Our Projects

In 2017, 71% of low-income American households experienced at least one civil legal problem, including problems with health care, housing conditions, disability access, benefits, and domestic violence. 86% of these problems received inadequate or no legal help. There are no data on civil legal issues and youth and young adults' in Georgia. We want to change this. Data can bring more visibility and with more visibility comes more access. Ultimately, we want young people to know where they can turn to when they have a civil legal issue, and to work in coordination with our partners to provide supportive, person-centered legal representation.

We work with youth-serving organizations in Atlanta to ensure young people experiencing homelessness have access to civil legal support before legal issues affect their housing, education, health, and stability.

Common civil legal issues include:

 

Youth Homelessness Program

Housing is essential so that young people can continue their education, stay healthy (mentally and physically), and thrive. We provide direct legal representation and drop-in support at our local partner organizations to remove legal barriers to housing and other resources. 

We partner with Atlanta-area youth homelessness service providers to provide drop-in civil legal support to unaccompanied young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Oftentimes when a legal issue arises,  young people don't know where to turn, or they simply don't have any support. We work to prevent legal issues from negatively affecting young people's housing, health, and education. 

We currently conduct intake once a month at Hope Thru Soap and CHRIS180.

Shelter and Housing Rights Project

We work with our national partners at National Homelessness Law Center to ensure that local providers know about young people's rights in shelter and housing programs and that these rights are upheld. From what we are hearing from young people who have accessed Atlanta-area shelters and housing programs, we are deeply concerned and are pursuing systemic changes that will provide greater protections for young people accessing these programs. If you have been banned from a shelter, or dismissed from a housing program without a clear process in ATL/GA, please contact our intake line (404) 436-0873

Name Change, Record Restriction & Credit Health Clinics

As LGBTQIA2S+ young people are increasingly under attack, we are seeking to support as many of these youth as possible with gender-affirming name changes. We can also support young people with restricting misdemeanor records, arrests, felonies etc. and with checking and fixing their credit. Clinic services are available to young people aged 18-26 regardless of housing status.

We hold clinics multiple times per year.