Our Legal Services Partners
As the statewide poverty law support center, MLRI serves as the “spoke in the wheel” of the legal services community of Massachusetts and has deep relationships with all the core regional civil legal aid programs, as well as the statewide support programs, funded by the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation (MLAC) or the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). These include:
Our Community Partners/Allies
In addition to MLRI’s relationships with the statewide legal services community, it has long-standing collaborative partnerships with an extensive and diverse network of local, state and national community organizations, advocacy groups and social service providers that work on issues affecting low-income populations and/or directly with low-income clients.
Below is a partial list of organizations that are part of MLRI’s network:
AARP-Massachusetts Chapter
ACLU of Massachusetts
ACLU National – Immigrant Rights Project
Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD)
Action, Inc
AIDS Action Committee
Affordable Care Act (ACT!!) Today Coalition
African Community Health Initiatives
American Academy of Pediatrics-Massachusetts Chapter
American Immigration Council
American Red Cross Food Pantry
Amnesty International
Asian Task Force Against Violence
ASPIRA
Association of Haitian Women (AFAB)
Berkshire Children and Families
Berkshire Immigrant Center
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
Boston Center for Independent Living
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston College Law School, Post-Deportation Human Rights Project
Boston Medical Center
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston Resident Engagement Coalition
Boston Resident Training Institute
Boston Workers Alliance
Boston University School of Law
Building Blocks Coalition
Cambridge Economic Opportunity Center (CEOC)
Cambridge Family and Children’s Services
Cardinal Medeiros Center
Casa Myrna Vasquez
Casey Family Services
Catholic Charities (MA, NY, D.C., FL)
Centro Presente
Center for Budget & Policy Priorities (D.C.)
Center for Law and Social Policy (D.C.)
Chelsea Collaborative
Child Health Watch
Children’s Hospital Boston
Children’s Health Access Coalition
Children’s League
Children’s Services of Roxbury
Citizens for Citizens, Inc
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Citizens Housing and Planning Association
City of Boston Elder Commission
City of Boston Emergency Shelter Commission
City of Boston Office of New Bostonians
Coalition Against Poverty
Coalition for Human Needs
Coalition for Social Justice
Coalition to Protect Homeless Children
Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS)
Commonwealth Workforce Coalition
Community Action Agency of Somerville
Community Catalyst
Community Partners
COMPASS
Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries
Criminal Justice Institute
Crittenton Women’s Union (CWU)
Disability Policy Consortium of Massachusetts
Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE), Inc.
East Boston Ecumenical Community Council
Elizabeth Freeman Center
Emerge
Families USA
Family and Community Resources
Families United in Educational Leadership (FUEL)
Family Economic Initiative
Federal Defenders
Finex House
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FL)
Food Bank of Western Mass
Food Resource and Action Center (FRAC) (D.C.)
Food/SNAP Coalition
Georgetown Center for Children and Families
Greater Boston Food Bank
Greater Boston Housing Advocates
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Guidance Center
Harbor Communities Overcoming Violence (HarborCOV)
Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Harvard Law School, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Harvard Law School, Children’s Advocacy Program
Harvard Law School, Community Enterprise Project
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Health Care for the Homeless
Horizons for Homeless Children
Harbor Health Services, Inc.,
HAWC | Healing Abuse Working for Change
Health Care for All
Health Law Advocates
Higher Ground
Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts
Home for Little Wanderers
Hope House
Horizons for Homeless Children
Housing Justice Network
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ME)
Immigration Task Force
Independence House
Institute for Health and Recovery
Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (CT)
International Institute of Boston
International Institute of Lowell
Irish International Immigration Center
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action
Jewish Family & Children’s Services/Bet Tzedek
JobNET
Joint Committee for Children’s Healthcare
JRI Health Law Institute
Justice at Work
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
League of Community Health Centers
Lutheran Social Services of New England
Martha Eliot Health Center
Massachusetts Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers
Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
Massachusetts Association of Older Americans
Massachusetts Association for School-Based Health Care
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
Massachusetts Citizens for Children
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
Massachusetts Communities Action Network
Massachusetts Coalition for Supervised Visitation
Massachusetts Community Action Program (Mass-CAP)
Massachusetts Councils on Aging
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center
Massachusetts Family to Family Health Information Center at the Federation for Children with Special Needs
Massachusetts General Hospital (social work and children’s health care depts.)
Massachusetts Home Care
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
Massachusetts Office of Refugees and Immigrants (MORI)
Massachusetts Senior Action Council
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MPSCC)
Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants
Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
Medical Legal Partnership Boston
Mental Health Legal Advisors
MetroWest Domestic Violence Collaborative
Multicultural Immigrant Coalition Against Violence
National Association of Social Workers-Mass. Chapter
National Council of La Raza
National Health Law Project
National Housing Law Project (D.C.)
National Immigration Forum
National Immigration Law Center (D.C.)
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
National Low Income Housing Coalition (D.C.)
National Resident Engagement Group
Neighbor to Neighbor
New England Alliance on Children’s Health/Community Catalyst
New England Law Clinic
Northeastern University School of Law
On the Rise
Parents Helping Parents
Physicians for Human Rights
Political Asylum and Immigrant Rights (PAIR) Project
Poor People’s United Front
Project Bread
Public Policy Institute
REACH (Reach Beyond Domestic Violence)
Rosie’s Place
Safe Passage
The Second Step
Transition House
St. Francis House
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
South Shore Hunger Network
Statewide Tenancy Preservation Program Committee
Stavros Center for Independent Living
Strengthening Families Involved with DCF Coalition
Student Immigrant Movement
Suffolk University Law School
Tapestry Health
Tenant Advocacy Project
Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
Tri-City Community Action Program
UMass Medical Center
Union of Minority Neighborhoods
University of Massachusetts
University of Miami (FL)
Vera Institute
Veterans Legal Services
Victims’ Rights Law Center
Voices Against Violence
Western New England School of Law
Worcester Food Policy Council
Youth Village Inc.
YWCA of Western Massachusetts
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