Offers free legal services to low-income people in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Service areas include divorce, child custody, visitation, conservatorship, eviction and foreclosure, housing discrimination, and criminal record expungement.
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.
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
Offers criminal record expungement, eviction defense, and immigration assistance.
Provides transformation programs for incarcerated people and the survivors of their harm, restorative reentry programs, and youth-focused diversion programs.
David Lewis Community Reentry Center
Offers medical care, life skills training, and job search assistance to people on probation and parole.
Training program for currently and formerly incarcerated people. Classes emphasize employment, entrepreneurship, skills training, and personal development. Northern California branch services Avenal State Prison, Central California Women’s Facility, Correctional Training Facility, Salinas Valley State Prison, and Valley State Prison. Southern California branch services California Correctional Institution, California Institution for Women, California Rehabilitation Center, California State Prison, Los Angeles County, Kern Valley State Prison, and Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.
Self-help organization and residential facility supporting people in reentry, unhoused people, and people struggling with substance abuse.
Assists currently and formerly incarcerated veterans with access to benefits, healthcare, employment, and education.
Family Resource Center striving to reduce and prevent child abuse and provide supportive services to children and families in Dixon and the surrounding rural areas.
Offers direct legal services in the areas of criminal record expungement, healthcare, public benefits, housing, immigration, and youth justice.
National legal organization that advocates for Black, Indigenous, and marginalized people of all identities, including those impacted by the criminal legal system.
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.