Safety & Legal



Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
Provides one-time assistance to help people experiencing an unexpected crisis.
Service Area
Bay Area
Social Justice Collaborative
SJC’s mission is to ensure that low-income immigrants, asylum seekers, unaccompanied children, young dreamers, and displaced families are provided with direct legal services and high-quality legal representation in court at little to no cost.
STAND! For Families Free of Violence
A domestic violence service provider in Contra Costa County providing prevention, intervention, and treatment programs in community partnership to stop domestic violence and child abuse.
Service Area
Contra Costa County
Stand Together Contra Costa
A rapid response, legal services, and community education project to support safety and justice for immigrant families in Contra Costa County.
Service Area
Contra Costa County
Street Level Health Project (SLHP)
Street Level Health Project (SLHP) is an Oakland-based community center dedicated to improving the wellbeing of underinsured, uninsured, and recently arrived immigrants in Alameda County.
Service Area
Alameda County
Suicide Hotline
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Dial 988 to access free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
Service Area
National
Survivors International (part of the Division of Trauma Recovery Services at UCSF)
Provides free psychosocial and psychological support to adult survivors of persecution and torture who reside in San Francisco.
Service Area
Bay Area
Legal Finders
A complete guide to the legal rights of non-citizens in the U.S., as well as a list of rights non-citizens can’t access, and a number of legal resources for non-citizens.
Service Area
National
The LGBT Asylum Project
The LGBT Asylum Project is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or HIV status.
Service Area
Bay Area
oakland lgbtq center
The LGBT community center has social events, educational programs, health programs, and counsellors. There are support groups for young people, queer people, bisexual people, and transgender people. There are trainings and workshops for help with jobs. There is free therapy, art classes, yoga classes, and support for mental health.
Service Area
Bay Area
The Wright Institute Sanctuary Project (WISP)
Offers psychological evaluation services and low-fee psychotherapy to asylum seekers who are clients of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.
Service Area
Bay Area
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
An agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security that administers the country's naturalization and immigration system.
Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy and Services (VIDAS)
VIDAS provides competent and compassionate legal immigration advocacy at no or low cost to clients.
W.O.M.A.N., Inc.
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W.O.M.A.N., Inc., is a women-centered, feminist organization that works towards social justice for survivors of domestic violence. W.O.M.A.N. supports survivors and their loved ones with their healing journey where they bridge value-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence.
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