Links to Other Helpful Sites

Webinar Training 2010 Schedule - there are some excellent trainings here!

The National Housing Preservation Database is provided by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) and the Nat

This interactive Homelessness Advocacy Manual is designed to provide grass roots advocates, public interest and pro bono attorneys, policymakers and homeless persons with basic information about the rights of homeless persons and the resources needed to resolve their circumstances.

The overall purpose of the National Legal Resource Center (NLRC) is to provide the aging and legal networks with easy access to a coordinated national legal assistance support system in order to strengthen legal assistance/elder rights efforts across the country.

The New York Times has taken recent Census Data and mapped race and ethnicity, income, education, and Housing and Families.  What could your office do if you could find the pocket of Hispanic families in your county, or where the lowest income families live?  Check this out!

For hundreds of different types of jobs—such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse—the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you:

• the training and education needed
• earnings
• expected job prospects
• what workers do on the job
• working conditions

Maryland's Peoples Law Library (PLL) is a legal information and self-help website maintained by the Maryland State Law Library, a court-related agency of the Maryland Judiciary, and supported by Maryland's non-profit legal services providers.

The Public Justice Center is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded in Maryland in 1985 that seeks to enforce and expand the rights of people who suffer injustice because of their poverty or discrimination. We advocate in the courts, legislatures, and government agencies, and through public education and coalition building.

The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law provides national leadership in identifying, developing, and supporting creative and collaborative approaches to achieve social and economic justice for low-income people and communities.

Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 63 million Americans will increase 1.5 percent in 2014.  The new maximum monthly SSI payment will be $721.

This easy-to-use website provides state-by-state policy information on a range of child welfare topics. Visitors can access up-to-date information on individual state policies and can compare their own state's policies to those of other states. New topics will be included in the database in the coming months.

The Tahirih Justice Center is an innovative, efficient, and strategic nonprofit organization that works to protect immigrant women and girls from gender-based violence through legal services, advocacy, and public education programs.

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• Abuse & Neglect
• Domestic Violence
• Family Law
• VAWA Issues