We provide free legal help to people who have experienced foster care, who are homeless, or who lack family support.

Legal Issues That We Can Help With:

• Obtain your identification documents
• Advocate for your rights while you are in foster care
• Assist with transition planning if you feel your needs are not being met
• Help your voice be heard in court
• Request your CPS records after you turn 18
• Access and keep Medicaid benefits
• Connect you with DFPS staff who are responsible for providing your benefits, including your tuition waiver

• Understand your immigration status and replace lost or stolen documents
• Change or correct your name
• Seal juvenile records and expunge eligible criminal records
• Help to resolve current or old Class C citations and restore driver license eligibility
• Assist in returning to extended foster care
• Appeal a denial of SSI benefits
• Ask the court for visits with your siblings
• Emancipation for 16- and 17-year-olds who are not in foster care