven interdisciplinary approach to keep families together, ensuring that children remain safely with their parents and minimizing the trauma to children of a family disruption. In 2007, the bronx defenders was selected by the city of new york to expand this successful model and became the first institutional provider of parent representation in bronx family court. In 2012, we served 990 families.

Activity 3

Civil action practice: at the bronx defenders, our unique service model allows us to intervene early when a client's ability to meet her basic needs is jeopardized and to address problems before they become crises. Our civil attorneys work directly with other advocates in our office to provide holistic, integrated representation to our clients and their families and to find comprehensive solutions to the obstacles they face. Together, they work to preserve clients' hard-earned jobs, maintain stable housing and public benefits, correct rap sheet errors, and keep clients in the country with their families. But most of all, our civil action practice helps our clients fight their way out of the vicious cycle of poverty to improve their lives. In 2012, we served more than 3,000 individuals.

Filer

EIN

13-3931074