Opening Doors, Inc helps underserved members of the Greater Sacramento Area access opportunities within the US social and economic system. Their programs help those escaping human trafficking and newly arrived refugees to start safe and healthy lives. They provide low-cost immigration legal services, financial education classes, and small business support programs.

They do this with a multi-cultural staff and volunteers who respect the cultural identities and individual goals of their clients.

Web pages

• Immigration legal services - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/defending-immigrants/
• Mental health program - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/addressing-mental-health/
• Refugee programs - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/welcoming-refugees/
• Support for survivors of trafficking - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/supporting-survivors/
• Economic prosperity program - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/expanding-economic-opportunity/

Concierge Fiduciary Services provides specialized professional fiduciary services to individuals for the purpose of professional management or legal assignment for matters of probate, estate planning, or powers of attorney.

Lori Cochrane, a licensed professional fiduciary is a founder and principal fiduciary, specializing in matters of the person, serving as power of attorney for health care, conservator of the person, and care and special needs advocate.

Qualified Professional Fiduciaries on staff with Concierge Fiduciary Services specialize in matters of the estate, serving as trustee, successor trustee, special needs trustee, and power of attorney for finances.

A concierge is a person or service that provides assistance with personal business.
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When someone has a fiduciary duty to someone else, the person with the duty must act in a way that will benefit someone else, usually financially. The person who has a fiduciary … [read more]

The Tenant Power Toolkit (TPT) is a multi-organization collaborative effort designed to keep people in their homes, fight evictions, fight rent debt, and build the collective power of tenants. Learn how to use the Tenant Power Toolkit - Attend one of the free online Toolkit Trainings. The trainings are aimed at helping California tenant organizers, counselors, lawyers and tenants themselves on how to use the Toolkit to keep renters in their homes. 

This is how it works: You answer some questions about your eviction and debt situation. TPT helps you fight your eviction and your rent debt, links you with legal resources and tenants’ rights groups, and their housing justice work including collective action campaigns. 

• Tenant Resources & Know Your Rights
• FAQs

Websites:

• Main page - https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/
• Tenant Resources & Know Your Rights - https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/know-your-rights.html
• FAQs - https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/faqs…

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Tenants Together is a statewide renters’ rights organization devoted to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants. We work to help tenants assert their rights to safe, decent, and affordable housing. Most tenants around the state have no meaningful protection from rising rents, unfair evictions and abusive landlords. Tenants Together can help answer questions about rights as a tenant in California and provide assistance to those facing a difficult situation with a landlord. http://www.tenantstogether.org/

For information regarding evictions, see the Tenant Defense Toolkit here:
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The Nevada County District Attorney provides crime victims with emotional support in the aftermath of crime, guidance through the criminal justice process, assistance in applying for Victim Compensation and awareness of victims' rights. All services are confidential and free of charge.

Call them if:

• You need to talk to someone about the effect of the crime
• You want an explanation of the court process
• You want to know the status of your case
• You need a referral to a social service agency
• You want an advocate with you when you testify
• You need information about protective/restraining orders
• You want help preparing a Victim Impact Statement
• You have questions about restitution for your losses
• You need assistance filing a victim of crime claim

 

The Victim/Witness program of the Placer County District Attorney's office offers support and advocacy to victims and witnesses of crimes.

Program services are provided free of charge, and there is no legal citizenship requirement to receive assistance.

• The crime should be reported to law enforcement.
• The victim must cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of any known suspects.
• The victim must not have contributed to the events which led up to the crime.
• The Victim Services program provides direct services and reimbursement for victims of crime in Placer County.

Direct services include:

• Court Escort/Court Support
• Emergency Assistance Information and Referral for Shelter
• Food and Clothing
• Follow-up Counseling
• Employer Notification/Intervention

Reimbursable services include:

• Mental Health Counseling
• Medical/Dental
• Wage/Income Loss
• Emergency Moving Expenses

Web pages

• Victim/Witness Assistance program - https://www.placer.ca.gov/3356/Victim-Witness-Assistance
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Legal Services of Northern California provides pension counseling at no cost to callers of all ages and income levels who live or have worked in California, Arizona, Nevada or Hawaii. There are no age or income requirements.

LSNC offers legal advice and assistance with:

• Employer-sponsored retirement plans
• Help with understanding rights under the plan
• Claiming benefits
• Locating lost benefits from previous employers
• Working through the claims and appeals process
• Understanding rights as a former or surviving spouse
• Correcting benefit calculations
• Addressing overpayment demands
• And more...

World Relief offers legal support to help immigrants through the immigration process.  Services include:  

Immigration Legal Services

• Adjustment of Status
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
• Family-based petitions

Employment & Economic Opportunity
Education
Refugee Resettlement

Types of immigration legal services provided:

• Help completing forms
• Filings with USCIS

Non-legal services:

• Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR)
• Referrals to other services

Websites:

• Main page - https://worldrelief.org/sacramento/
• Immigration Legal Services - https://worldrelief.org/sacramento/our-work/ils/
• Education - https://worldrelief.org/sacramento/our-work/education/
• Refugee Resettlement - https://worldrelief.org/sacramento/our-work/refugee-resettlement/