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Provides services to prevent homelessness and facilitates the transition from homelessness to permanent housing. Provides direct housing search assistance, advocacy, financial assistance, case management, and job skills training. Offers bus tokens to homeless individuals for transportation to Department of Social Services.

211 Central New York

Founded in 2020, The Cornell Law School Tenants Advocacy Program is a law school clinic where experienced attorneys, law students, and undergraduate volunteers work together year-round to provide free legal services to residential tenants in upstate New York. Our team has helped tenants avoid eviction, receive repairs, recover security deposits, and more. For more information about us, please visit sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/tenants-advocacy. To request free legal assistance, please call our hotline at 607-301-1560 or submit an online intake form at https://ithacatenantresources.org/tlh/intake

211 Tompkins Cortland

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

Provides family, community, commercial, and special mediation (custody/visitation, family issues, landlord/tenant, consumer/merchant, and special education). Provides arbitration and small claims court mediation. Offers educational services to schools and groups/organizations/businesses on conflict resolution, and peer mediation.

211 North East New York

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

*Offers Mediation Services

• Community Mediation includes:
  • Landlord-Tenant disputes
  • Neighbor disputes, including neighborhood or homeowner groups
  • Small claims and supreme court cases
  • Peer/school disputes
  • Special Education (IEP)/school disputes
  • Coworkers, or supervisors and subordinates
  • Disputes between the community and the police
• Family Mediation includes:
  • Divorce or separation
  • Parenting plans; including custody, visitation and child support
  • Disputes between parents and children
  • Elder care

211 Mid New York

Provides a hotline available for fraud reporting, for consumers, insurance, medicaid, landord/tenant issues, etc. Also offers a "Tenants Rights Guide" with information about leases, safety, repairs, and rights available to both tenants and landlords.

211 North East New York

Offers family, community, commercial, and special mediation (custody/visitation, family issues, landlord/tenant, consumer/merchant, and special education). Provides arbitration and small claims court mediation.

211 Central New York

Housing navigation assistance for Tompkins County residents. Assistance with the following:Eviction preventionThe process of accessing rental, legal, financial, and other resourcesEviction court attendance and tenant supportNavigating tenant and landlord issuesOutreach to affordable housing developments and other community locations

211 Tompkins Cortland

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

Provides a hotline available for fraud reporting, for consumers, insurance, medicaid, landord/tenant issues, etc. Also offers a "Tenants Rights Guide" with information about leases, safety, repairs, and rights available to both tenants and landlords.

211 North East New York

Assistance to low-income individuals with civil legal issues in areas of: Public benefits (including Public Assistance, Food Stamps, HEAP, and Medicaid) Unemployment insurance (denials and terminations) Housing issues (including landlord/tenant relations, evictions, homelessness prevention, public housing and subsidized housing (Section 8) Social Security Disability (SSD) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) denials, terminations, overpayments and underpayments Foreclosure services, including: representation at settlement conferences foreclosure defenses help getting loan modifications (before or after a foreclosure action has been filed) negotiating with lenders and loan servicers help with short sales help to tenants living in foreclosed properties facing eviction Employment Rights and Rights of Persons with Criminal Records (Tompkins, Tioga, Chemung and Schuyler Counties) Employment Discrimination Employment Clearance for Background Checks by Public Agencies Certificates of Relief from Disability/ Certificates of Good Conduct Public Benefits denials based on Criminal Record ("Fleeing Felon" and UIB Misconduct) Employment Discrimination based on Criminal Record (Re-entry issues) Legal education and advice to community groups; and other non-criminal cases Uncontested divorces may be handled by pro bono (volunteer) attorneys or through pro se (do it yourself) clinics. Call for availability. DOES NOT HANDLE: criminal cases traffic violations DUIs security deposit returns small claims court cases Family Court issues divorce Provides services via referral from these organizations: Tompkins and Tioga County Offices for the Aging: counsel and advice or brief service without regard to income for senior citizens Advocacy Center: limited legal services to adult victims of sexual assault A New Hope Center: limited legal services to adult victims of sexual assault

211 Tompkins Cortland

Assists in landlord/tenant issues and is active in rural, homeless prevention and assistance in affordable housing for working families.

211 Central New York

Files complaints and investigates reports of discrimination under federal, state and local laws in Tompkins and surrounding counties. investigates disputes and violations under local, state and federal anti-discrimination laws provides protection for community members in these areas: employment, housing, credit, public accommodation and public non-sectarian educational institutions provides public information on legal rights through forums, seminars and public resources disseminates materials on such topics as: tenant's rights, preventing sexual harassment, service animals, sexual orientation discrimination, pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, military/veteran's rights, disability discrimination, employment discrimination, age discrimination, domestic violence, sexual assault and places of public accommodation conducts legislative and educational advocacy for civil and human rights laws, affirmative action regulation and discrimination laws implements and monitors countywide workforce inclusion and diversity initiatives, equal opportunity and contract compliance

211 Tompkins Cortland

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

Lawyers provide free civil (non-criminal) advice, counseling, advocacy, and representation to low-income individual clients/groups.

211 Susquehanna UW Vestal

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

Assists in locating housing, linking people to public assistance, rental subsidies and financial assistance, advocating with landlords, and assisting in conflict resolution.

211 Central New York

Lawyers provide free civil (non-criminal) advice, counseling, advocacy, and representation to low-income individual clients/groups.

211 Susquehanna UW Vestal

Emergency Housing Provides comprehensive services to at-risk and homeless households to promote retention and maintenance of safe, affordable housing, access to support services and provides case management. Also provides Emergency Shelter for Code Blue.Housing Services Provides housing education, counseling, and budgeting guidance for renters, homeowners and potential homeowners.Transitional Housing Provides supports and financial assistance to victims who have become homeless as a result of fleeing an abusive situation.

211 Susquehanna UW Vestal

211 Life Line Finger Lakes

Assists in locating housing, linking people to public assistance, rental subsidies and financial assistance, advocating with landlords, and assisting in conflict resolution.

211 Mid New York

Offers pro bono legal services to low income battered individuals in matters related to safety, financial support and custody of children. Provides assistance with orders of protection, paternity or child support orders, visitation of children and charges of child neglect due to domestic violence.

211 North East New York

Provides trained mediators who assist parties develop agreements that meet the needs of all parties involved in disputes.

211 Susquehanna UW Vestal