California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc.
The California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF)
is a non-profit organization providing community education,
public policy advocacy, training, technical and legal
assistance to California’s rural poor. CRLAF’s
mission is to assist rural poor people to improve their
economic, social, and political conditions in the United
States. CRLAF targets its work in the areas of civil
rights, community and economic development, education,
employment, environmental justice, health, housing,
immigration, labor, pesticides, worker safety, and workers’
rights.
CRLAF Projects:
Border Project: The Border Project provides
technical assistance, advocacy support and direct legal
representation to low income and minority individuals
in San Diego and Imperial Counties. The Project’s
work addresses INS misconduct issues, labor standards
violations affecting indigenous farm workers, racial
discrimination against Latinos, and community development
work.
Citizenship, Naturalization and Immigration:
The California Rural Citizenship Campaign (CRCC) provides
extensive community education and outreach, advocacy,
training, legal and technical assistance in the more
marginalized immigrant communities throughout rural
California.
CRCC work focuses on providing outreach and information
on the naturalization process, the effects of the welfare
and immigration reform laws on immigrants, the immigration
consequences of criminal convictions, and immigration
relief and benefits. CRCC provides training to community
advocates on immigration and naturalization law and
direct assistance to immigrant communities with applying
for citizenship.
Education Project: The Education Project provides
technical assistance, advocacy support, and training
to legal service projects, elementary and secondary
educational institutions, other public entities, and
low income individuals statewide. The Education Project
engages in legislative and administrative advocacy around
education law issues, particularly bilingual education.
The Education Project participates in a number of statewide
taskforces related to education policy.
Environmental Justice: The Center on Race, Poverty
& the Environment (CRPE) provides technical assistance
to help communities identify environmental hazards and
participate in environmental review process, training
to create and build local community groups, representation
of community groups in hearings and in court, and assistance
in the policy-making process to address environmental
concerns of rural communities. CRPE is dedicated to
helping the rural poor and communities of color resist
threats to their environmental health and safety.
Labor and Civil Rights Litigation: The Labor
and Civil Rights Litigation Project provides technical
assistance, advocacy support, co-counseling and direct
legal representation to low-income individuals on labor,
employment, and education issues. The Litigation Project
is directed by attorney Cynthia Rice.
Labor and Employment: The project carries out
policy-oriented research and farm worker field surveys,
conducts legislative and administrative advocacy in
the wage & hour, unemployment insurance, and farm
worker law areas, both at the state and federal levels,
and provides training, technical assistance and advocacy
support to California legal services programs.
Pesticides and Worker Safety: The Pesticides
& Worker Safety Project provides technical assistance,
advocacy support and direct legal representation to
farm workers adversely affected by substandard health
and safety practices. The Project's work includes monitoring
of employer compliance with CAL-OSHA standards; evaluation
and advocacy of pesticide reduction strategies; and
training of farm workers in work safety issues.
Rural Health: The Rural Health Advocacy Institute
has as its mission to ensure equal access to health
care for California's farm worker and rural indigent
population through a three-part strategy of health status
data development, analysis and dissemination; public
policy analysis and discussion; and community outreach,
education and advocacy.
Rural Housing: The Rural Housing Project engages
in legislative and administrative advocacy around low-income
rural and farmworker housing issues, publishes a quarterly
newsletter on state housing issues ("Capitol Gains"),
conducts training on housing issues throughout the state
and maintains a web page on rural and farmworker issues
at www.housingadvocates.org.
Office Address:
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
2210 K Street, Suite 201
Sacramento, California 95816
(916) 446-7901
www.crlaf.org
For more information, please contact the following
advocates:
Marcus Brown, housing
mbrown@housingadvocates.org
Luke Cole, environmental justice
luke@crpesf.org
Anne Katten, pesticides & worker safety
akatten@mother.com
Juanita Ontiveros, special projects
citizens@jps.net
Amagda Perez, immigration & naturalization
citizens2@jps.net
Cynthia Rice, education & civil rights
crice@norcov.com
Mark S. Schacht, employment & labor
email@markschacht.com
Claudia Smith, border issues
crlafoceanside@hotmail.com
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