Filters: Legal

Advocacy for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

Group: The Young Center

The Young Center accepts referrals for the appointment of Child Advocates. Fill out the form linked on the website.
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Childcare and Pregnancy Legal
Community Focus: Youth Undocumented people/immigrants

Affordable Housing Resources and Tenant Advocacy

Group: Chhaya CDC

Chhaya is a HUD-certified counseling agency providing pre-purchase and post-purchase counseling services, as well as a tenant advocacy team. Needs addressed include: - First-time Homebuyer Program - F...
(718) 478-3848
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Housing Legal
Community Focus: People who are unhoused/housing unstable/public housing residents

Arrest and Policing - Contact a Criminal Defense Attorney

Group: Legal Aid Society

If you, or someone you know, has been arrested and you have questions about a pending criminal case, contact your attorney or call the Criminal Defense Office in your borough to find out how to get he...
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Legal

Assistance with Supportive Housing

Group: NAICA

Call 718-538-3344, Monday-Friday. Housing advocacy in the areas of evictions, complaints, housing code violations, landlord/tenant and tenant/tenant mediation, and dispossession’s and foreclosures pre...
(718) 538-3344
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Housing Legal
Community Focus: People who are unhoused/housing unstable/public housing residents

Benefits Enrollment Counseling and Legal Assistance

Group: Child Center of NY

Single Stop provides free counseling on entitlements, health insurance, financial guidance, social services, and legal services. On-site health insurance and SNAP (“food stamp”) enrollment available....
(347) 804-1477
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Legal
Community Focus: Unemployed people People with low-income/limited income

Benefits screenings, financial counseling, legal consultation, and other services

Group: Goddard Riverside

Call 212-234-3481 on weekdays to make an appointment for the Resource Center, which provides benefits screenings, financial counseling, legal consultation, and support services for individuals and fam...
(212) 234-3481
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Legal
Community Focus: Unemployed people People with low-income/limited income

BronxWorks Economic and Social Services and Programs

Group: BronxWorks

BronxWorks provides a range of programs and services including help obtaining health insurance; family and adult shelter; eviction and prevention services; foster care prevention, senior homelessness...
(646) 393-4000
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Housing Jobs Safety from Violence Legal Eldercare
Community Focus: People who are unhoused/housing unstable/public housing residents People with disabilities and chronic illnesses/immuno-compromised Youth Unemployed people Seniors and elders Parents/guardians/caregivers Undocumented people/immigrants

Community Benefits Assistance - East New York

Group: Good Shepherd Services

Walk-in Tuesdays: 10am-3:30pm (No appointment necessary) Community Benefits Assistance (CBA) provides individuals and families with hands-on assistance in applying for public benefits. At our centers...
718-346-2200 Ext. 20006
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Legal
Community Focus: Unemployed people People with low-income/limited income

Community Economic Development Program for Community Groups and Nonprofit Legal Support

Group: Build Up Justice NYC

Attorneys provide both short-term legal advice and ongoing representation for community groups and nonprofits, offering a full range of transactional services including corporate formation, contract d...
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Legal
Community Focus: Coordinators of mutual aid efforts

Community Services for Tenants, Immigrants, Seniors, and Youth

Group: Asian Americans For Equality (AAFE)

Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) works with clients one-on-one to ensure their rights to safe and decent housing, to secure and extend appropriate government housing subsidies, to make sure they ha...
(212) 979-8988
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Housing Legal
Community Focus: People who are unhoused/housing unstable/public housing residents Youth Seniors and elders Undocumented people/immigrants

Consumer Debt, Tax & Small Business Help

Group: Legal Aid Society

For help with new and existing small businesses and not-for-profit organizations or existing HDFCs contact the Community Development Project at 212-298-3340, CommunityDevProject@legal-aid.org, or rese...
(212) 298-3340
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Money Legal

Counseling, Legal, and other Resources for People Experiencing Domestic Abuse

Group: The Retreat

All free & confidential services: 24/7 domestic violence crisis hotline at (631)329-2200, individual and group counseling, legal advocacy, a residential shelter for adults and children, and violence p...
(631) 329-2200
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Safety from Violence Legal
Community Focus: Survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence

Criminal-Immigration Helpline

Group: Immigrant Defense Project

Immigrants and their loved ones who are affected by the criminal system, including immigrants who have been arrested, ticketed, or convicted of a crime: call the helpline for limited immigration legal...
(212) 725-6422
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Legal
Community Focus: Undocumented people/immigrants

Eviction Prevention Program

Group: Coalition for the Homeless

People in danger of being evicted can call the Eviction Prevention Hotline at 888-850-2712 on Wednesday mornings beginning at 9:30 am. Appointments are limited and first-come, first-serve. To qualify...
(888) 850-2712
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Housing Legal
Community Focus: People who are unhoused/housing unstable/public housing residents People with low-income/limited income

Evictions Protections: Know Your Rights

Group: Right to Counsel NYC Coalition

Many COVID eviction protections expired in 2022. However, this Know Your Rights resource gives information about some protections that still exist and how to seek assistance to prevent eviction.
  • 406 West 40th St, 3rd Floor
Need Category: Housing Legal

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