On May 21st and 24th, Los Angeles Times writer Sandy Banks published a two-part article on a single mother’s struggle to regain custody after being arrested (the charges were later dropped). To read the full story on the Los Angeles Times website, click here. As the Harriett Buhai Center currently has two programs dedicated to
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On May 11, 2011 the Daily Journal ran an article authored by Harriett Buhai Center Executive Director Betty Nordwind, Harriett Buhai Center Advisory Council Chair Judy Forman and her associate Terry Steen. The article discusses the state of legal services for the poor in California and the struggle low-income litigants, like the Center’s clients, face.
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The Harriett Buhai Center developed its Community College Program to fill the lack of legal assistance for low-income community college students in LA County who are experiencing domestic violence and other family problems. The area schools include East Los Angeles, El Camino, Los Angeles Trade Tech, LA City, Southwest, Mount San Antonio and Citrus College.
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As a Senior Staff Attorney, Erin Dabbs was concerned that low-income parents lacking legal counsel were often forced to miss work, pay for expensive child care and transportation in order to get documents and files at court. Taking the initiative, Erin helped secure a legislative amendment that allows unmarried litigants in paternity cases to designate
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The Center’s five-year-old Mothers Behind Bars program, praised by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, continues to expand its efforts to deal with the devastating–and growing–problem of incarcerated women with children. Nationwide, there are nearly one million women in the correctional system–a 400% increase since drug laws mandated sentencing, according to the National Women’s
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