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Yakima County Volunteer Attorney ServicesĮxpanding outreach about pro bono legal services to members of the Spanish-speaking community in Yakima County, where Latinx people are half of the population.īuilding community power for migrant justice through pro bono and low bono legal services, advocacy, and education to combat the immigration detention and deportation systems. Providing people recently released from prison through the state clemency process with legal services and the other assistance they need to successfully reintegrate into society.Įnding disproportionate discipline of students of color and interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline through anti-racist organizing, leadership development, and advocacy that centers directly impacted parents and youth.Īssisting members of the refugee and immigrant community with limited English proficiency in gaining legal status and permission to work in the United States. Increasing community-centered legal support by and for Black, Indigenous, and people of color impacted by the legal system through organizing, mentoring, and leadership development. Working to shift power so Black, Indigenous, and people of color with disabilities can provide real input to King County and the State about healthcare needs and revising crisis standards of care. Supporting immigrants in Wenatchee and the surrounding area needing financial assistance with the costs of applying for DACA, US citizenship and replacement of permanent residency cards. Providing long-term, individualized support to men and women reentering the community after serving excessively long prison sentences, including: civil legal aid, employment assistance, counseling, training, education, and basic needs.īuilding power among incarcerated youth (up to age 25) by working directly with them to plan, develop, and begin constructing a law library that meets their needs to understand the law and change their circumstances.Įxpanding the availability of civil legal aid services for the BIPOC community in Spokane County while continuing to call the broader legal and justice system to examine and dismantle its racism. Increasing access to naturalization services among rural, immigrant, Latinx lawful permanent residents of the Yakima Valley, by training and equipping community fellows for Department of Justice accreditation.Įmpowering formerly incarcerated people of color and with low incomes to know and claim their rights to relief from the onerous court-imposed debt of legal financial obligations. Providing client-centered direct legal representation to Tulalip tribal member foster youth that addresses, supports, and protects the youth’s individual needs and goals.Ĭreating a Carl Maxey Race Equity Fellowship in Spokane to coordinate legal aid with BIPOC community organizations including a BIPOC Community Civil Legal Aid Summit.

#Pierce county relicensing program wa free#

Providing free legal services to BIPOC and low-income clients seeking to relieve the burden of legal financial obligations (LFOs), with the goal of reducing barriers to housing and relicensing.

Providing legal education and representation for Pacific County immigrants to secure legal status as residents. Pacific County Immigrant Support partnering with Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center Providing free representation for vulnerable immigrants in Eastern Washington who must travel to the Seattle immigration court for removal hearings and training the next generation of nonracist immigration lawyers.Īssisting low-income and immigrant survivors of domestic violence in Tacoma with legal advice and representation. Gonzaga University’s Removal Defense Project

Implementing strategies to shift DRW’s systemic civil justice advocacy to address inequities experienced by disabled BIPOC, especially at risk of criminalization, incarceration, or institutionalization.Įxpanding legal outreach and international human rights advocacy on behalf of asylum-seekers and other detainees at Northwest Processing Center. See all grantees from previous cycles below:Įxpanding the Community Connectors Program, a relationship-based outreach program in South King, Spokane, Yakima, and Pierce counties that compensates trusted community leaders to share culturally fluent information about COVID-related legal resources. The Race Equity Grant program had two funding cycles in 20.