U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Office for Civil Rights
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, DC 20201
Phone (800) 368-1019
TDD (800) 537-7697
Email: ocrmail@hhs.gov
Website: www.hhs.gov/ocr/mission.html
The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Office for Civil Rights, promotes and ensures that people have equal access to and opportunity to participate in and receive services in all HHS programs without facing unlawful discrimination. Through prevention and elimination of unlawful discrimination, the Office for Civil Rights helps HHS carry out its overall mission of improving the health and well-being of all people affected by its many programs.

Appleseed Foundation

727 15th Street, NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 347-7960
Fax: (202) 347-7961
Website: www.appleseeds.net

The Appleseed Foundation’s mission is to effect and enable constructive systemic change leading to a more just, equitable, and sustainable society. It focuses primarily on immigration, health care, education, and employment discrimination. To carry out this purpose, Appleseed is building a national network of locally-based law centers, known as Appleseed Centers.

Welfare Law Center

Center for Social Welfare Policy and Law
275 7th Avenue, Suite 1205
New York, NY 10001-6708
Phone: (212) 633-6967
Website: www.welfarelaw.org
Website: www.lincproject.org

The Welfare Law Center works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support – public funding provided on the basis of need – is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.