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The Disability Law Center
protects the rights of people with disabilities in Utah. To get help from the Disability Law Center, call 1-800-662-9080 (voice) or 1-800-550-4182 (TTY) to speak confidentially with one of their Short Term Assistance Advocates. They will provide you with the information and/or assistance you need. Spanish-speaking advocates are available.

Pocket Guides on Students' Rights
UNM students are preparing Spanish-English materials for health providers and students to be distributed through school-based medical clniics. Over time, we hope to create materials that will explain students' legal rights and responsibilities in a number of areas: immigration, health care access and confidentiality, truancy, substance abuse, domestic violence, etc. If you know of such materials or can provide reference for such materials, please contact: umbalaw@comcast.net

Scout Troop Looking for Mentors - Our goal with these boys is to introduce them to role models that are Hispanic Professionals to give them hope in the future. We are trying to find Lawyers, Doctors and other Professionals that are Hispanic to help us with these career goals in the next year. We are planning several activities where we would like to have the boys meet Professionals in different industries. Some of those Professionals hopefully will allow us to visit their work places. More...

Utah Dometic Violence Shelters - listing of shelters statewide. (Requires Adobe)

Utah Legal Services - Statewide Legal Needs Assessment
(July 2005) In the next 4 months Utah Legal Services will be conducting a legal needs assessment for low income residents of Utah. Included in the needs assessment is surveying more than 1600 migrant farm workers, minorities, youth at risk, immigrants, domestic violence survivors and several other target groups. The questions will include information on needs in a variety of areas such as housing, immigration law help, employment problems and several others.
ULS seeks help to find subjects to survey and to help us conduct surveys. This commitment will entail a 1 hour training session and up to 5 surveys per person. Each survey takes approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete. I you cannot commit to conducting surveys, you can find subjects for us and set up appointments for us to come out to their home and survey them there. There will be a small inducement given to subjects. A more detailed explanation of this project is being sent with this e mail.
Please e mail the contact below for info and to register for the next training.

Utah Minority Bar Association
c/o Utah State Bar, Law & Justice Center
645 South 200 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111-3834
mailto: umbalaw@utahbar.org