2009 RESOURCE GUIDE
Section 2. Local and State Resources: (Last updated: Monday, September 28, 2009 10:17 AM )
LEGAL SERVICES
Legal Services for Children 1254 Market St., 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94102	Tel: (415) 863-3762 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 863-7708	Comprehensive, free legal services for children. Experience with developmental disabilities issues varies depending on staff.
E-mail: N/A                 Web site: N/A
Disability Rights California 1330 Broadway, Suite 500 Oakland, CA 94612	Tel: (800) 776-5746 TDD: (800) 649-0154 Fax:	DRC is a nonprofit agency that works in partnership with people with disabilities to protect, advocate for and advance their human, legal and service rights.
E-mail: info@disabilityrightsca.org     Web site: www.pai-ca.org
San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation 225 Bush St., 7th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104	Tel: (415) 982-1300 TDD: N/A Fax: N/A	Provides legal assistance for low-income San Francisco. The Welfare Advocacy Unit assists with Social Security, SSI, General Assistance, Medi-Cal, Medicare, TANF, food stamps and unemployment insurance problems.
E-mail: N/A                 Web site: N/A
SF Bar Association, Lawyer Referral Service 465 California St., Suite 1100 San Francisco, CA 94104	Tel: (415) 989-1616 TDD: (415) 782-8985 Fax: (415) 477-2389	Lawyer Referral Services refers clients to experienced, insured attorneys in San Francisco. It screens for eligibility for free services and makes appropriate referrals to other agencies.
E-mail: N/A                 Web site: www.sfbar.org
Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco 465 California St., Suite 1100 San Francisco, CA 94105-4212	Tel: (415) 982-1600 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 477-2390	Provides free legal assistance to children with disabilities facing SSI issues -- applications, terminations, overpayments.
E-mail:vlsp@sfbar.org                  Web site: www.sfbar.org
Youth Law Center 114 Sansome St., Suite 950 San Francisco, CA 94103	Tel: (415) 543-3379 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 956-9022	A national non-profit public-interest law organization that works to protect disadvantaged children, focusing on those who are apart from their families and living in foster care or the juvenile justice system.
E-mail: info@ylc.org     Web site: www.ylc.org

The resource list above is for your information; it is not necessarily comprehensive and is not an endorsement of the services offered. If you find that any of the information is incorrect, if you would like to offer any feedback, or if you know of additional resources that may be helpful to include in the future, please let us know. You can call us at (415) 920-5040, e-mail us at info@supportforfamilies.org or write to us c/o Open Gate, 2601 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110. Thank you to all the agencies who completed our Request for Information form and thank you as well to community resource databases such as Helplink and the San Francisco Public Library Community Connection for lending valuable assistance.