One Bar | One Community Public Service Project

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The One Bar | One Community Public Service Project schedules and organizes at least one monthly public service event to benefit residents of Maryland.  This award-winning project was created by past chair, Michael Siri, and is run by the Public Awareness Committee and includes events such as the Annual Special Olympics Polar Bear Plunge, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, and helping the Maryland Food Bank.

The Storybook Project

This is a project continued from the MSBA Leadership Academy fellows class of 2009-2010 who implemented the "Stories from My Father" public service at the Jessup Correctional Institution (JCI). 
The core of the project consists of YLS attorneys and volunteers entering JCI twice a month, armed with children’s books and digital audio recorders, and recording incarcerated fathers reading books to their children. We then mail each book, along with a CD of the father reading it, to each child. At the end of each year of the project we organized a day that children can come to JCI to meet in person with their fathers. 
The primary goals of the project are to lessen the harm that children suffer due to the incarceration of a parent by strengthening family bonds and engendering a love of reading.
Read more about this project in the April 2010 Bar Bulletin.

Wills for Heroes

The YLS is an affiliate of the Wills for Heroes Foundation and proudly organizes volunteers for Wills for Heroes events.

Wills for Heroes is a free and easy service that provides Wills, Living Wills, Health Care and Financial Powers of Attorney to first responders and their spouses/partners.  The foundation was started in response to the tragic events of 9/11. Of the 403 first responders who died that day, most did not have a will in place. First responders risk their lives each day to make our communities safer. This program provides free wills and other estate planning documents to our local heroes in about one hour using a program supplied free-of-charge by LexisNexis.