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Mediating a small claims case is an excellent choice for clients involved in Small Claims actions. In mediation, clients are able to consider remedies to satisfy their conflict that the court is not able to address.
Mediating a small claims case is an excellent choice for clients involved in Small Claims actions. In mediation, clients are able to consider remedies to satisfy their conflict that the court is not able to address.
Whatcom County Recovery Court (formerly Drug Court) is to reduce crime and improve the quality of life and safety in our community by fostering long-term change in individuals living with a substance use disorder. Whatcom County Recovery Court provides intensive case management services to individuals living with a substance use disorder.
Whatcom County Recovery Court (formerly Drug Court) is to reduce crime and improve the quality of life and safety in our community by fostering long-term change in individuals living with a substance use disorder. Whatcom County Recovery Court provides intensive case management services to individuals living with a substance use disorder.
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Advocacy & Legal Aid
Substance Dependency
Addiction & Recovery
Serves to empower disabled advocates across the state of Washington to collaborate, strategize, and mobilize on Washington State legislation impacting individuals with disabilities.
Serves to empower disabled advocates across the state of Washington to collaborate, strategize, and mobilize on Washington State legislation impacting individuals with disabilities.
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Advocacy & Legal Aid
Discrimination & Civil Rights
Disability
NWIRP takes on a variety of cases, representing people who are recent arrivals to the United States as well as those who have been in the country for many years.
NWIRP takes on a variety of cases, representing people who are recent arrivals to the United States as well as those who have been in the country for many years.
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Representation
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Citizenship
Citizenship & Immigration
Immigrants
Legal
General information and resources about DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) including important updates and renewal clinics.
General information and resources about DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) including important updates and renewal clinics.
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Citizenship & Immigration
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Citizenship
Immigrants
Navigating the System
Defends the rights of people who have a fear of persecution in their home country and help them gain safety through asylum. Also assists 'pro se' applicants with navigating the asylum application process, and works with outside agencies, communities, and organizations to promote the rights and dignity of and offer support services to persons fleeing persecution in their home countries.
Defends the rights of people who have a fear of persecution in their home country and help them gain safety through asylum. Also assists 'pro se' applicants with navigating the asylum application process, and works with outside agencies, communities, and organizations to promote the rights and dignity of and offer support services to persons fleeing persecution in their home countries.
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Legal
Immigrants
Navigating the System
Representation
Refugees
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Citizenship & Immigration
Operates statewide to investigate, advocate, and report on services to people with developmental disabilities. The program provides a range of services, including monitoring, information on rights and responsibilities, informal advocacy, and recommendations for changes in policy and procedures.
Operates statewide to investigate, advocate, and report on services to people with developmental disabilities. The program provides a range of services, including monitoring, information on rights and responsibilities, informal advocacy, and recommendations for changes in policy and procedures.
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Advocacy & Legal Aid
Discrimination & Civil Rights
Disability
Provides comprehensive legal assistance to help develop a secure parenting plan and navigate the process for obtaining Temporary Orders. Services are available to survivors of domestic violence, parents who need a parenting plan, individuals who have not yet filed anything in court, and participants who meet financial eligibility requirements
*Please note: Attorneys do not represent clients in court.
Provides comprehensive legal assistance to help develop a secure parenting plan and navigate the process for obtaining Temporary Orders. Services are available to survivors of domestic violence, parents who need a parenting plan, individuals who have not yet filed anything in court, and participants who meet financial eligibility requirements
*Please note: Attorneys do not represent clients in court.
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Domestic Violence Survivors
Parents
Legal
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Third space for Black, Indigenous, and Brown (BIB) youth to build community and skills. Offers digital media courses as well as healing groups.
Third space for Black, Indigenous, and Brown (BIB) youth to build community and skills. Offers digital media courses as well as healing groups.
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Discrimination & Civil Rights
Peer Support
Tutoring
Specialized Training
Computer Class
Volunteer lawyers provide free, brief legal consultations. Come prepared with any papers related to your case. Call for more information about upcoming clinics, or view calendar online.
Volunteer lawyers provide free, brief legal consultations. Come prepared with any papers related to your case. Call for more information about upcoming clinics, or view calendar online.
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Mediation
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Legal
Family Recovery Court (FRC) is a voluntary & non-adversarial program offered as an alternative to the standard dependency case process. The collaborative FRC team serves each participant's individual needs. The team speeds access to substance use and mental health treatment services, parenting support, and other needed services. FRC increases the participants' accountability by holding frequent compliance hearings, dependency review hearings and requiring candor with the Court. The FRC Commissioner regularly review participant progress, talks with the participants regarding their struggles and successes, and provides rewards for progress and responses for rule infractions.
Family Recovery Court (FRC) is a voluntary & non-adversarial program offered as an alternative to the standard dependency case process. The collaborative FRC team serves each participant's individual needs. The team speeds access to substance use and mental health treatment services, parenting support, and other needed services. FRC increases the participants' accountability by holding frequent compliance hearings, dependency review hearings and requiring candor with the Court. The FRC Commissioner regularly review participant progress, talks with the participants regarding their struggles and successes, and provides rewards for progress and responses for rule infractions.
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Advocacy & Legal Aid
Legal
Helps immigrants obtain United States Citizenship. NWIRP ensures that people with disabilities can attain U.S. citizenship, fights wrongful citizenship denials, represents people with criminal records who are still eligible for U.S. citizenship, and defends U.S. citizens who have been wrongfully placed in removal proceedings.
Helps immigrants obtain United States Citizenship. NWIRP ensures that people with disabilities can attain U.S. citizenship, fights wrongful citizenship denials, represents people with criminal records who are still eligible for U.S. citizenship, and defends U.S. citizens who have been wrongfully placed in removal proceedings.
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Citizenship & Immigration
Navigating the System
Legal
Citizenship
Immigrants
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Representation
A two-part initiative designed to provide comprehensive support to immigrants through informational sessions and personalized legal consultations. In the first part of the clinic, volunteer immigration attorneys conduct an informational session, offering valuable information on various immigration topics. In the second part, participants can meet with immigration attorneys for individual consultations to address specific concerns and receive tailored legal advice.
A two-part initiative designed to provide comprehensive support to immigrants through informational sessions and personalized legal consultations. In the first part of the clinic, volunteer immigration attorneys conduct an informational session, offering valuable information on various immigration topics. In the second part, participants can meet with immigration attorneys for individual consultations to address specific concerns and receive tailored legal advice.
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Citizenship & Immigration
Immigrants
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Legal
Provides a range of advocacy services to help adults, youth, and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities gain access to health and educational services and supports. These services include family resource and insurance navigation, and legal advocacy on issues related to access to healthcare and education.
Provides a range of advocacy services to help adults, youth, and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities gain access to health and educational services and supports. These services include family resource and insurance navigation, and legal advocacy on issues related to access to healthcare and education.
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Adults
Teens
Developmental Disability
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Legal
Children
Disability
Works to end the abuse and neglect of people with disabilities who are currently incarcerated in Washington State, while also supporting long-term efforts toward disability justice.
Works to end the abuse and neglect of people with disabilities who are currently incarcerated in Washington State, while also supporting long-term efforts toward disability justice.
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Disability
Discrimination & Civil Rights
Advocates for effective, humane, and therapeutic treatment in institutional settings. Facilities may include hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing facilities, Residential Habilitation Centers, enhanced services facilities, and immigration detention facilities.
Advocates for effective, humane, and therapeutic treatment in institutional settings. Facilities may include hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing facilities, Residential Habilitation Centers, enhanced services facilities, and immigration detention facilities.
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Advocacy & Legal Aid
Discrimination & Civil Rights
Disability
Clinic for residents of Whatcom County who are seniors, people with disabilities, and/or people with terminal illnesses who require assistance with simple will documents or need referral to a pro bono attorney.
Clinic for residents of Whatcom County who are seniors, people with disabilities, and/or people with terminal illnesses who require assistance with simple will documents or need referral to a pro bono attorney.
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Advocacy & Legal Aid
Seniors
Disability
Legal
Terminal Illness
Ongoing legal process to prioritize water usage along the Nooksack River Watershed and Bellingham Bay. Relevant to individuals or businesses who draw water from wells or waterbodies like lakes and rivers. These resources provide more information and document how to submit a claim when applicable.
Ongoing legal process to prioritize water usage along the Nooksack River Watershed and Bellingham Bay. Relevant to individuals or businesses who draw water from wells or waterbodies like lakes and rivers. These resources provide more information and document how to submit a claim when applicable.
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Legal
Understand Government Programs
Every service needed to investigate and prosecute a case involving a child victim of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect is available at Dawson Place.
Every service needed to investigate and prosecute a case involving a child victim of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect is available at Dawson Place.
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Legal
Children
Teens
Families
Sexual Assault Survivors
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
A toll-free legal hotline for people with low incomes. Services are targeted to problems that affect basic needs such as housing, income, medical care and family safety. Due to limited resources, lawyers and paralegals are not able to assist every caller.
A toll-free legal hotline for people with low incomes. Services are targeted to problems that affect basic needs such as housing, income, medical care and family safety. Due to limited resources, lawyers and paralegals are not able to assist every caller.
Provides consumer protection for identity theft and scams, education, labor and industries, licensing, social and health services.
Provides consumer protection for identity theft and scams, education, labor and industries, licensing, social and health services.
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Legal
Discrimination & Civil Rights
Apply online for free legal help from NJP and other legal aid providers in your county, or call the CLEAR Hotline. Seniors (age 60 and over) can call CLEAR*Sr.
Apply online for free legal help from NJP and other legal aid providers in your county, or call the CLEAR Hotline. Seniors (age 60 and over) can call CLEAR*Sr.
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Mediation
Representation
Low-Income
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Legal
Volunteer lawyers provide free, brief legal consultations. Come prepared with any papers related to your case. Call for more information about upcoming clinics, or view calendar online.
Volunteer lawyers provide free, brief legal consultations. Come prepared with any papers related to your case. Call for more information about upcoming clinics, or view calendar online.
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Mediation
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Legal
Guarantees access to life-altering forms of immigration relief to children and youth who have been abandoned, abused or neglected by their parents.
Guarantees access to life-altering forms of immigration relief to children and youth who have been abandoned, abused or neglected by their parents.
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Immigrants
Citizenship & Immigration
Citizenship
Children
Teens
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Representation
Advocacy & Legal Aid
A youth-led diversion service focusing on healing and accountability through Restorative Justice. Teen Court serves 12-17 year olds in partnership with Whatcom County Superior Court and several high schools throughout Whatcom County. Student volunteers act as judges, jurors and attorneys (referred to as advocates), to both learn how a courtroom setting works and to offer an alternative to the standard criminal justice system.
A youth-led diversion service focusing on healing and accountability through Restorative Justice. Teen Court serves 12-17 year olds in partnership with Whatcom County Superior Court and several high schools throughout Whatcom County. Student volunteers act as judges, jurors and attorneys (referred to as advocates), to both learn how a courtroom setting works and to offer an alternative to the standard criminal justice system.