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Central California Legal Services

  • Location:
    2115 Kern St
    Suite 200
    Fresno, CA 93721
  • Phone:
    (559) 570-1200
  • Toll-free:
    1-800-675-8001
  • TTY:
    (559) 570-1256
  • Fax:
    (559) 570-1254
  • Contact methods:
    Email, Mail/Letter, Phone calls, Phone intake / services available.
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Our mission at Central California Legal Services is to advance justice and empower people. Our purpose is to fight social injustice, to provide education and representation to the disadvantaged and to maintain access to the legal system.

Counties served: Fresno, Kings, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare, Tuolumne

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Employment authorization, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Types of immigration legal services provided: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Other areas of legal assistance: Consumer, Elder Law, Family & Juvenile, Health, Homeless, Housing, Public Benefits
Non-legal services: Housing referrals, Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Referrals to other services
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese Chinese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Lithuanian, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? No
Other information: Services are subject to LSC funding restrictions.

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 2
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 0
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 2
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 3

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Volunteering

Volunteer Coordinator
Montez Brooks
(559) 570-1266