Legal Services for Children

<p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;">LSC’s mission is to ensure that all children and youth in San Francisco Bay Area have an opportunity to be raised in a safe environment with equal access to a meaningful education and the services and supports they need to become healthy and productive young adults. LSC pioneered a unique interdisciplinary approach to legal services, employing teams of attorneys and social workers to comprehensively meet the needs of our clients.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;">LSC’s team advocacy approach enables us to provide a wide spectrum of services. We represent children and youth in cases that include legal guardianship, dependency, school discipline, immigration, emancipation, and restraining order proceedings.</p><p style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;">Supporting the work of our in-house attorneys and social workers, a panel of pro bono attorneys provides over 3,000 hours per year of free legal assistance and advocacy to our clients.</p>