Legal Services for Children (LSC) strongly believes in upholding values of equity, safety, and justice for the communities we serve. We collaborate with the following community partners to create a holistic approach to transformative justice and to better equip our clients for times of opportunity and adversity.
Since 2013, Close the Gap has organized regular community town hall meetings on school climate, the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) and other important equity issues. We advocate for new strategies and increased resources to implement the Safe and Supportive Schools Policy, improve school climate and reduce suspensions that disproportionately impact students of color. The coalition is convened by a Steering Committee including representatives from Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, United Educations of San Francisco, SEIU Local 1021, Jobs with Justice, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Legal Services for Children, and SF Families Union.
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The Center for Somatic Psychotherapy (CSP) trainees and interns are profoundly dedicated to the individuals, couples, families, and groups—welcoming people of all ages, racial and cultural backgrounds, bodily expressions, and sexual orientations—from our diverse Bay Area communities who comprise the clientele. In addition to CSP’s student clinicians providing thousands of sessions on-site annually, our passion is making connection with community organizations with the intention to provide support to people who have less or no access to mental health care services.
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We are a member of Family for Every Child, a global alliance of local civil society organisations from around the world, working together to ensure that more children grow up safe and protected within families. Through Family, we advocate for better child protection policies and services, we share good practices and innovation, we carry out research on the issues faced by children in our contexts and we continuously learn from each other and with partners to improve the way we work.
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Fix School Discipline is a comprehensive resource for school superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, students, community leaders and organizations and anyone who is interested in learning about how to eliminate harsh, push-out discipline practices and put in place solutions that work for all students. Here, you can find the latest data and news about the impacts that suspensions and expulsion have on students and school climate.
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FREE SF represents the joining of the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee (SFIRDC) and the San Francisco Progressive Criminal Justice Network. We are a coalition of organizations advocating for community safety, transformative justice, immigrant rights, and self-determination. Our work was motivated by the issues we witnessed in our immigrant communities in San Francisco. We used our diverse skills and organizational expertise along with our community power to advocate for policies to uphold our values of equality and immigrant justice in the city and county of San Francisco.
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Ready California is a cross-sector collaborative effort to support organizations providing information and legal services to immigrant community members so they can prepare for and respond to emerging opportunities and challenges.
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The San Francisco Immigration Legal Defense Collaborative (SFILDC) is a collective of Bay Area organizations dedicated to serving the San Francisco immigrant community. We provide free, high quality, culturally competent legal services on behalf of immigrant children and families. Through direct legal representation, informed advocacy, and technical assistance, we work together to protect immigrants’ rights and advance universal access to counsel.
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