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Ensures the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and works to eliminate race-based discrimination.

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Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Ethnic Advocacy Groups
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.

Categories

General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Responsible for enforcing the City's Human Rights Ordinance which prohibits discrimination in the areas of employment, education, housing, public accommodations and credit. Enforcement duties include investigating discrimination complaints and determining the merits or the complaint. If discrimination has been found to have occurred, the coordinator attempts to eliminate the discriminatory practice in a manner that is acceptable to all parties.

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Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Statewide agency that receives complaints of discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, mental or physical disability, familial status (in housing and credit), marital status (in credit), pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or sex. The Commission has jurisdiction in the areas of employment, education, housing, public accommodations and credit. The Commission does not provide legal representation.

Provides training and education in civil rights and anti-discrimination laws to individuals and stakeholder organizations.

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Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups

Investigates complaints of discrimination in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations, and financing.

Offers to investigate and resolve complaints of discrimination in housing, employment, public accommodations, and city services within the Urbana city limits.

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.

Categories

General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Provides assistance to out-of-school youth who are overcoming barriers to employment that might include lacking skills to obtain high school diploma, high school equivalency certificate, low income, homelessness, involvement with the judicial system, transportation barriers.

Participants spend half their time in academic programming and half in learning skills in construction or urban agriculture, including building or rehabilitating housing for low-income families.

Leadership development involves classes, activities, and leadership positions within the organization, providing a foundation for preparing youth to play important roles in their communities.

Please attend the on-line orientation and fill out the on-line application or call.

Orientation Link:
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High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Dropout Programs
Transportation Expense Assistance
On the Job Training
Discrimination Assistance

Safeguards the rights of all employed persons in the State to obtain and hold employment without discrimination resulting from one or more of the protected basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), disability, marital status, age, retaliation, or equal pay.

Eliminates unlawful discrimination in the acquisition, ownership, possession, or enjoyment of housing in Nebraska.

Ensures the full and equal enjoyment of any place of public accommodation without subjection to unlawful discrimination, race, creed, colon, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, and retaliation.

Receives and investigates charges of unlawful discrimination practices in Nebraska relating to employment, housing, and public accommodations.

Education, mediation, and conciliation, attempting to eliminate unlawful discrimination.

Holds public hearings and makes case referrals for litigation through the Attorney General's office to carry out the purposes of the statutes administered by NEOC.

Serves persons who are victims of alleged unlawful discrimination by employer, union, provider of housing, housing financier, or public proprietor due to membership in designated protected classes.

Training is provided in these areas free of charge.

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.

Categories

General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Administers the Illinois Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (with regard to employment), familial status (with regard to real estate transactions), age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military service, and unfavorable military discharge. The website includes forms, instructions, and links to numerous other related websites as well as detailed information on how the discrimination charge process works.

Also maintains a helpline for assistance specifically with sexual harassment and discrimination.

Assists minority clients (immigrant, refugees, vulnerable populations) with case management in five areas: food security, employment, mental and physical health care access, housing and immigration legal status. May help resolve any issue for a newcomer, either on-site or with the assistance of our partnering organizations and businesses.

Clients can access services via appointment in Arabic, English, French, Somali and Spanish. The agency does not provide interpretation or translation services to agencies or businesses.

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Language Translation
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Language Interpretation
Handles complaints of unlawful discrimination or sexual harassment.

Human relations education.

Mediation for any level of conflict resolution.

Team building exercises.

Provides education and outreach services, receives, investigates, and acts on alleged discrimination complaints, and provides referrals to Iowa Civil Rights Commission.

Categories

Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
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.

Categories

General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Safeguards the rights of all employed persons in the State to obtain and hold employment without discrimination resulting from one or more of the protected basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), disability, marital status, age, retaliation, or equal pay.

Eliminates unlawful discrimination in the acquisition, ownership, possession, or enjoyment of housing in Nebraska.

Ensures the full and equal enjoyment of any place of public accommodation without subjection to unlawful discrimination, race, creed, colon, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, and retaliation.

Receives and investigates charges of unlawful discrimination practices in Nebraska relating to employment, housing, and public accommodations.

Education, mediation, and conciliation, attempting to eliminate unlawful discrimination.

Holds public hearings and makes case referrals for litigation through the Attorney General's office to carry out the purposes of the statutes administered by NEOC.

Serves persons who are victims of alleged unlawful discrimination by employer, union, provider of housing, housing financier, or public proprietor due to membership in designated protected classes.

Training is provided in these areas free of charge.

Categories

Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Receives and investigates complaints of discrimination due to race, color, sex, national origin, disabilities, religion, age, familial or marital status, ancestry, and retaliation.

Investigates equal employment, fair housing, and public accommodations complaints, and if the evidence supports a cause finding, addresses remedies for the situation.

Outreach and training available in civil rights laws for employers, employees, and other interested groups.

Categories

Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
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.

Categories

General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Investigates complaints in employment, housing, credit, education and public accommodations alleging discrimination on the basis of age, color, creed, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, sex ,sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, or gender identity.

Categories

Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Protects civil liberties of all citizens including freedom of expression, religious liberty, right to privacy and equal protection under the law.

Reviews claims of violations of constitutional freedoms.

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Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Discrimination Assistance
Recruits and supports citizens to act as advocates to speak out for and support those with developmental disabilities in long-term, one-on-one relationships.

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Disability Rights Groups
Discrimination Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Primary responsibility is to receive and provide confidential investigation and conciliation of complaints alleging unlawful discriminatory practices.

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Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
County Government Departments/Offices
The Sioux City Human Rights Commission (SCHRC) is a neutral fact-finding agency that investigates complaints of discrimination. We only investigate cases of alleged discrimination that have both occurred in Sioux City and within the last 300 days. If the issue occurred outside city limits, we can make a referral to an appropriate agency.
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.

Categories

General Legal Aid
Protective/Restraining Orders
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Consumer Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Adoption Legal Services
School System Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Serves as a neutral, fact-finding, investigative agency and provides information regarding civil and human rights. The Commission investigates complaints of discrimination that occurred within the City of Des Moines in accordance with City Code (Chapter 62) in the following areas: Employment, Housing, Municipal Practices, Credit and Public Accommodations.

Complaints must be filed within 300 days of the alleged violation. To file, one must allege a difference of treatment based on their age, familial status (in housing only), race, color, creed, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, religion, mental or physical disability, or retaliation for reporting or assisting with a report of discrimination in the areas of employment, housing, credit, and public accommodations.

Also provides trainings and education for landlords, employers, and the general community about fair housing, employment practices and knowing your rights.