ALA-MA Partners

• Boston University School of Law
• Children's Law Center
• Community Legal Aid, Central West Justice Center
• DOVE, Inc.
• Greater Boston Legal Services, Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services
• Massachusetts CASA Association
• Massachusetts Fair Housing Center
• Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
• Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee
• MetroWest Legal Services
• Northeast Legal Aid
• South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts
• Veterans Legal Services

Boston University School of Law
Boston

Boston University is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world. The BU Law Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program (“IRHTP”), launched in July 2017, combines BU Law’s nationally recognized Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and the Human Trafficking Clinic. In IRHTP, advocates learn practical legal skills while providing pro bono representation to vulnerable non-citizens facing deportation and survivors of human trafficking. The primary goals of IRHTP are to: (1) increase legal protections for vulnerable populations, including noncitizen survivors of persecution, torture, crime and abuse, and survivors of human trafficking, through pro bono direct legal representation; (2) contribute to the policy landscape by providing new models to address emerging challenges in the immigrants’ rights and human trafficking context; and (3) create a rich learning landscape for law students to develop critical lawyering skills. Advocates in IRHTP represent clients with a variety of legal issues, including supporting clients to apply for immigration status and defend against removal, recover unpaid wages, participate as victim-witnesses in the criminal legal process, and seal or vacate criminal records. 

• Opening: Immigration Rights and Human Trafficking Advocate  (Boston) - FILLED

Children's Law Center
Lynn, MA

Consistent with its mission, the Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts (CLCM) aims to secure equal justice and maximize opportunity for low-income children and youth across the state by providing quality, culturally sensitive advocacy and legal services. The CLCM provides a comprehensive array of legal representation in the areas of education, child welfare (abuse & neglect), immigration, juvenile justice, and various other matters such as mental health, insurance access, family-law related issues, and support to victims of crime. The CLCM provides individual representation and related advocacy services to children in Essex County and Greater Boston, with an emphasis on Lynn, Lawrence, Chelsea, Salem and surrounding communities.

The legal services which CLCM provides support immigrant clients with opportunities and comforts that they otherwise would not have available to them. Case outcomes can range from these children being kept safe, remaining in the United States, securing an education, finding genuine, productive work, and, on a longer-term basis, living the American Dream. An AmeriCorps member available to work specifically within CLCM's immigration unit would allow for additional capacity to address the critical needs of this community of young people.

•  Position - Immigration (Lynn) - FILLED

Community Legal Aid, Central West Justice Center
Worcester, Springfield, Northampton

Community Legal Aid is the state-funded civil legal aid program serving central and western Massachusetts. Central West Justice Center is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CLA. These programs provide free legal assistance to low-income clients in the areas of elder law, housing law, immigration law, government benefits and unemployment compensation, family law, and discrimination. Regions: Central and Western Massachusetts. 

• Opening: Immigration Advocate (Springfield) - FILLED
• Opening: Education Advocate (Worcester or Western MA) - FILLED
• Opening: Intake Specialist for Victims of Crime (Northampton) - FILLED
• Opening: Family Law (Worcester or Springfield) - FILLED
• Opening: Criminal Records/Re-Entry Advocate (Worcester or Western MA) - FILLED

DOVE, Inc.
Quincy

DOVE's mission is "Hope, Healing, Safety, Social change. Working together to end domestic and partner violence." We are a multi-service organization providing comprehensive direct services and support for victims of dating and domestic violence and their children. DOVE’s services include crisis intervention, danger assessment and safety planning, supportive counseling, emergency shelter, legal advice, advocacy and representation, and community outreach, education, and training. To be eligible for legal services, clients must be survivors of intimate partner abuse and be residents of or have a legal case in Norfolk County.  

Greater Boston Legal Services, Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services
Boston, Cambridge

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a professional team of attorneys and paralegals providing most needed legal advice and representation for low-income individuals in Massachusetts. GBLS programs cover several different critical service areas that include housing, employment, immigration, family law, CORI and Re-entry project, consumer rights, welfare and public assistance law, and the protection of elderly and people with disability. Thousands of low-income individuals and families were served directly through legal representations as well as through GBLS systemic advocacy work on behalf of our clients and the community. Region: Greater Boston. 

• Opening: Consumer Advocate (Boston) - FILLED
• Opening: Employment Advocate (Boston) - FILLED
• Opening: Elder, Health and Disability Law Advocate (Boston) - FILLED
• Opening: Welfare Advocate (Boston) - FILLED
• Opening: Immigration Advocate (Boston) - FILLED
• Opening: Criminal Records Advocate (Boston) - FILLED
• Opening: Housing/Benefits Advocate (Cambridge) - FILLED

Massachusetts CASA Association
Boston

The mission of the Massachusetts CASA Association is to support and develop local CASA volunteer advocacy programs to champion the best interests of children in the Commonwealth’s child protection system.  MA CASA envisions a Commonwealth where every child has the opportunity to thrive in a safe and permanent home.

MA CASA serves:

1. To provide capacity-building support to local CASA programs around volunteer recruitment, training, and supervision.  
2. To raise public awareness about CASA, its mission, and the experience of children and families involved in the child welfare system.
3. To provide statewide training and professional development opportunities for CASA staff and volunteers.
4. To be a catalyst for statewide CASA growth and expansion leading to more children being appointed advocates.
5. To coordinate a highly effective statewide public policy agenda that will result in a more just and equitable child welfare system and better outcomes for children and their families. 
6. To lead the CASA network in measuring its efficiency, effectiveness, and impact.

• Opening: Child Welfare Law and Policy Advocate (Boston) - FILLED

Massachusetts Fair Housing Center
Holyoke

The Massachusetts Fair Housing Center serves Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester Counties. MFHC provides free legal services and accepts housing discrimination complaints based on race, national origin, color, ancestry, religion, sex, disability, presence of minor children, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, receipt of public assistance, including Section 8 housing assistance, receipt of housing subsidies or rental assistance, and genetic information. MFHC also preserves homeownership, by advocating for distressed homeowners in mortgage lending cases, and by assisting victims of foreclosure rescue scams. Region: Western Massachusetts. 

• Opening: Fair Housing Advocate (Holyoke) - FILLED

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Boston

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute is the statewide legal services support center. MLRI advocates for low-income people, minorities, immigrants, elders, and people with disabilities in their struggles for basic human needs; defend against measures that harm people living in poverty; advocate for systemic reforms that achieve social justice; and provide support that will enable others to carry out these objectives. Region: Greater Boston. 

• Opening: Benefits/Family Law/Victims of Crime Advocate (Boston) - FILLED
• Opening: Housing/Community Advocacy Advocate (Boston) - FILLED

Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee
Quincy

The Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee is a state agency within the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts charged with advising and advocating for indigent individuals with mental health issues on a range of legal matters. MHLAC does legal work in areas including mental health law, rights in institutional settings, restraint, education and special education law, juvenile justice law, family law, guardianship matters, access to mental health care, mental health insurance reform, and insurance discrimination. Region: Greater Boston. 

• Opening: Mental Health Law Advocate (Quincy) - FILLED

MetroWest Legal Services
Framingham

MetroWest Legal Services (MWLS) provides free legal advocacy in civil cases to protect and advance the rights of the poor, elderly, disabled, homeless and other disenfranchised individuals and families in our service area so they may obtain legal, social and economic justice. MWLS assists client-eligible persons in securing access to basic needs and in challenging institutional barriers in order to achieve justice. Incorporated in August 1976, MetroWest Legal Services (MWLS) provides legal advocacy to protect the rights and improve the lives of poor, elderly, disabled and otherwise disenfranchised individuals and families in the 45 cities and towns in our service area. MWLS is the only provider of free civil legal aid in our geographic region.  Region: MetroWest Massachusetts. 

• Opening: Housing Law (Framingham) - FILLED
• Opening: Elder/Benefits Law Advocate (Framingham) - FILLED
• Opening: Family Law/Pro Bono Advocate (Framingham) - FILLED

Northeast Legal Aid
Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence

Northeast Legal Aid is the primary civil legal aid program serving Northeast Massachusetts. NLA represents low-income clients, elders and veterans in the areas of housing evictions and foreclosures, consumer debt, public benefits, immigration, community development, health law, and domestic violence. Region: Northeast Massachusetts. 

• Openings: Housing Advocate (2 positions - Lynn or Lawrence) - FILLED
• Opening: Family Advocate (Lowell) - FILLED

South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts
Fall River, New Bedford, Brockton, and Hyannis

South Coastal Counties Legal Services is a non-profit corporation which provides free civil legal services to low-income and elderly residents in Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, and Plymouth Counties, and the towns of Avon and Stoughton. The Justice Center is a wholly owned subsidiary of SCCLS. The programs provide civil legal assistance to low-income residents, elders, and veterans in the areas of housing, family law, benefits, immigration/asylum law, elder law, and education law. Region: Southeast Massachusetts. 

• Opening: Housing Law Advocate (New Bedford) - FILLED
• Opening:  Consumer Law Advocate (FILLED)
• Opening: Family Law/Estate Planning/Pro Bono Advocate (Fall River) - FILLED
• Opening:  Generalist for Victims of Crime (Fall River) - FILLED
• Opening:  Elder/Benefits Advocate (Hyannis) - FILLED
• Openings: Immigration Law Advocate (2 positions, Brockton) - FILLED
• Opening:  Medical Legal Partnership Advocate (Brockton) - FILLED

Veterans Legal Services
Boston

Veterans Legal Services promotes equity by providing free and comprehensive civil legal aid services to economically disadvantaged military veterans in Massachusetts. VLS helps former service members obtain the stability and financial security necessary to live the healthy, happy, and dignified lives they deserve.

​​​VLS partners with veterans' services organizations throughout Massachusetts because legal aid is an essential service in the holistic care of veterans. VLS specializes in eviction/homelessness prevention, helping veterans access financial and medical benefits, appealing discharge orders, and promoting healthy family relationships by securing equitable divorce, child custody, parenting time, and child support arrangements. Region: Greater Boston.

• Openings:  Generalist (2 positions - Boston) - FILLED