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Additional Resources
Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC)
Provides mediation and conciliation services for neighbor-neighbor, landlord-tenant, consumer-merchant, etc. with Asian Pacific languages. www.apadrc.org
Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC)
Provides legal aid for Asian Pacific communities. www.apalc.org
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Defends and secures the rights in the Constitution and Bill of Rights through lobbying, education, and litigation. www.aclu.org
Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
The mission of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice is to research, develop and advance innovative criminal and juvenile justice law and policy approaches through collaboration with and among scholars, policymakers and practitioners. http://www.law.berkeley.edu/bccj.htm
California Cities Gang Prevention Network
The first of its kind in the nation, the CCGPN focuses on successful policies and practices that interweave prevention, intervention, enforcement, and a community's "moral voice" as an alternative to prison-only solutions. www.ccgpn.orgCalifornia Innocence Project
A national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. www.innocenceproject.org
California Prison Focus
Works to end human rights abuses and torture in California prisons including abolishing the Security Housing Units, ending medical neglect and insuring civil and human rights for all prisoners. www.prisons.org
California Women’s Law Center
CWLC works to ensure, through systemic change, that life opportunities for women and girls are free from unjust social, economic, and political constraints. www.cwlc.org
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Mission: To enhance and expand delivery of legal services to indigent and low-income immigrants principally through diocesan immigration programs and to meet the immigration needs identified by the Catholic Church in the United States. www.cliniclegal.org
Central American Resource Center
CARECEN is firmly committed to meeting the direct needs of the immigrant community through direct service, and to addressing the root causes that create the need for service through advocacy and organizing. www.carecen-la.org
Center for Digital Storytelling
An international not-for-profit community arts organization rooted in the craft of personal storytelling. They assist youth and adults around the world in using media tools to share, record, and value stories from their lives, in ways that promote artistic expression, health and well being, and justice. www.storycenter.org
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
The Center is a state-wide support center with recognized expertise in complex litigation and the substantive law relating to immigrants, refugees, children and the poor. www.centerforhumanrights.org
The Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention (the Center)
The Center is one of eight Academic Centers for Excellence nationwide funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address youth violence. www.yvpcenter.org
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
CJCJ is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization promoting a balanced and humane criminal justice system through the provision of direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis. www.cjcj.org
Centro Legal de la Raza
A comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of immigrant, low-income and Latino communities through bilingual legal representation, education, community organizing and advocacy. www.centrolegal.org
Centurion Ministries (CM)
A secular non-profit organization with a full-time paid staff of five employees, including an investigator in Seattle. Centurion Ministries has a national network of attorneys and forensic experts who ably assist us in work on behalf of the convicted innocent throughout the U.S. and Canada. www.centurionministries.org
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. www.cair.com
East Bay Asian Youth Center
(EBAYC) is a community-building organization dedicated to inspiring young people to be life-long builders of a just and compassionate multi-cultural society. www.ebayc.org
El Rescate
Offers low cost and free legal assistance and representation to victims of torture seeking asylum and other immigration services. www.elrescate.org
Human Rights Watch
Dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. www.hrw.org
Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute)
A special entity within the National League of Cities (NLC), helps municipal leaders take action on behalf of the children, youth, and families in their communities. www.nlc.org/iyef
La Clínica
The mission of La Clínica is to improve the quality of life of the diverse communities we serve by providing culturally appropriate, high quality, and accessible health care for all. www.laclinica.org
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
LSPC advocates for the human rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration. They respond to requests for information, trainings, technical assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more advocates. www.prisonerswithchildren.org
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
strives to implement programs that are structured to bring Latinos into the mainstream of American political and socio-economic life; providing better educational opportunities; encouraging participation in all aspects of society; and offering a positive vision for the future. www.maldef.org
National Council of La Raza
The largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, NCLR works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. www.nclr.org
National Immigration Law Center
Pro-bono attorneys dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of low income immigrants and their family members through policy analysis and advocacy, impact litigation, building coalitions and capacity, technical assistance, trainings and conferences, and publications.www.nilc.org
National League of Cities
NLC is the oldest and largest national organization representing municipal governments throughout the United States. Its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance. www.nlc.org
Public Counsel
The largest pro bono public interest law firm in the world. Founded in 1970, Public Counsel is dedicated to advancing equal justice under law by delivering free legal and social services to the most vulnerable members of our community, including abused and abandoned children, homeless families and veterans, senior citizens, victims of consumer fraud and nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities. www.publiccounsel.org
Prison Law Office
Protects the Constitutional Rights of California Prisoners through Class Action Litigation, Legal Services and Advocacy. www.prisonlaw.com
Relief International
RI dedicates itself to seeking and addressing the long-term developmental needs of its beneficiaries even while in the emergency phase. The agency recognizes that disasters have the most negative impact on the lives of the poor; yet disasters, and especially the movement of the populations, can also bring about unexpected, positive social change. This context can therefore serve as a window of opportunity for eradicating poverty and social injustice. www.ri.org
The SAGE Project—Standing Against Global Exploitation
One of the few organizations that is survivor-centric: it was founded by a commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) survivor, is designed for and run predominantly by survivors, and offers legislators, law enforcement, and others interested in CSE information a valuable survivor-oriented perspective. www.sagesf.org
Suicide Crisis Center
Finding a Therapist
Youth Law Center
A public interest law firm that works to protect children in the nation's foster care and juvenile justice systems from abuse and neglect. www.ylc.org