Legal Accelerator Grantees

CARECEN-NY and Terra Firma National will collaborate to holistically support unaccompanied immigrant minors on Long Island by integrating legal, medical, mental health and social services at Harmony Healthcare Long Island — a healthcare center that serves all community members, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.

The Law & Racial Justice Center at Yale Law School will create a community law library that operates as a hub for civil legal assistance, community legal education and physical space for organizing and base-building.

New Hour for Women & Children Long Island will launch an in-house civil legal services program to comprehensively assist its members – formerly and currently incarcerated women and mothers – with family law matters.

Columbia County Sanctuary Movement will launch an in-house immigration legal services program in Hudson Valley, New York.

Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence will provide quality legal consultations to domestic violence survivors in Connecticut with urgent family law needs.

Newark Community Solutions and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice will collaborate to holistically represent vulnerable tenants in Essex County, New Jersey in order to better address the myriad issues that contribute to housing insecurity.

OLA of Eastern Long Island will launch an in-house immigration legal services program on the East End of Long Island, New York.