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ACCESSLINE? | LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA

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).

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SAFETY - OLDER ADULTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE | PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES, INC.

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.

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SAFETY - OLDER ADULTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE | PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES, INC.

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.

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ABUSE AND CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES | CAASA: CENTERS AGAINST ABUSE & SEXUAL ASSAULT

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.

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SAFETY - OLDER ADULTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE | PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES, INC.

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.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES | CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA

Provides comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence and programs aimed at addressing domestic violence offenders. Services for victims include confidential shelters, outreach services such as counseling, court assistance, public education, and presentations. Support groups for victims and survivors, as well as child advocacy services, are available in Polk and Warren Counties.

A 24/7 Crisis Line, staffed by trained domestic violence advocates, offers counseling, information, and education about domestic abuse issues to victims, their friends, and family members.

Additionally, intervention programs for domestic violence offenders are available, focusing on helping offenders understand and take responsibility for their actions, recognize the damaging effects of their behavior, and develop skills such as problem-solving, conflict resolution, stress management, and communication. These programs may include group sessions addressing the cycle of abuse, power and control tactics, and stereotypical gender roles, as well as victim panels where survivors share their experiences to foster accountability and awareness.

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LEGAL SERVICES | SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER

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.

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MEDICAL AND LEGAL ADVOCACY | ROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING, INC.

Medical advocates respond to the hospital when a patient is victim of sexual assault to provide emotional support, clothing, and information regarding hospital procedures. Advocates help educate the victim about their options for hospital procedures and pressing charges. The advocate serves as a liaison between the victim, the police, and ER personnel. Advocates and staff respond to hospital calls 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Legal advocates provide guidance and support for victims of sexual assault and abuse as they go through the legal system. As a victim of a violent crime in Illinois, they are entitled to advocacy services. The legal advocate also works closely with the State's Attorney's Office and is available to help with questions relating to court and provide emotional support.

Legal Advocacy Services Include:

- Attending all court appearances of the defendant

- Updating the victim on court procedures

- Accompanying the victim to court

- Obtaining a Civil No Contact Order (CNCO)

- Answer questions relating to legal procedures

- Assist victims with Crime Victim Compensation

- Assist victims with the Victim's Economic Security and Safety Act

- Assist victims with the Safe Home Act

- Provide emotional support

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ABUSE AND CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES | VOICES OF HOPE

Provides a 24 hour crisis line staffed by staff and trained volunteers who provide immediate access to crisis counseling and information and referral services to victims and secondary others of domestic abuse and sexual assault.

Protection order application assistance and criminal justice legal advocacy.

Call for domestic violence/sexual abuse support group availability.

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SAFETY - OLDER ADULTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE | PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES, INC.

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.

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LEGAL SERVICES | SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER

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.

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MEDICAL AND LEGAL ADVOCACY | ROCKFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING, INC.

Medical advocates respond to the hospital when a patient is victim of sexual assault to provide emotional support, clothing, and information regarding hospital procedures. Advocates help educate the victim about their options for hospital procedures and pressing charges. The advocate serves as a liaison between the victim, the police, and ER personnel. Advocates and staff respond to hospital calls 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Legal advocates provide guidance and support for victims of sexual assault and abuse as they go through the legal system. As a victim of a violent crime in Illinois, they are entitled to advocacy services. The legal advocate also works closely with the State's Attorney's Office and is available to help with questions relating to court and provide emotional support.

Legal Advocacy Services Include:

- Attending all court appearances of the defendant

- Updating the victim on court procedures

- Accompanying the victim to court

- Obtaining a Civil No Contact Order (CNCO)

- Answer questions relating to legal procedures

- Assist victims with Crime Victim Compensation

- Assist victims with the Victim's Economic Security and Safety Act

- Assist victims with the Safe Home Act

- Provide emotional support

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SAFETY - OLDER ADULTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE | PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES, INC.

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.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES | MID CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY

Provides comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence. Services include shelters for those affected by domestic violence and outreach services. Shelter location is confidential and not available to the general public. Outreach Services include counseling, court assistance, and public education and presentations. Services also include support groups for victims and survivors.

Crisis Line is answered by a trained domestic violence advocate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Victims of domestic violence or their friends and family members can receive counseling, information, and education about domestic abuse issues.

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VICTIM SERVICES | WESTERN ILLINOIS REGIONAL COUNCIL

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, medical advocacy, and assistance with legal filings such as Orders of Protection and Stalking No Contact Orders. Offers guidance in forming safety plans, temporary emergency safe shelter, and transportation when needed. Operates hotlines that provide immediate assistance, emotional support, and information for individuals experiencing dating abuse, domestic violence, or sexual assault.

Hotline staff are accessible via telephone, email, chat, and text to ensure safety, provide referrals for medical, legal, and emotional needs, and offer advocacy and other related services. Additionally, youth and adult education programs are available with age-appropriate presentations on consent, body autonomy, sexual harassment, and bullying.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAM | CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF DES MOINES

24 hour emergency shelter and crisis line for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Confidential services include; legal advocacy, individual counseling, housing & economic advocacy, medical advocacy, assistance with protection orders, educational support groups, group counseling, clinical counseling, community outreach and awareness. Call the crisis line for a group intake.

This program is based in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and serves nine counties in southwest Iowa.

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LEGAL SERVICES | IOWA LEGAL AID

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.

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SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES | YWCA OF THE SAUK VALLEY

Provides rape crisis center services available via the hotline. Sexual assault program services include crisis intervention, 24-hours response at medical facilities or police stations, assistance and support with medical and legal procedures, counseling for child and adult survivors of sexual assault.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EMERGENCY SHELTER AND SERVICES | REMEDIES RENEWING LIVES

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

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PEACE PROGRAM | IOWA TRIBE OF KANSAS AND NEBRASKA

Provides crisis intervention, legal and medical advocacy, support services, case management, and more. Services focus on issues of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

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LEGAL SERVICES | IOWA LEGAL AID

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.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT | COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER

Offers case management, assistance obtaining an Order of Protection, Civil No Contact Order, or Stalking No Contact Order, help with court advocacy, individual counseling, children's services and support groups.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ADVOCACY | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM AND RAPE VICTIM ADVOCACY PROGRAM

Provides trained crisis advocates to handle all aspects of domestic abuse and sexual abuse and its impact and the recovery process. Services may also include group and individual counseling.

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COURT ADVOCACY - SIXTH MUNICIPAL DISTRICT | ANEW: BUILDING BEYOND VIOLENCE AND ABUSE

Provides legal help for individuals experiencing domestic violence.

Services include:

- Assistance with filing Orders of Protection
- Court advocacy
- Information and support to navigate the legal system
- Assistance with gaining temporary custody of minor children

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ABUSE AND CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES | HAVEN HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES CENTER

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.

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