Volunteers of Legal Service
The VOLS Elderly Project provides free civil legal assistance to elderly (60+) low income residents of Manhattan. Legal services in the Elderly Project are provided in four ways: through legal clinics for the elderly poor, legal information seminars for seniors and social work staff; telephone consultations with senior center staff; and direct referrals of appropriate legal matters to volunteer lawyers.
Call 212-966-4400 for locations and schedules of legal clinics.
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Legal Services for the Elderly in Queens
Legal Services for the Elderly in Queens provides civil legal services to needy residents of Queens 60 and older. Legal Services for the Elderly in Queens provides legal representation and consultation on a wide variety of legal problems of critical importance to older people. The most common legal problems of their clients are those concerning: tenants & housing, SSI & Social Security, Medicaid & Medicare, Food Stamps, utilities & consumer issues such as foreclosure, predatory lending and debt collection.
To contact this group, CALL (718) 286-1500
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MFY Legal Services
Mental Health Law Project assists over 1,000 mentally disabled individuals living in apartments in their communities and in adult care facilities, providing advocacy services, consultation, advice, direct representation, and trainings.
Adult Home Advocacy Project provides advocacy and trainings to adult home residents throughout New York City and pursues individual and affirmative litigation on issues that impact adult home residents.
Manhattan Legal Aid for Seniors Project provides holistic civil legal services to seniors living in Manhattan to help them live independent, healthy and productive lives. The project is operated in partnership with the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation.
(212) 417-3700
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Project Metropair
In contract with the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty, the New York City Department for the Aging operates Project Metropair. This program, funded by a grant from the New York City Council, is a home safety and security repair program for individuals over 60 years of age and for people with disabilities. This mobile service, among other things, will provide smoke alarms, security viewers, and grab bars. Project Metropair can be reached at Voice 1 (212) 453-9524 or (212) 453-9542. TTY users please use Relay System.
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Isaac H. Tuttle Fund
The mission of the Isaac H. Tuttle Fund, as reflected in its Certificate of Incorporation of 1872, is to provide for the temporal and spiritual welfare of aged persons. We provide direct financial support to individuals and to not-for-profit community-based organizations that provide services to seniors in Manhattan, New York. Our goal is to enable older persons to continue living in their own homes so long as they are physically and mentally able to do so.
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