The Adopt-A-Neighborhood Project (“AAN”) is a collaborative project between Legal Aid of Western Missouri (“Legal Aid”), seven private law firms and seven urban core neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri. Each law firm “adopts” one of these neighborhoods, and volunteer attorneys provide free civil legal services to low-income residents, neighborhood associations and local nonprofits that serve the neighborhoods. All seven participating neighborhoods were invited to join AAN because of their strong and active neighborhood association boards, lack of legal counsel, missions to serve low-income residents, and most of the neighborhoods are in areas that experience high rates of violent crime.