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CCH’s Law Project is the only legal aid program in Illinois exclusively focused on the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

The Law Project represents clients with varied legal needs including educational rights, public benefits, family law, housing, criminal records relief, and accessing identification documents. 

Some clients are denied healthcare or removed from lifesaving benefits due to clerical errors. Others are students wrongfully barred for enrolling in their local schools or denied financial aid after becoming homeless. CCH legal staff help people who struggle, often for months or years, to access the care and support they need now.

The Law Project offers broad community outreach to educate people experiencing homelessness on their rights and options and to ensure that legal aid connects with those who need it. 

Youth Futures, a mobile legal clinic, serves students and unaccompanied youth through age 24. 

We also distribute know-your-rights materials and train educators and service providers on legal issues relevant to people impacted by homelessness.

The Law Project manages a college scholarship program, the Illinois Homeless Youth Handbook, and Streetlight Chicago, an app and website for unstably housed young people.

You can support the critical work of the Law Project by joining our Justice Circle.
The Justice Circle includes members of the legal community and others who financially support the Law Project’s legal assistance, advocacy, and community outreach.

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