California Rural Legal Assistance Madera

This is a HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agency. Contact them for assistance for the following:
Fair Housing Pre-Purchase Education Workshops
Pre-purchase Counseling
Predatory Lending Education Workshops
Rental Housing Counseling
Languages Spoken at Housing Agency:
English
Who We Serve
California Rural Legal Assistance serves low-income individuals residing in over 22 California counties. As rural areas and small cities of California continue to change, so does our outreach and service to diverse communities. Today, California Rural Legal Assistance serves a wide array of clients, while maintaining specialized programs that focus on services for farmworker populations. CRLA clients also include individuals with disabilities, immigrant populations, school children, lesbian/gay/bisexual and transgender populations, seniors and individuals with limited English proficiency.
California Rural Legal Assistance legal services are shaped by the needs of our diverse client community. Through a state-wide network of 21 offices, our staff conducts litigation, outreach and legal education on the most pressing issues facing low-income communities: housing; employment; education; workplace safety; discrimination; income maintenance and healthcare access. California Rural Legal Assistance provides legal services in conjunction with a series of innovative programs and special initiatives. Strategically designed programs and initiatives allow California Rural Legal Assistance to address recurring, wide-spread problems that we have identified through emergent patterns in our individual client cases. California Rural Legal Assistance has developed initiatives that deal with many complex and persistent problems for rural communities: protecting the health and safety of farmworkers; guaranteeing that workers receive proper wages; protecting individuals from predatory lending; fighting for communities that lack basic infrastructure; advocating for indigenous Mexican farmworkers; providing education and training to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace; enforcing fair housing practices; supporting victims of domestic violence; guaranteeing the rights of children to a quality education; and increasing access to healthcare among California's low-income families.