The nation’s civil legal aid providers, already stretched thin, are facing new and daunting challenges.

Our country’s growing opioid crisis, which claims 115 lives each day, has greatly stressed the medical and criminal justice systems, but a variety of civil legal issues are also plaguing affected communities, from domestic violence to eviction to kinship care, often involving grandparents who need to adopt or secure legal guardianship for grandchildren whose addicted parents can no longer care for them.