Help MHAS provide free legal services for people with mental health disabilities

Make A Gift During Mental Health Awareness Month!

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, please consider making a donation to support Mental Health Advocacy Services (MHAS) providing free legal services for low-income individuals with mental health disabilities and their families.

MHAS recognizes that there are a myriad of non-medical factors that can affect a person’s mental health, well-being, and quality of life. For example, socioeconomic status and structural racism produce and perpetuate health inequities. MHAS leverages its legal expertise to ensure that clients have access to safe housing, stable employment, physical and mental health care, and other resources needed to prevent mental health challenges and/or address them when they arise.

MHAS's programs focus on assisting individuals with mental health disabilities by:

• fighting housing discrimination through legal representation, fair housing training, and community education;
• protecting individuals struggling with consumer law issues, including enforcement of fair debt collection laws and credit reparation;
• providing physical and mental health care to low-income mothers during and after pregnancy;
• advising individuals on issues pertaining to government benefits, including the SSI application process and post-eligibility issues such as benefit terminations, overpayments, and disability reviews;
• conducting community training sessions to teach parents and caregivers how to obtain special education services for their children with mental health needs;
• providing formerly incarcerated individuals with legal services in the areas of expungement, employment, housing, and criminal justice debt, in an effort to minimize barriers to re-entry; and
• providing low-income tenants with pre-eviction and eviction legal services to improve housing stability and reduce the risk of homelessness.

To learn more about MHAS's mission and programs, please visit mhas-la.org.