Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco

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201 Mission St.Suite 400San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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Spanish Interpreter Needed for Immigrant Children Program

Flexible Schedule | San Francisco, CA 94105

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) is starting a new pilot program to provide hundreds of school-aged immigrant children in San Francisco who have experienced abandonment, abuse, or neglect by at least one parent a pathway to legal residency and citizenship. The JDC has so far identified at least 600 minors within the San Francisco Unified School District who currently lack legal status, entered the United States unaccompanied, or otherwise need immigration legal services. Through the work of volunteer attorneys, the JDC plans to provide these minors with something called Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, which will allow these children to stay in the United States without fear of deportation, to attend school and work legally without fear of reprisal. Most of these children are primarily Spanish speakers with limited English proficiency. Interpreters will be essential to being able to provide life-changing legal services to these children, and likely many more that the JDC have not even yet identified. Please consider volunteering today! You don’t need to have legal experience to volunteer!

Date Posted: 2024-09-04
Intake Volunteers needed for legal clinic in Bayview!

Flexible Schedule | San Francisco, CA 94124

Are you a law student looking to see what pro bono work looks like? A paralegal? The Justice & Diversity Center is inviting you to volunteer at our new Bayview Legal Advice and Referral Clinic, occurring on the fourth Friday of every month. This is an in-person volunteer opportunity and we are recruiting for August - September! Clinic Details Dates: Aug 26 & Sep 23 Location: Bayview Hunter’s Point YMCA, 1601 Lane St, San Francisco, CA 94124 Time Commitment: 2:30pm - 6 pm, 3.5 hours. Extent of Volunteering: Welcome Clients to the clinic - Intake Volunteers will rotate through the Greeter Role (30 minutes at a time) and explain the clinic process to clients. Conduct Client Intakes - Clients will be provided a number and asked to sit in a waiting area. Intake Volunteers will call a client up into an intake room where they will ask the client a series of questions and fill out an intake form. Direct Clients to Next Steps - Working with our supervising attorney, Intake Volunteers will provide clients referrals and connect clients with attorneys. LARCs serves clients on a walk-in basis, meaning that we will not know how many clients we will have until the day of. Intakes will slow down and pause in the second half of the clinic, dependent on whether or not our volunteer attorney reach their capacity. This means that intakes may finish before 6 pm. We are also asking that you arrive for a brief 30 minute consultation at 2:30pm, where we will answer questions on your role, and introduce you to YMCA staff and out attorneys. It is crucial that our volunteers maintain confidentiality while conducting intakes, and we will have Mandarin and Spanish Interpreters available.

Date Posted: 2024-10-15

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The Justice & Diversity Center advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational programs that foster diversity in the legal profession.

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The Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco (JDC) provides pro bono legal and related social services to low-income and homeless San Francisco residents and to nonprofit organizations that serve these communities. We provide these services primarily through the use of volunteer attorneys and non-attorneys. JDC takes a holistic approach to legal services, seeking to address the full range of legal and social services issues that prevent our clients from retaining stability in their lives.

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