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Organization Name: Legal Services of South Central Michigan
Organization Overview: Legal Services of South Central Michigan (LSSCM) provides free legal advice and representation in certain civil cases to approximately 10,000 low income persons and senior citizens (regardless of income) each year.
We provide general civil legal services to low-income and senior citizens of Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Monroe, Shiawassee, and Washtenaw Counties. We also provide legal services to senior citizens of St. Joseph County.
We also operate two statewide programs - Farmworker Legal Services (FLS), which provides services to migrant and seasonal farm workers and the Michigan Poverty Law Program (MPLP), which provides case consultation, training, technology and other support to local legal services programs throughout the state.
LSSCM is committed to treating all applicants with respect. LSSCM policies prohibit discrimination in any aspect of the program or its services.
LSSCM is staffed by attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, law students and community volunteers.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All
Street: 420 N. Fourth Ave
City/Township: Ann Arbor
State: MI
Zip Code: 48104
Country: USA
Phone: (734) 665-6181
Fax No: (734) 665-2974
Website: http://www.lsscm.org/
Organization Name: Farmworker Legal Services of Michigan
Organization Overview: Farmworker Legal Services (FLS) is a legal aid office with attorneys and other legal staff who provide free legal assistance and referrals to migrant and seasonal farmworkers throughout the state of Michigan. FLS is a division of Legal Services of South Central Michigan, a non-profit organization funded primarily by the federal Legal Services Corporation.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All,American,Hispanic,Latin American
Street: 3030 S. Ninth St, Suite 1A
City/Township: Kalamazoo
State: Michigan
Zip Code: 49009
Country: USA
Phone: (269) 492-7190
Fax No: (269) 492-7198
Email: fls@lsscm.org
Website: http://www.farmworkerlaw.org/
Organization Name: Michigan Immigrants Rights Center (Ann Arbor office)
Organization Overview: The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) is a resource center for advocates seeking equal justice for Michigan's immigrants. MIRC works to build a thriving Michigan where immigrant communities are fully integrated and respected.
In order to realize this mission the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center:
Builds capacity through education and training about immigration law and the complex relationship between immigration status and immigrants' rights in areas including access to public benefits, family law and child welfare, civil rights, and worker's rights.
Answers questions and provides technical support to attorneys and advocates serving low-income immigrants.
Recruits, trains, and mentors volunteer pro bono attorneys.
Leads systematic advocacy to advance the rights of low-income immigrants and their families.
Tracks and analyzes legislative and legal developments related to immigration law and immigrants' rights.
Builds coalition among immigrant advocacy and other social justice and civil rights organizations statewide.
Represents individual clients in priority areas including naturalization and citizenship matters and the rights of survivors of domestic violence, refugees, and unaccompanied minors.
Promotes respect and understanding among immigrants and receiving communities through our Welcoming Michigan initiative.
Represents clients in impact cases involving violations of civil rights by law enforcement or government entities, access to public benefits for immigrants and children of immigrants, the unauthorized practice of immigration law, and any other civil legal issue relating to immigration status.
The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center is one of several statewide advocacy programs created by the Michigan Advocacy Program, formerly Legal Services of South Central Michigan. The Michigan Advocacy Program's direct service components are Legal Services of South Central Michigan and Farmworker Legal Services. MAP provides administrative services to several statewide programs, including MIRC. These statewide programs are all housed at Michigan PLP, LLC.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All
Street: 220 E. Huron Street, Suite 600A
City/Township: Ann Arbor
State: MI
Zip Code: 48104
Country: USA
Phone: (734) 239-6863
Fax No: (734) 998-9125
Email: mirc@michiganimmigrant.org
Website: http://michiganimmigrant.org/
Organization Name: Michigan Poverty Law Program
Organization Overview: MPLP is a cooperative effort between Legal Services of South Central Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School (UMLS). Our goals are: to support the advocacy of field programs; to coordinate advocacy for the poor among the local programs; and to assure that a full range of advocacy continues on behalf of the poor. MPLP provides state support services to local legal services programs and other poverty law advocates.
MPLP is legally and programmatically separate from, but coordinates its work with the UMLS Clinical Law Program and the Michigan League for Human Services.
Street: 220 E. Huron Street, Suite 600a
City/Township: Ann Arbor
State: MI
Zip Code: 48104
Country: USA
Phone: (734) 998-6100
Website: http://www.mplp.org/
