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Equip for Equality provides free or low-cost legal assistance related to housing, including eviction prevention, issues related to self-determination, tenants' rights, preserving housing subsidies, employment discrimination based on disability, and housing discrimination.The legal team will review the information at a weekly case assessment meeting. They will evaluate whether your request is within their case selection criteria, whether the case has merit, and whether they have enough resources to give you the type of help you're seeking.

Services

Housing Discrimination Assistance
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Adult Guardianship Assistance
Employment Discrimination Assistance
Personal Injury Assistance
Health Care Discrimination Assistance
Special Education Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Subsidized housing, fair housing, homelessness resources and discrimination concerns.

Services

Discrimination Assistance
Government Subsidized Private Rental Housing Listings
Public Housing
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Services

Advance Medical Directives
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Consumer Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Discrimination Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
General Legal Aid
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Legal Representation
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Information Services
Debt Management

Provides assistance to out-of-school youth who are overcoming barriers to employment that might include lacking skills to obtain high school diploma, high school equivalency certificate, low income, homelessness, involvement with the judicial system, transportation barriers.

Participants spend half their time in academic programming and half in learning skills in construction or urban agriculture, including building or rehabilitating housing for low-income families.

Leadership development involves classes, activities, and leadership positions within the organization, providing a foundation for preparing youth to play important roles in their communities.

Please attend the on-line orientation and fill out the on-line application or call.

Orientation Link:
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Services

On the Job Training
Transportation Expense Assistance
Dropout Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Discrimination Assistance
Primary responsibility is to receive and provide confidential investigation and conciliation of complaints alleging unlawful discriminatory practices.

Services

Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
County Government Departments/Offices
Discrimination Assistance
Equip for Equality provides free or low-cost legal assistance related to housing, including eviction prevention, issues related to self-determination, tenants' rights, preserving housing subsidies, employment discrimination based on disability, and housing discrimination.The legal team will review the information at a weekly case assessment meeting. They will evaluate whether your request is within their case selection criteria, whether the case has merit, and whether they have enough resources to give you the type of help you're seeking.

Services

Housing Discrimination Assistance
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Adult Guardianship Assistance
Employment Discrimination Assistance
Personal Injury Assistance
Health Care Discrimination Assistance
Special Education Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Equip for Equality provides free or low-cost legal assistance related to housing, including eviction prevention, issues related to self-determination, tenants' rights, preserving housing subsidies, employment discrimination based on disability, and housing discrimination.The legal team will review the information at a weekly case assessment meeting. They will evaluate whether your request is within their case selection criteria, whether the case has merit, and whether they have enough resources to give you the type of help you're seeking.

Services

Housing Discrimination Assistance
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Adult Guardianship Assistance
Employment Discrimination Assistance
Personal Injury Assistance
Health Care Discrimination Assistance
Special Education Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Protection of individuals with disabilities when their civil and human rights are denied, especially those who are most vulnerable or who learn, live, or work in isolated, segregated, or congregated settings.

Legal advocacy, investigation, and representation to eligible persons whose disability related cases meet priorities set by our Board of Directors.

Information and referral.

Engaging people with disabilities in advocacy through education, information and training that builds self-advocacy skills, awareness, and understanding.

Policy advocacy, including analysis, monitoring, and recommend changes to state and federal legislation.

Services

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disability Rights Groups
Discrimination Assistance
SSHC serves clients who feel mistreated by housing providers, lenders, realtors, appraisers, property management companies, condominium and homeowner's associations, and more. As a regional fair housing enforcement agency, they advocate for your rights under the federal Fair Housing Act, Illinois Human Rights Act, Cook County Human Rights Ordinance, as well as other state and local housing laws.
The Commission investigates, mediates and, if warranted, adjudicates violations of the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance that protects all people in the County from discrimination and harassment in employment, public accommodations, housing, credit transactions, and County facilities, programs and services.

Services

Accessibility Related Standards/Legislation Compliance
Customer Service Discrimination Assistance
Employment Discrimination Assistance
Housing Discrimination Assistance

Ensures the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and works to eliminate race-based discrimination.

Services

Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Discrimination Assistance
Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Discrimination complaint filing for incidents that occur in Council Bluffs.

Housing discrimination complaint referrals in Council Bluffs.

Safeguards the rights of all employed persons in the State to obtain and hold employment without discrimination resulting from one or more of the protected basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), disability, marital status, age, retaliation, or equal pay.

Eliminates unlawful discrimination in the acquisition, ownership, possession, or enjoyment of housing in Nebraska.

Ensures the full and equal enjoyment of any place of public accommodation without subjection to unlawful discrimination, race, creed, colon, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, and retaliation.

Receives and investigates charges of unlawful discrimination practices in Nebraska relating to employment, housing, and public accommodations.

Education, mediation, and conciliation, attempting to eliminate unlawful discrimination.

Holds public hearings and makes case referrals for litigation through the Attorney General's office to carry out the purposes of the statutes administered by NEOC.

Serves persons who are victims of alleged unlawful discrimination by employer, union, provider of housing, housing financier, or public proprietor due to membership in designated protected classes.

Training is provided in these areas free of charge.

Services

Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Discrimination Assistance
Provides programs, workshops and cultural events to support immigrants and Latinos, including discrimination and housing assistance.
Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) implementing and enforcing laws to battle housing discrimination. Other services include investigating fair housing complaints, conducting compliance reviews, and protecting civil rights in HUD programs.

Services

Housing Discrimination Assistance
Provides programs and assistance with workplace issues like wage theft and discrimination for immigrants.
Accepts and investigates discrimination charges in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, financial credit and sexual harassment in education. Litigates housing discrimination charges before the Illinois Human Rights Commission.

Assistance for people who want to register complaints or have other concerns with departments of city government.

Title VI compliance official investigating, documenting all constituent reports of discrimination by StarTran, Lincoln's public transit services and other divisions that have contact with the public.

Administers the city's online service request reporting system, Acting with Citizens To Improve Our Neighborhoods (ACTION) Center, providing in-depth responses to concerns that become complex. People can find out about the laws that deal with their concern and report to the appropriate department any violations or problems they see in the community.

Problem Resolution Team, comprised of all City enforcement and codes compliance agencies and departments, brings problem properties back into compliance with local law.

Services

Discrimination Assistance
General Crime Reporting
Consumer Complaints
Free legal services to people with civil rights issues focused on Educational Equity for children in CPS, Housing discrimination, Voting rights issues, and nonprofit organizations and small businesses needing assistance with transactional issues.
The Law Project - Assists homeless students and families by providing legal aid for education related issues, including residency disputes and fee waivers.
The Housing Law Practice at North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic (NSLAC) works with clients to help them regain stability in their lives in the face of housing insecurity. We know that a lack of secure housing can pose a severe threat to the well-being of renters and their families.

Services

Housing Complaints
Rental Security Deposit Complaints
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Housing Discrimination Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance

Legal representation for matters involving fair housing. Types of cases that would be considered include:

-- A refusal to rent on the basis of a particular trait or status (race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, familial status).

-- Offering housing on different terms on those bases than for others.

-- Steering people to housing elsewhere.

-- Treatment of tenants differently due to one of the above mentioned traits or statuses.

-- Issues with requests for reasonable accommodations in housing due to disability.

Investigates discrimination in housing as related to rental, sales, and lending transactions.

Inservice programs on fair housing laws for housing providers, human service agencies, etc.

Public education to help the public understand how the Fair Housing Laws protect people.

Community program development to address housing discrimination.

Information on landlord and tenant rights.

Services

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Housing Counseling
Protection of individuals with disabilities when their civil and human rights are denied, especially those who are most vulnerable or who learn, live, or work in isolated, segregated, or congregated settings.

Legal advocacy, investigation, and representation to eligible persons whose disability related cases meet priorities set by our Board of Directors.

Information and referral.

Engaging people with disabilities in advocacy through education, information and training that builds self-advocacy skills, awareness, and understanding.

Policy advocacy, including analysis, monitoring, and recommend changes to state and federal legislation.

Services

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disability Rights Groups
Discrimination Assistance
Responsible for enforcing the City's Human Rights Ordinance which prohibits discrimination in the areas of employment, education, housing, public accommodations and credit. Enforcement duties include investigating discrimination complaints and determining the merits or the complaint. If discrimination has been found to have occurred, the coordinator attempts to eliminate the discriminatory practice in a manner that is acceptable to all parties.

Services

Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups