Our Community Advocacy program helps low-income individuals with a variety of legal problems by connecting them with trained, non-lawyer advocates who work under an attorney’s supervision.
We deal most often with issues like:
- Landlord/tenant disputes
- Unpaid wages and employment issues
- Government benefits
- Driver’s relicensing
- Criminal record expungement
- Consumer protection
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- While we would like to help everyone, our resources are limited. If you qualify for Community Advocacy, an advocate will work with you to establish a plan for resolving your problem. Administrative fees typically apply. The Center can only help as many people as we have current resources and staffing to allow. Thus, please be advised that there may be periods during the year where we cannot schedule new intakes. These periods are usually short-lived.
Driver Re-Licensing
The Center for Justice hosts driver re-licensing assessment sessions every other Thursday night. In order to attend, you should have a referral from the City of Spokane’s Re-licensing Program. You will also need to call the Center for Justice at (509) 835-5211 to determine when your appointment can be scheduled. In order to determine whether you qualify to receive a referral packet, you must go to the City Re-licensing Program (located at 909 W. Mallon, 2nd floor of the City Prosecutors Building.) If and when you receive a referral packet it’s very important to read the instructions in their entirety. Follow all the instructions in the referral packet before coming to your assessment appointment at the Center for Justice. Please be aware that showing up without having completed the necessary paperwork will require that we reschedule you for the next available appointment.
The Center for Justice is in the Community Building, Third Floor, 35 W. Main Avenue on the corner of Browne & Main, a block south of the new Spokane Convention Center.
Assistance for Women
The Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor offers two informative Web sites managed by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). These Web sites offer information and resources for working women and their families, and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The first is the official benefits website of the U.S. Government, connects citizens from all walks of life to government benefit and assistance programs that meet their specific needs. This one-stop source provides citizens with the ability to complete a free and confidential questionnaire that will match their individual needs to more than 1,000 Federal and State assistance programs, including disaster relief, employment services, education, housing, small-business loans, Medicare and more. Using this free and confidential questionnaire, visitors can quickly receive a customized list of benefits that they may be eligible to receive.
The second site is managed by the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy and is a collaborative effort among 22 Federal agency partners. Its mission is to offer access to information on disability-related programs, services and initiatives that cross multiple jurisdictions, and to connect people with disabilities to the resources they need to actively participate in the workforce and in their communities.
Fair Housing Issues
The Northwest Fair Housing Alliance website offers a good array of information regarding the rights of homeowners and tenants. The Alliance, like the Center, is housed in the Community Building at 35 W. Main Avenue, at Suite 250 and can be contacted by phone at (509) 325-2665.