Shelter for Elders is Nov. 17-18 at Duval County Courthouse

Building on the success of Freed to Run, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid and Gunster law firm shareholder Mike Freed are launching an initiative to create a Shelter for Elders endowment that will safeguard and strengthen JALA’s housing-related legal assistance for indigent older adults.

“With Freed to Run, we created permanent legal aid funding to serve Northeast Florida children whose health issues are further complicated by their civil legal needs. Now we are going to do the same for our elders who are faced with housing insecurity in their golden years,” Freed said in a news release.

Freed to Run was a six-day series of six 26.2-mile marathons Freed ran from the state Supreme Court in Tallahassee to the Duval County Courthouse.