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The Rhode Island Center for Justice is a non-profit public interest law center that partners with community groups to strengthen existing advocacy and service provision with legal representation and strategy. Our legal practice areas⁠—including housing, immigration, workers’ rights, criminal justice, education, and utility shutoffs⁠—reflect the most pressing needs of low-income people in our state. At the core of our model is a partnership with Roger Williams University School of Law, which includes a post-graduate fellowship program, collaboration with pro bono and experiential education, and a joint commitment to building the next generation of public interest attorneys in Rhode Island. The Center brings together new lawyers, supervising legal staff, community groups, mentoring attorneys, and law students to make legal protection a reality where need is greatest.

Rhode Island Legal Services provides high quality legal assistance and representation to low-income individuals and eligible client groups for the purpose of improving their economic condition and overall well being by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit and communities where clients live, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, preventing homelessness, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with added burdens on their ability to access the civil justice system. Law areas serviced: CONSUMER Automobile, Bankruptcy, Consumer Law, Identity Theft, PUBLIC BENEFITS Food Stamps, Social Security, Taxation, Temporary Disability Insurance, ELDER LAW Abuse/Domestic Violence, Discrimination, Health Benefits, Other Resources, HOUSING Court Forms, Evictions, Home Purchase, Improvement and Foreclosure, Landlord/Tenant. Pro Bono. CRIMINAL LAW, DISABILITY RIGHTS, EDUCATION General Special Education, Student Loans ELDER LAW Abuse/Domestic Violence, Discrimination, Health Benefits, Other Resources, Social Security Benefits EMPLOYMENT Criminal Records, Discrimination, If you lose your job, Work Support ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Air Pollution, Lead Paint, Other Environmental Justice. FAMILY LAW Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Miscellaneous. HEALTH CARE Addiction Support Other Resources, AIDS/HIV, Home and Long Term Care, Medicaid, Medicare. HOUSING Court Forms, Evictions, Home Purchase, Improvement and Foreclosure, Landlord/ Tenant, Mobile Home Parks. IMMIGRATION. LEGAL RESEARCH Courts and Case Law, Statues and Regulations. PUBLIC BENEFITS Food Stamps, Social Security, Taxation, Temporary Disability Insurance, Unemployment Compensation, Veterans Benefits.

Works to lead and influence change that improves the quality of life for Latinos in Rhode Island. CHisPA works with community groups, educational institutions, federal, state and local government units, foundations and corporations to improve opportunities for Latinos and other minority groups. Services and activities include Information and Referral, an alternative school for high risk youth, community education, leadership development and other capacity-building programs. Technical assistance to emerging local groups and leadership in the areas of health access and education. Income Source: Membership fees; fund raising activities, grants.

A non-profit law firm representing clients in matters involving public benefits, health, welfare, landlord-tenant, family law, domestic violence, education, consumer, tax and employment law matters. RILS is a major provider of free civil legal assistance to low income clients in the State of Rhode Island. A client centered program that seeks to expand its outreach through a collaborative approach to building a "justice community". The agency concentrates on the types of cases that tend to stabilize the family unit in a safe environment. Services range from advice and counsel to direct representation in complex litigation.

The Homeless Legal Clinic (HLC) was established in the Spring of 1990 in an effort to address the legal needs of homeless people in Rhode Island. The HLC relies on volunteers to provide legal services to the homeless without charge. The objective of the HLC is to serve in an outreach capacity by seeking out homeless and at risk clients at RI shelters. The HLC can provide direct legal services to those who cannot afford an attorney or may be unable to travel to a legal assistance office, are unaware such services exist or may be apprehensive about visiting a lawyer's office. The services now are being held at Harrington Hall and Crossroads only. The clinics are staffed by Attorney, Phillip Weistein and Attorney Dena Paolino, volunteer law students, and shelter liaisons.