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Iowa Legal Aid - Waterloo
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Waterloo
607 Sycamore, Suite 304, Waterloo, IA 50703
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.
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Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Arc of Buffalo County, The
Location Name
Arc of Buffalo County, The
4511 6th Avenue, Suite 204, Kearney, NE 68845
Information and referral regarding disabilities issues for those in South Central Nebraska.
Educational advocacy for students with disabilities.
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Iowa Legal Aid - Davenport
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Davenport
736 Federal Street, Suite 2309, Davenport, IA 52803
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.
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Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Iowa Legal Aid - Council Bluffs
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Council Bluffs
830 N 14th, Suite 301, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Equip for Equality - Central Illinois
Location Name
Equip for Equality - Central Illinois
1 West Old State Capitol Plaza, Suite 500, Springfield, IL 62701
Advocacy organization providing free legal services and self-advocacy assistance to people with disabilities in the areas of discrimination, assistive technology, special education, guardianship defense, abuse and neglect, and community integration. Training is available to people with disabilities and family members on topics including the Americans with Disabilities Act, employment, transportation, voting, Ticket to Work, special education and guardianship. Engages in public policy and legislative advocacy.
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Iowa Legal Aid - Iowa City
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Iowa City
125 South Dubuque Street, Suite 4A, Iowa City, IA 52240
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Iowa Legal Aid - Mason City
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Mason City
202 1st Street SE, Suite 112, Mason City, IA 50401
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Iowa Legal Aid - Des Moines
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Des Moines
666 Walnut Street, 25th Floor, Des Moines, IA 50309
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Military Child Education Coalition
Location Name
Military Child Education Coalition
909 Mountain Lion Circle, Harker Heights, TX 76548
Supports all military-connected children by educating, advocating, and collaborating to resolve education challenges associated with the military lifestyle. The website lists programs, resources, and downloadable guides for parents and students to help them navigate a military family's unique needs and challenges.
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Iowa Legal Aid - Ottumwa
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Ottumwa
112 East 3rd Street, Ottumwa, IA 52501
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Iowa Legal Aid - Sioux City
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Sioux City
507 7th Street, Suite 400, Sioux City, IA 51101
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Safe Haven Community Center
Location Name
Safe Haven Community Center
2895 Binney Street, Omaha, NE 68111
Tutoring for children under age 12 from low income families. Dyslexia tutoring available.
Job readiness training class and work experience training and community service opportunities available. Transportation to job fairs (must meet qualifications; determined upon intake). Computer lab available to fill out applications on line. GED classes and adult dyslexia tutoring also available.
Workshops and classes related to financial education.
Helps parents advocate on behalf of their children with learning disabilities. Right to Educate advocate for students with special needs, including dyslexia.
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Kids First Law Center
Location Name
Kids First Law Center
Sister Mary Lawrence Community Center, 420 6th Street SE, Suite 160, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Kids First's Youth Peace Project (YPP) provides services in the Cedar Rapids Community School District. YPP uses restorative practices to resolve conflict that arises between students or between students and staff.
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Iowa Legal Aid - Cedar Rapids
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Cedar Rapids
317 Seventh Avenue SE, Suite 404, Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Iowa Legal Aid - Dubuque
Location Name
Iowa Legal Aid - Dubuque
744 Main Street, Suite 1, Dubuque, IA 52001
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.
Data provided by
United Way of the Midlands
What's Here
Debt ManagementPatient Rights AssistanceVeteran Benefits AssistanceHuman Trafficking Legal AssistanceWelfare Rights AssistanceConsumer LawLabor and Employment LawSchool System AdvocacyDiscrimination AssistanceTax InformationProtection and Advocacy for Individuals With DisabilitiesProtective/Restraining OrdersAdvance Medical DirectivesCertificates/Forms AssistanceChild Custody/Visitation AssistanceDomestic/Family Violence Legal ServicesLegal Information ServicesWill Preparation AssistanceLandlord/Tenant AssistanceGeneral Legal AidAdoption Legal ServicesChild Support Assistance/EnforcementLegal Representation
Equip for Equality - Southern Illinois
Location Name
Equip for Equality - Southern Illinois
300 East Main Street, Suite 18, Carbondale, IL 62901
Advocacy organization providing free legal services and self-advocacy assistance to people with disabilities in the areas of discrimination, assistive technology, special education, guardianship defense, abuse and neglect, and community integration. Training is available to people with disabilities and family members on topics including the Americans with Disabilities Act, employment, transportation, voting, Ticket to Work, special education and guardianship. Engages in public policy and legislative advocacy.
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Equip for Equality - Northeastern Illinois
Location Name
Equip for Equality - Northeastern Illinois
20 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60602
Advocacy organization providing free legal services and self-advocacy assistance to people with disabilities in the areas of discrimination, assistive technology, special education, guardianship defense, abuse and neglect, and community integration. Training is available to people with disabilities and family members on topics including the Americans with Disabilities Act, employment, transportation, voting, Ticket to Work, special education and guardianship. Engages in public policy and legislative advocacy.
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