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Offers legal consultations on immigration issues.

Immigration Legal Services

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• Available on Wednesdays; registration is required 9:30am to 11:30am
• Provides seminars, updates, and referrals related to immigrant issues

Offers free legal assistance with civil issues, including family and domestic, children in need of assistance, housing, employment, public benefits, and consumer problems.

Legal Services

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- Helps older adults with benefits, landlord-tenant issues, bankruptcy, utilities, and nursing home issues
- Does not assist with criminal cases, medical malpractice, police or attorney misconduct, car accidents, small claims, credit counseling, or immigration

• Aims to end racial profiling, ensure fair trials and sentences, and stop the use of the death penalty 
• Includes the National Prison Project

• Includes employment assistance, legal services, family reunification, and asylum counseling 
• Accepts donations of home furnishings and household appliances

Provides help with legal cases related to fair housing, community development, voting rights, health and environmental justice, employment discrimination, educational equality, and police misconduct.

Legal Services

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- Does not provide direct legal representation based on individual requests

Provides assistance with mediation, loan modification, negotiations, foreclosure defense, post-foreclosure cases, eviction proceedings, and more.

Legal Services

• Represents groups of employees in industries like cleaning, restaurant, construction, and home care

Offers a treatment program for veterans who have been charged with misdemeanors or felonies.

Courts and Judicial Services

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- Provides comprehensive treatment for substance use and mental health issues.
- Connects veterans to community programs and services.
- Participants are matched with a mentor who will support them throughout the program.

Advocates for the rights of individuals, with a focus on issues like voting rights, immigrants' rights, and government accountability.

Advocacy and Human Rights

Offers resources and information related to employment issues like discrimination, wages, termination, hiring practices, employee rights, and employer responsibilities.

Helplines and Information

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- Able to provide general legal information but not legal representation

• Searches for non-custodial parent and establishes paternity of the child 
• Enforces and collects court ordered support payments 
• Helps with court order review and modification

Provides assistance to find long-term support options and determine eligibility for public programs.

Case Management

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- Screens for Medicaid nursing facility and home and community-based service waiver programs
- Helps with level of care determinations
- Offers referrals to health, transportation, housing, and income support programs

• Aims to end racial profiling, ensure fair trials and sentences, and stop the use of the death penalty 
• Includes the National Prison Project

• Held in the evenings and on Saturday mornings 
• Childcare is provided while classes take place

Provides human services to residents of Howard County, as well as access to 18 partner agencies.

Community Center

Offers free legal assistance with civil issues, including family and domestic, children in need of assistance, housing, employment, public benefits, and consumer problems.

Legal Services

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- Helps older adults with benefits, landlord-tenant issues, bankruptcy, utilities, and nursing home issues
- Does not assist with criminal cases, medical malpractice, police or attorney misconduct, car accidents, small claims, credit counseling, or immigration

Provides lawyer referrals in the area of law related to the individual's legal concern.

Legal Services

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- Initial referral service is free
- Initial consultation fee with the referred lawyer must be paid at time of service
- Does not maintain a list of lawyers offering pro bono (free) legal services

Provides bilingual legal advice to low-income individuals seeking to represent themselves.

Legal Services

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- May refer clients to a lawyer if necessary

Provides free and reduced-cost legal assistance to communities, neighborhood associations, and small nonprofits.

Legal Services

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- Helps with corporate governance for nonprofits, including 501c3 formation, board of directors training, by-laws development, crisis management, and organization dissolution
- Helps with neighborhood concerns, navigates city and state laws and ordinances for communities

Helps tenants and landlords understand and navigate their rights and responsibilities under federal and state renter laws.

Legal Services

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- Accepts reports related to discrimination and other violations by a landlord
- Offers connections to housing counseling programs and local housing code enforcement
- Provides referrals as needed for legal advice or representation for eviction cases, voucher or subsidy terminations, rent escrow cases, or other disputes

• Works with public and private organizations throughout the state 
• Provides guidance on nutrition, healthcare, education, housing, employment, and benefits

• Conducts citizen workshops 
• Assists victims of domestic violence with family law matters

• Offers civil pro bono, reduced fee, and judicare programs based on income and type of case 
• Helps individuals charged with a crime who don't qualify for a public defender