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Referral Agency Briefs by Service Category

Criminal Justice and Legal Services

Centro Legal Inc.

St Paul 651-642-1890
Legal services for low income Spanish-speaking and Latino people. Services include civil legal services, legal translation/interpreter services, as well as legal services for Hispanic battered women, and resettlement issues such as immigration, permanent residence, suspension of deportation, political asylum, derivative citizenship, and naturalization.

Cornerstone Ministries

Minneapolis 612-825-6863
Located in the basement of Park Avenue Methodist Church, offers a food shelf, free health clinic and legal clinic, and computer training programs.

Dispute Resolution Center

St Paul 651-292-7791
Provides mediation to assist people involved in disputes to reach mutually satisfactory resolution of differences without intervention by courts, attorneys or other agencies.

Hennepin County Immigration Law Project (Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis)

Minneapolis 612-332-1441
Legal representation for eligible residents of Hennepin County on issues of family reunification, status adjustment, citizenship, asylum, deportation, and other matters of concern to immigrants.

International Institute of Minnesota

St Paul 651-647-0191
Serves the foreign born in their process to become self-sufficient US citizens, through interrelated programs of casework services, legal services, education and employment training, citizenship acquisition and intercultural activities. Also provides assistance with family unification for refugee groups. New Refugee Women's Initiative highlighting micro-enterprise.

Legal Rights Center

Minneapolis 612-337-0030
Culturally-appropriate legal services, advocacy and social-referral services for low-income juveniles and adults in the juvenile justice system and the criminal justice system. Mediation services and peacemaking circles for juveniles, low-income families and communities of color. Truancy intervention and mediation services provided in the Minneapolis alternative middle schools.

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

Minneapolis 612-341-9845
Volunteer attorneys represent no or low-income asylum seekers who have fled persecution in their home countries in interviews with INS asylum officers and in removal proceedings before immigration judges. Also provides brief advice, self-representation information and limited assistance in preparing asylum application to asylum seekers not accepted for full representation.

Neighborhood Justice Center

St. Paul 651-222-4703
Nonprofit community based criminal defense organization representing people who are charged with crimes in Ramsey, Washington, and Dakota counties who cannot afford an attorney.

Oficina Legal - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

St Paul 651-291-0110
Provides legal representation to low-income persons of all nationalities with immigration matters.

Somali Community of Minnesota

Minneapolis 612-871-6786
Serves African refugees/immigrants/asylees, primarily Somalian, in need of assistance with basic necessities and with adjustment to the U.S.. Services include a Somali youth program, employment assistance, counseling, and a legal aid program.

Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Immigration and Naturalization Project

St Paul 651-222-5863
Legal advice and representation in noncriminal civil legal matters that are critical to the client's basic needs, and for which the client has a good claim, including: public benefits, health, housing, family law, civil rights, immigration.

 


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