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Summer Associates Learn Advocacy Skills and Community Service

A number of law students began the academic year after a busy summer securing housing and disability benefits for community members. Because they were summer associates at firms that participate in the Justice & Diversity Center’s (JDC’s) Summer Associates Program,…

Advocate for Immigrants Retires from Homeless Advocacy Project

By Teresa Friend, Homeless Advocacy Project Ramona Holguin, long-time supervising attorney at the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) of the Justice & Diversity Center (JDC), retired at the end of February. She started at HAP in 1993, and created a key…

A Week in the Life of the SF-Marin Lawyer Referral Service [Infographic]

Meet STC Student Savion at the 2015 #JDCGala on September 24

Next week is our annual gala through which we raise money for our diversity education programs and our legal services programs. This year the featured youth speaker from our high school School-To-College (STC) program is Savion. He will be sharing his story at the…

Housing Negotiation Project Volunteer Works to Save Low-Income Clients’ Homes

The Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) recognizes Hope Greenhill as our Volunteer of the Month for her work with JDC’s Housing Negotiation Project, the limited-scope pro bono opportunity of the Eviction Defense Project. Greenhill has been volunteering with JDC since 2008, and currently works as a contract program…

HAP Staff Testifies at Supervisor Farrell’s Hearing on Homelessness

Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) staff attorney Erin Katayama testified last week at a hearing focused on housing and homelessness in San Francisco. The May 7 hearing, titled The Housing Ladder and Evictions from Publicly Funded Housing Units, is one in…

The Power Of One: Accommodating Caregivers Under The San Francisco Family Friendly Ordinance

Whether you employ 20 people in Vacaville, Virginia or on Venus, the Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance will affect you if one of those employees: is a caregiver of a child, parent over the age 65, or relative with a serious…

The Impact of the Homeless Advocacy Project [INFOGRAPHIC]

During National Homeless Awareness Week, the Justice & Diversity Center celebrates its Homeless Advocacy Project’s 25th anniversary. In 25 years of service, hundreds of dedicated staff attorneys, advocates and social service professionals, as well as legal and social work interns,…

Pilot Program Launched to Serve Veterans Facing Criminal Charges

JDC’s Federal Pro Bono Project Expands

Will begin serving clients in summer of 2013 The Justice & Diversity Center’s Federal Pro Bono Project will open a second office at the Oakland courthouse of the U.S. District Court of Northern California. The project provides one-on-one legal assistance…