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Alliance for Children's Rights seeks to provide stability for children in foster care or those at risk of entering foster care by helping those in need get access to medical care, mental health care, educational services, housing, public benefits, and more. Alliance for Children's Rights also provides permanency through adoption or legal guardianship for children that cannot return to their biological parents. For those who have "aged out" of foster care, Alliance for Children's Rights helps provide a stable connection through their programs, advocacy services, and connecting to a supportive adult. 

• The Criminal Justice Reform Program 
• The Workers' Rights Program 
• The Housing Rights Program 
• The Immigrant Rights Program 
• The National Security and Civil Rights Program challenges

Riverside Legal Aid (RLA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1982 to provide free legal services to low-income residents of Riverside County who cannot afford an attorney. RLA provides legal services only in civil cases (not criminal cases) particularly in the following areas:

1. Family law (dissolution, child and spousal support and visitation, restraining orders, paternity and child custody)
2. Landlord/tenant
3. Guardianship
4. Conservatorship
5. Bankruptcy
6. Federal District Court civil cases
7. Debtor-creditor/consumer issues

Attorneys from Riverside County provide the services on a volunteer basis in various clinics operated by RLA or from individual attorneys on a pro bono direct representation basis in limited circumstances, depending on the type of services you are seeking. RLA serves only low-income (LSC-eligible) residents of Riverside County (or non-residents with cases in Riverside County courts), except in the Bankruptcy and Federal District Court pro se self-help clinic, in which all unrepresented people are welcome without regard to income.

No fees are ever charged for services. Except in Bankruptcy/Federal Civil Self-Help clinic, the household income generally must be below 125% of federal poverty level, with some limited exceptions.

Riverside Legal Aid (RLA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1982 to provide free legal services to low-income residents of Riverside County who cannot afford an attorney. RLA provides legal services only in civil cases (not criminal cases) particularly in the following areas:

1. Family law (dissolution, child and spousal support and visitation, restraining orders, paternity and child custody)
2. Landlord/tenant
3. Guardianship
4. Conservatorship
5. Bankruptcy
6. Federal District Court civil cases
7. Debtor-creditor/consumer issues

Attorneys from Riverside County provide the services on a volunteer basis in various clinics operated by RLA or from individual attorneys on a pro bono direct representation basis in limited circumstances, depending on the type of services you are seeking. RLA serves only low-income (LSC-eligible) residents of Riverside County (or non-residents with cases in Riverside County courts), except in the Bankruptcy and Federal District Court pro se self-help clinic, in which all unrepresented people are welcome without regard to income.

No fees are ever charged for services. Except in Bankruptcy/Federal Civil Self-Help clinic, the household income generally must be below 125% of federal poverty level, with some limited exceptions.

Disability Rights California (DRC) is the agency designated under federal law to protect and advocate for the rights of Californians with disabilities.  Our California Office of Patients' Rights (COPR) advocates for the rights of people in the State Hospitals who have a psychiatric disability or emotional impairment.  Our Office of Clients' Rights Advocacy (OCRA) assists individuals with developmental disabilities who are clients of California's Regional Centers.   

DRC’s Legal Advocacy Unit (LAU) provides free legal advice to Californians with disabilities in several civil legal areas of law: Civil rights; Education; Employment; Healthcare/Home & Community-Based Services; Housing; Voting.  DRC’s LAU work includes: Information and Referral, Investigation of Abuse and Neglect, Legal Representation & Rights Protection, Education & Outreach, and Public Policy Advocacy. Our priorities include enforcing and advancing the rights of Californians with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and ensuring that people with disabilities have access to mental health services and housing.  We also provide short-term assistance to people with disabilities throughout California who are: (1) representing themselves in eviction cases or who have received eviction notices, (2) at risk of homelessness, or (3) in need of reasonable accommodations/modifications in their housing.     

Those interested in assistance may call Disability Rights California’s intake line.