Legal Information and Referrals - Farmworker & Landscaper Advocacy Project - Evanston Office
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project relies on a network of more than 225 organizations and qualified attorneys to handle legal cases in Illinois. This network of attorneys and organizations allows FLAP to provide low-income workers who have suffered damages without receiving any compensation with reliable legal assistance. FLAP gives information to low-income workers and makes referrals to other organizations and skilled litigation attorneys with extensive experience in areas including but not limited to: employment, personal injury, consumer, nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, education, housing, wrongful death, birth injury, product liability, car, trucking, bus, and aviation accidents, premises liability, Federal Torts Claims Act, Assisted Living Negligence, home health care abuse and neglect, DUI, Social Security Disability, family law, Immigration, Breach of Contracts, medical malpractice and workers compensation among others.
Date of Last Formal Update
12/07/2022
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211 Metro Chicago
Languages
Spanish
English
Service area
IL
Agency info
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project
The Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project-Proyecto de Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros-FLAP's mission is to improve working conditions and opportunities for low-income workers and their households in the cannery, farms, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants, and snow plowing industries. The organization carries out its mission through advocacy, community outreach and education, litigation, community legal education, information and referrals, partnering with other organizations to fight human labor trafficking, preventing family separations by helping immigrants secure dual citizenship for their children, and facilitating access to cash transfers to very low-income populations. FLAP provides these services free of charge and without regard to immigration status.