How we can help

Our advocates can help homeless people:

• Get Social Security, SSI or other benefits if denied
• Handle complaints of police harassment
• Fight illegal barriers to voting, going to school, or other civil rights
• With most other civil legal problems

How to get help

All of our offices will help homeless persons who are otherwise eligible for our help and within our priorities.   Come to one of our walk-in clinics (see below) or contact the office nearest you.  You do not need an appointment to come to a walk-in clinic.  When you meet with us, bring any and all papers that you have about your problem.

       Walk-In Clinics

• First and Third Wednesday of the month, 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the SLLS' New Orleans office. 1010 Common, Suite 1400A (Annex Building), New Orleans, LA  70112
• First and third Tuesday of the month from 1:30 p.m., West Jefferson Medical Center TCC. 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Gretna.
• Last Thursday of the month, from 10:00 a.m. Abstract Last Hope outreach. 1302 Magazine St., New Orleans.
• Last Thursday of the month, from 2:15 p.m. Ozanam Inn Outreach. 843 Camp St., New Orleans.
• Last Thursday of the month, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Total Community Action, Family Matters Outreach. 1420 Jefferson Davis Parkway, New Orleans.    

If you are part of a facility that serves the homeless, and would like one of our staff members to have a clinic there either once a month or on an ongoing basis, or give an informational presentation on almost any legal topic, please give us a call.

For more information about a clinic, or to make an appointment in the New Orleans area, please call Rita Pereira, Managing Attorney, at (504) 529-1000, ext. 252.  If you have an emergency, such as an appeal deadline or hearing date, call us immediately.