Provides health education and supportive services to Los Angeles residents in reentry. Services include counseling, peer education, and assistance obtaining health coverage and public benefits.
Connecting FDAP clients, their loved ones and their advocates with services and resources for life beyond the appeal
Note: This list was created to augment the direct representation provided by our attorneys. We have tried to cover a broad range of issues and geographic locations. However, the landscape of California organizations and service providers is constantly changing. FDAP cannot guarantee that this list is exhaustive or fully up-to-date. An organization’s inclusion in this list is for information only and does not necessarily represent our endorsement of the services provided.
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
Legal services support center that advances and protects the rights of immigrants, refugees, children, and other marginalized communities.
Center for Restorative Justice Works
Aims to reconnect families separated by crime and the criminal legal system. Offers a statewide prison visiting program for children to visit their incarcerated parents, job training for formerly incarcerated people, and monthly volunteer prison visits.
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Offers reentry services to formerly incarcerated adults and youth in areas such as housing and employment.
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN-LA)
Provides low-cost immigration legal services.
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN-SF)
Provides low-cost immigration legal services.
Central California Legal Services (CCLS)
Legal assistance for low-income people related to healthcare, housing, family violence, employment, immigration, public benefits, seniors. and veterans.
Advances the rights of low-income communities, immigrants, and Black, Indigenous, and Latino people through legal representation, education, and bilingual outreach. Offers bilingual legal services in the areas of immigration, tenants’ rights, and workers’ rights.
Provides training on job preparation, resume creation, and interviewing. Connects program participants to temporary jobs and assists with work wardrobes, computer research, and transportation.
Works to improve the lives of unhoused people in San Francisco through community organizing, policy work, and direct outreach. Projects include the community newspaper Street Sheet, proceeds from which go directly to its unhoused and low-income vendors.
Special thanks to Root & Rebound and Prison Activist Resource Center, whose resource guides served in part as source material.
FDAP also wishes to thank and acknowledge the vision and dedication of Rashida Harmon, former associate staff attorney for FDAP, who devoted untold hours to bring this resource to fruition.