Eviction Prevention Services • Food Stamps • Health Care
Workers' Rights Project • Job Opportunities • Staff
The Legal Advocacy & Organizing Department provides free legal advice, information and representation to individuals who live, work or go to school between 59th and 110th Streets, from 5th Avenue to the East River and on Roosevelt Island. Our clients include low-income families, immigrants, older adults, homebound and disabled adults, homeless and formerly homeless men and women and low-wage workers.
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We work as a team with other Lenox Hill Neighborhood House program staff to ensure that our clients receive a seamless continuum of care. We conduct outreach and intake at our five East Side sites, including our Women’s Mental Health Shelter, Casa Mutua, our supportive housing residence for formerly homeless adults, our two Senior Centers and at many other East Side community-based organizations. |
Our team of four attorneys and five non-attorney advocates assist individuals in the following areas: Benefits/Entitlements, Housing, Health Care (Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance), Supplemental Needs Trusts, Employment law, and Advance Directives. In addition to providing direct legal services, we conduct educational workshops and trainings for community residents and organizations throughout the East Side.
Are you seeking legal assistance?
Our legal team of attorneys and non-attorney legal advocates assist individuals in the following areas: Benefits/Entitlements, Housing, Health Care (Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance), Supplemental Needs Trusts, Employment law, and Advance Directives.
If you need legal assistance, please contact us at 212 744-5022:
Food Stamps: ext. 1278
Medicaid Eligibility or Applications: ext. 1369
Medicare/Medicaid/Health Insurance: ext. 1291
Workers’ Rights Project: ext. 1392
Caregivers Legal Support Center: ext. 1384
For all other issues, you can contact us at 212 744-5022, ext. 1392, or come to our walk-in clinic on Mondays from 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. at 331 East 70th Street. People will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis and we will see the first four people who have signed up.
All cases will be screened through our intake process and will be accepted on an individual case-by-case basis. If we cannot assist you directly, we will do our best to make an appropriate referral. Due to the high demand for our services, our primary housing-related efforts are directed at eviction prevention.
Caregivers Legal Support Center
Our Caregivers Legal Support Center, launched in 2005 with seed funding from The New York Community Trust, provides free civil legal services to unpaid family caregivers and their elderly, and often frail, care recipients.
The Caregivers Legal Support Center helps caregivers and their care recipients with a variety of civil legal needs, including health care (Medicare and Medicaid coverage, private insurance and long-term care insurance); housing matters (including eviction defense, housing quality standards and rent-regulated housing); income support and government benefits; obtaining guardianship and planning for incapacity and end-of-life.
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We work in collaboration with Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s support program for family caregivers Project STAR as well as with social workers, case managers and medical providers in our community. In addition to providing legal services, the Caregivers Legal Support Center conducts trainings and educational workshops throughout the community.
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Eviction Prevention Services
Our Legal Advocacy & Organizing Department provides free legal services to help individuals and families remain in their homes and avoid eviction.
Are you facing an eviction? Have you received a notice from your landlord? If your income is below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines ($1,805/month for an individual; $2,429/month for a family of two; $3,052/month for a family of three), and you have received a notice from your landlord, please contact our intake hotline at 212 744-5022, ext. 1392 for a confidential assessment. If we cannot assist you directly, we will refer your case to another organization that may be able to assist you.
Food Stamps
Recent changes have expanded Food Stamp eligibility in New York City, so more individuals and families are eligible for Food Stamps than ever before. Our Food Stamp Advocate conducts confidential pre-screenings to determine whether clients are eligible and assists them in submitting their application.
If you are interested in determining whether you are eligible for Food Stamps, please call our Food Stamp Advocate at 212 744-5022, ext. 1278. You can also come to our Food Stamp Assistance Clinic, which is held every Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. - 1 p.m. No appointment is needed for the Food Stamp Assistance Clinic.
Click here for more information about the Food Stamp Assistance Clinic, including the documentation you should bring with you for your Food Stamp pre-screening.
Workers' Rights Project
In October of 2006, with support from the Skadden Foundation Fellowship program, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House launched our Workers’ Rights Project – the first fully integrated direct legal services project for the working poor on the East Side of Manhattan.
The Workers' Rights Project provides low-income workers with direct legal services, counseling, information and advice and referrals to other legal service providers. We conduct client workshops and trainings on legal and related issues and develop and disseminate outreach materials. The comprehensive services provided by the Workers’ Rights Project are tailored to maintain low- income workers’ economic self-sufficiency by focusing on issues such as food stamp benefits, access to health care, such as Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance, housing, particularly with eviction prevention and housing quality standards and direct legal assistance on issues related to employment (e.g., wages and hours, unemployment benefits, unlawful workplace discrimination and harassment). We believe that addressing all of these critical issues in a holistic, interdisciplinary manner is the only way that low-income workers can truly have a chance to maintain their economic stability.
For more information about our Workers’ Rights Project, please contact Carolyn Silver, Esq., at 212 744-5022, ext. 1253 or csilver@lenoxhill.org.
