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Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

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Legal Representation
Individual Advocacy
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
General Legal Aid
Bankruptcy Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Welfare Rights Assistance
Housing Complaints
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Elder Law
Discrimination Assistance
Assists individuals who believe they have experienced housing discrimination.
Operates a complaint line for reporting civil rights violations in health care and social services based on race, national origin, disability, or age. Specialists investigate and refer cases outside their jurisdiction. Free complaint forms and fact sheets are available. Covers hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, Medicaid/Medicare, welfare programs, daycares, doctors' offices, pharmacies, children's health programs, addiction centers, adoption agencies, and mental health services.

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Discrimination Assistance
Nursing Facility Complaints
Outpatient Clinic Complaints
Mental Health Facility Complaints
Works with individuals, community groups, and government agencies to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights historically denied based on race. This also includes upholding racial equality, combating racism in all forms through community organizing, training, legislative initiative, and public education, and address the broad spectrum of issues disproportionately and negatively impacting people of color.
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

Categories

Legal Representation
Individual Advocacy
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
General Legal Aid
Bankruptcy Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Welfare Rights Assistance
Housing Complaints
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Elder Law
Discrimination Assistance
Enables individuals to file an online complaint about housing discrimination, covering various processes such as apartment rental, home buying, and mortgages. Staff review submitted complaints to determine jurisdiction under civil rights laws, contacting clients for further details or to aid in filing an official discrimination complaint.
Provides assistance for individuals discriminated against by an employer, labor union or employment agency when applying for a job or while on the job because of your race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
Aims to improve the social and economic status of minority groups, eliminate prejudice, and keep the public aware of adverse effects of racial discrimination. Provides assistance and links to referrals within the community network.

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Discrimination Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Advocacy promotes and ensures the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the community. The staff directs efforts toward working with individual consumers, who face difficulties in areas of housing, employment, transportation, remaining independent in the homes, assists with completing applications for immigration, Social Security, and other financial benefit programs. Special services are also offered for underserved minorities who have disabilities.

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Discrimination Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Provides individuals with disabilities information on how to file a discrimination complaint against a government office or any business open to the public. Provides online and over the phone support for filing complaints.

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General Consumer Complaints
Discrimination Assistance
Government Complaints/Government Ombudsman Offices
Aims to ensure fair housing policies residents. Provides assistance on filing housing discrimination complaints, referrals on housing issues, education, training and technical assistance for individuals, groups, institutions and other interested parties.
Provides information, advocacy, legal representation, and outreach for individuals with mental illness. It addresses areas like assistive technology, discrimination, health care, institutional abuse, and special education.

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Mental Illness/Emotional Disabilities
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Legal Representation
Special Education Advocacy
Discrimination Assistance
Individual Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Provides information on housing. This includes discrimination in housing, tenant-landlord disputes, tenant-landlord rights, and Section 8 regulations to all residents of the coverage area.

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Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Discrimination Assistance
Housing Complaints
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

Categories

Legal Representation
Individual Advocacy
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
General Legal Aid
Bankruptcy Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Welfare Rights Assistance
Housing Complaints
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Elder Law
Discrimination Assistance
Advocacy promotes and ensures the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the community. The staff directs efforts toward working with individual consumers, who face difficulties in areas of housing, employment, transportation, remaining independent in the homes, assists with completing applications for immigration, Social Security, and other financial benefit programs. Special services are also offered for underserved minorities who have disabilities.

Categories

General Benefits and Services Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Discrimination Assistance
Enables victims of housing discrimination to file a complaint through the Fair Housing Council of Northern New Jersey. Legal assistance may be available through the agency in following up with a fair housing complaint.