Give Bay Area kids a voice!
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Legal Services for Children helps Bay Area kids find stability and thrive. We need your help!
Every year more than 1,000 low-income Bay Area youth turn to LSC at a time of crisis in their lives. Many are unable to live with their parents for reasons that include illness, incarceration, substance abuse, and physical violence. Our immigrant clients have fled their home countries and come to the U.S. on their own in order to escape neglect, abuse, and persecution. Some of our clients are in trouble at school, failing academically, and about to be expelled. Still other clients are at-risk for juvenile justice involvement.
Here is what we do to help:
Freedom from Deportation
We believe that children and youth cannot reach their full potential if they live in fear of deportation. We represent children in immigration cases to ensure that they can remain in a safe place with access to opportunity.
Safety and Stability at Home
We believe all children deserve safe and stable homes and where they have access to educational and health opportunities. We represent children in guardianship and foster care cases to ensure that they have the stability they need to thrive.
Access to Education
We believe that school discipline is a major driving force in the inequitable educational outcomes faced by low income children and children of color. We represent Bay Area students in expulsion hearings in order to ensure access to education and to work against educational inequity.
Holistic Services
We believe that legal interventions alone are ineffective to change the lives of our clients. We use an interdisciplinary approach that includes social work services to ensure that clients’ physical health, mental health, educational, and other needs are met so that they can recover from trauma and truly flourish.
Thank you so much for your help!!!
Every year more than 1,000 low-income Bay Area youth turn to LSC at a time of crisis in their lives. Many are unable to live with their parents for reasons that include illness, incarceration, substance abuse, and physical violence. Our immigrant clients have fled their home countries and come to the U.S. on their own in order to escape neglect, abuse, and persecution. Some of our clients are in trouble at school, failing academically, and about to be expelled. Still other clients are at-risk for juvenile justice involvement.
Here is what we do to help:
Freedom from Deportation
We believe that children and youth cannot reach their full potential if they live in fear of deportation. We represent children in immigration cases to ensure that they can remain in a safe place with access to opportunity.
Safety and Stability at Home
We believe all children deserve safe and stable homes and where they have access to educational and health opportunities. We represent children in guardianship and foster care cases to ensure that they have the stability they need to thrive.
Access to Education
We believe that school discipline is a major driving force in the inequitable educational outcomes faced by low income children and children of color. We represent Bay Area students in expulsion hearings in order to ensure access to education and to work against educational inequity.
Holistic Services
We believe that legal interventions alone are ineffective to change the lives of our clients. We use an interdisciplinary approach that includes social work services to ensure that clients’ physical health, mental health, educational, and other needs are met so that they can recover from trauma and truly flourish.
Thank you so much for your help!!!
Organizer
Sanjay Melwani
Organizer
Berkeley, CA
LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
