Community Advocacy
Our Community Advocacy program helps low-income individuals with a variety of legal problems by connecting them with trained, non-lawyer advocates who work under an attorney’s supervision.
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We deal most often with issues like:
- Landlord/tenant disputes
- Unpaid wages and employment issues
- Government benefits
- Driver’s relicensing
- Criminal record expungement
- Credit repair
- Consumer protection
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- While we would like to help everyone, our resources are limited. If you qualify for Community Advocacy, an advocate will work with you to establish a plan for resolving your problem. There is an administrative fee of $25, but it can be waived based on your financial situation. The Center can only help as many people as we have current resources and staffing to allow. Thus, please be advised that there may be periods during the year where we cannot schedule new intakes. These periods are usually short-lived.
Street Law
The popular free legal advice service will return to Riverfront Park in late May and run into early September. We gather on Saturdays (except for Hoopfest Weekend) on the South Howard Street Bridge, just north of the Carousel, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Driver Re-Licensing
The Center for Justice handles driver re-licensing for Third Degree suspensions of licenses on account of unpaid fines. As part of this program, the Center currently hosts classes on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.
If you are suspended in the 3rd degree, these are the steps you must take to recover 
your license:
1) First, apply to the Re-Licensing Program at the City Prosecutor’s office at 909 W. Mallon, 2nd Floor. If you qualify for the program you must complete the program there. Appointments are walk-in only.
2) If you don’t qualify for the City program, you’ll be given a referral packet to the Center for Justice’s Re-Licensing Program.
3) To qualify for the Center’s program you must call and sign-up for the twice monthly Re-Licensing class. To do that, please call us at 835-5211. Sign-up is by phone only. For email inquiries, please write us at info@cforjustice.org.
The Center for Justice is in the Community Building, Third Floor, 35 W. Main Avenue on the corner of Browne & Main, a block south of the new Spokane Convention Center.
Assistance for Women
The Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor offers two informative Web sites managed by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). These Web sites offer information and resources for working women and their families, and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The first is the official benefits Web site of the U.S. Government, connects citizens from all walks of life to government benefit and assistance programs that meet their specific needs. This one-stop source provides citizens with the ability to complete a free and confidential questionnaire that will match their individual needs to more than 1,000 Federal and State assistance programs, including disaster relief, employment services, education, housing, small-business loans, Medicare and more. Using this free and confidential questionnaire, visitors can quickly receive a customized list of benefits that they may be eligible to receive.
The second site is managed by DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy and is a collaborative effort among 22 Federal agency partners. Its mission is to offer access to information on disability-related programs, services and initiatives that cross multiple jurisdictions, and to connect people with disabilities to the resources they need to actively participate in the workforce and in their communities.
Fair Housing Issues
The Northwest Fair Housing Alliance website offers a good array of information regarding the rights of homeowners and tenants. The Alliance, like the Center, is housed in the Community Building at 35 W. Main Avenue, at Suite 250 and can be contacted by phone at (509) 325-2665.