LEGAL AID SERVICE
OF BROWARD COUNTY

About Legal Aid

Services

SPECIAL PROJECT UNIT

Barriers to Education: The Client Self-Sufficiency SUCCESS Project provides legal counseling and representation to Broward County residents who are eligible for various county-funded programs, such as Workforce One, Vocational Rehabilitation, and other county programs. We take a holistic approach in helping you overcome the legal barriers that may have kept you from achieving your goal of obtaining higher education and becoming authentically self-sufficient.

Legal Aid will provide several types of services, beginning with evaluating any legal barriers, and will provide the necessary legal representation to help you obtain your goals. Other Special Projects: We take on cases that have a community-wide impact. Past examples include litigation involving issues such as access to health care for the indigent, violations of due process rights, such as the right to proper notice and a hearing for City code violations, and in hiring at the School Board of Broward County. We also have taken on the issue of abuses in background checks affecting the ability of our clients to obtain employment after completing their education or training program, and/or in obtaining professional licenses.

Who is Eligible

Individuals whose income is not more than 187% of the federal poverty guidelines.

What We Do

Legal Aid Service of Broward County's Special Projects Unit represents clients in administrative hearings as well as county, circuit, and federal court.

What You Need:

  • Drivers License or other picture identification
  • Proof of Income (pay stubs or social security award letter) and/or
  • Tax Returns for all adult members of applicant's household
  • All legal or other document pertaining to the legal problem
  • If applicant is not a U.S. citizen:
    • Proof of alien status (permanent resident card)

Intake:

Clients are seen by appointment only. Call 954-736-2422. Initial interviews are at the Legal Aid Center for Law and Social Justice located at 491 North State Road 7, Plantation, Florida 33317.

Links to Helpful Websites:

Success Project:

Agency for Workforce Innovation
Dynamic Works Institute (formerly Learning Link) 
 Enterprise Florida, Inc. 
 Florida Department of Education 
Division of Blind Services 
 Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Florida National Entrepreneur Center (NEC) 
 Florida Resource Directory 
 Information Technology Task Force 
 State Agency and Services Directory (MyFlorida.com) 
 Florida Association of Rehabilitation Facilities 
 Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs 
 Florida Department of Juvenile Justice 
 Florida Department of Elder Affairs 
 Florida Department of Children and Families

 


SPECIAL PROJECTS


 

WHO WE ARE: The Special Projects Unit
Legal Aid Service of Broward County’s Special Projects Unit assists individuals with:

Success Project, barriers to education: The Client Self-Sufficiency SUCCESS Project provides legal counseling and representation to Broward County residents who are eligible for various County-funded programs, such as Workforce One, Vocational Rehabilitation, and other County programs.  We take a holistic approach in helping you overcome the legal barriers that may have kept you from achieving your goal of obtaining higher education and becoming authentically self-sufficient.  Legal Aid will provide several types of services, beginning with evaluating any legal barriers, and will provide the necessary legal representation to help you obtain your goals.

Environmental Justice: Our advocacy includes representation of area residents who have been exposed to environmental contaminants such as arsenic, lead, and dioxin because they live in close proximity to old landfills and incinerator sites, Superfund sites, and other contaminated sites.  

Other Special Projects: We take on cases that have a community-wide impact.  Past examples include litigation involving issues such as access to health care for the indigent and violations of due process rights, such as the right to proper notice and a hearing for City code violations.   We also have taken on the issue of abuses in background checks affecting the ability of our clients to obtain employment after completing their education or training program, and/or in obtaining professional licenses.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE
Individuals whose income is not more than 125% of the federal poverty guidelines.

WHAT WE DO
Legal Aid’s Special Projects Unit has represented clients in administrative hearings as well as county, circuit, and federal court.   

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING WITH YOU:

 

  • Drivers License or other picture identification
  • Proof of Income (pay stubs or social security award letter) and/or
  • Tax Returns for all adult members of applicant's household
  • All legal or other document pertaining to the legal problem

CONTACT
Clients are seen by appointment only.  Call 954-736-2422.  Initial interviews are at the Legal Aid Center for Law and Social Justice located at 491 North State  Road 7, Plantation, Florida 33317.

HELPFUL WEBSITES:

Success Project:  

Environmental:


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