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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

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

Provides abuse and crisis intervention services to those going through a domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sex trafficking situation. Services include a family violence crisis line, counseling or counseling referrals for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, emergency shelter and transportation, peer support groups, and child advocacy.

Protection order assistance, criminal justice/legal advocacy, and medical advocacy are also available to those who may need it.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Human Trafficking Hotlines
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Sexual Assault Shelters
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Human Trafficking Support Groups
Sexual Assault Counseling
Human Trafficking Shelters
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Support Groups

Provides abuse and crisis intervention services to those going through abuse or a sexual assault situation. Services include a 24 hour crisis line, support services, crisis intervention, resources, support groups for adults, teens and children, medical and legal advocacy court accompaniment, prevention training and education, crisis intervention, counseling, emergency shelter, transportation to safety and other housing options.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Sexual Assault Shelters
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Sexual Assault Counseling
Abuse Counseling
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

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

Rape crisis center services are available via the hotline. Sexual assault program services include:

-- Crisis intervention

-- 24-hour response at medical facilities or police stations

-- Assistance and support with medical and legal procedures

-- Counseling for child and adult survivors of sexual assault

The YWCA also provides information and referral and extensive community education programs for:

-- Helping school children learn how to stay safe from abuse and how to report it

-- Helping schools work against bullying

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

-- Providing professional training on sexual harassment, sexual assault issues, and many related topics

Categories

Sexual Assault Counseling
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Sexual Assault Prevention
Adult Sexual Assault Prevention
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Immigration/Naturalization Legal Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Provides legal assistance in Elderly Law, Civil Law, and Children's Rights Law. Can only take a limited number of cases. No bankruptcies or personal injury cases.

Categories

Legal Counseling
Legal Representation
Elder Law
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
General Legal Aid

Services include:

-- 24-hour crisis line and crisis intervention

-- Safe shelter

-- Counseling for adults and children

-- Support groups for adults and children

-- Assistance with orders of protection and other court-related advocacy

-- Parenting assistance

-- Abuser groups held in an outside location

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Abuse Counseling
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs

Offers legal advocacy and education services for individuals involved in sexual abuse or domestic violence. Services include orders of protection and understanding court procedures, services are available in-person and online. Medical advocacy is available for participant emergencies or to address ongoing health concerns. Services are available on an individual basis as well as in group settings with other survivors.

Provides 24-hour hotline and domestic violence program services that include:


- Emergency shelter.
- Advocacy-based counseling services
- Legal advocacy.
- Support groups.
- Services for children and youth.
- Transitional housing services with survivors of domestic violence.

Categories

Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Support Groups

Provides abuse and crisis intervention services to those going through a domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sex trafficking situation. Services include a family violence crisis line, counseling or counseling referrals for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, emergency shelter and transportation, peer support groups, and child advocacy.

Protection order assistance, criminal justice/legal advocacy, and medical advocacy are also available to those who may need it.

Categories

Dating Violence Prevention
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Abuse Counseling
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Domestic Violence Shelters
Sexual Assault Shelters
Sexual Assault Counseling
Sexual Assault Hotlines

Provides a crisis based shelter that offers a host of assistance to victims and their children fleeing domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, stalking and violent crimes. DSAOC shelter services are available 24/7. Services within the shelter are all free of charge, confidential and supports the survivor's ability to once again control their own life.

Crisis Based Shelter Services Include, survivor Information, crisis Intervention, safety planning
case management, information, education & referrals, counseling/support groups, court advocacy, medical advocacy, transportation, provision of basic needs, food and clothing, personal hygiene supplies, laundry, child advocacy, housing location support.

Categories

Adult Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault Shelters
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Sexual Assault Treatment
Child Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Domestic Violence Shelters
Sexual Assault Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

-- Nursing home and home care issues.

-- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

-- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Guardianship Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Elder Law
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

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

Provides abuse and crisis intervention services to those going through a domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sex trafficking situation. Services include a family violence crisis line, counseling or counseling referrals for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, emergency shelter and transportation, peer support groups, and child advocacy.

Protection order assistance, criminal justice/legal advocacy, and medical advocacy are also available to those who may need it.

Works to build awareness of abuse by partnering with local agencies to offer community education programs and a resource library.

Categories

Domestic Violence Shelters
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Sexual Assault Shelters
Abuse Counseling
Dating Violence Prevention
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Sexual Assault Counseling

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Immigration/Naturalization Legal Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Immigration/Naturalization Legal Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Staff and volunteers may be able to assist with navigating the criminal justice system and obtaining legal and medical services. Please note: Staff and volunteers are not attorneys and cannot give legal advice.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Health Related Advocacy Groups

Provides free and confidential services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, child abuse, and all other forms of abuse. Services include counseling, legal advocacy and medical advocacy.

Categories

Domestic Violence Hotlines
Abuse Counseling
Dating Abuse Hotlines
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Sexual Assault Counseling
Accessline provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Advance Medical Directives
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Legal Counseling
Labor and Employment Law
Tax Information
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Housing Counseling
Elder Law
Self-help center providing legal guidance and resources to people who are representing themselves in court.

Legal advice and brief services provided by attorneys and paralegals. Attorneys do not provide court representation.

One on one assistance, information on what to expect during court proceedings, and review of completed court forms to ensure accuracy before entering court.

Assists walk-in clients with divorce, durable power of attorney, enforcement of child support, enforcement of visitation, child support modification, name change, conviction set aside, and protection orders.

Self-help clinics offered on a variety of legal subjects. Visit website to see if a clinic will be held soon related to a specific legal problem.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
General Legal Aid
Legal Counseling

Provides crisis shelter for those who are victims of domestic violence. In addition, the following services are provided for both domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, prevention education, supportive counseling, sexual assault victim therapy. children's counseling (domestic and sexual violence), case management.

Categories

Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders

Provides crisis shelter for those who are victims of domestic violence. In addition, the following services are provided for both domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, prevention education, supportive counseling, sexual assault victim therapy. children's counseling (domestic and sexual violence), case management.

Categories

Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders

Provides abuse and crisis intervention services to those going through a domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sex trafficking situation. Services include a family violence crisis line, counseling or counseling referrals for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, emergency shelter and transportation, peer support groups, and child advocacy.

Protection order assistance, criminal justice/legal advocacy, and medical advocacy are also available to those who may need it.

Support group for victims of domestic violence. Open to anyone who is experiencing or has experienced abuse in an intimate relationship, including individuals who are still involved in the abusive relationship. Transportation available.

Categories

Domestic Violence Hotlines
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Sexual Assault Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Domestic Violence Shelters
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Sexual Assault Shelters
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Provides advocacy, information, and support to the victims of domestic violence throughout both civil and criminal court proceedings. Court advocates assist clients in completing orders of protection and understanding their legal rights regarding domestic violence, and also advocates for them before the presiding judges. Program also provides community referrals and advocacy for clients.