Paralegal/Legal Assistant

Posted 03/17/2022

About First Grace Community Alliance

<p><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">First Grace Community Alliance's mission is to work with and for people in need, especially women and children, by meeting food, housing, and other emergency needs, while simultaneously challenging systemic poverty in the greater New Orleans Area. Our two main programs are Hagar's House and Project Ishmael.</span></font></p><p><font face="Helvetica"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Project Ishmael</span></b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> is a pro bono immigration legal program for children that seeks to:</span></font></p><ul><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Meet some of the immigration legal needs of children in New Orleans through direct representation and education,</span><br></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Coordinate with volunteer attorneys to help meet the diverse legal needs of women and children who currently live at Hagar's House, and</span><br></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Challenge systemic injustices that allow children and their families to be separated, harassed, deported or incarcerated based on skin color or immigration status.</span></font></li></ul><p><font face="Helvetica"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Hagar’s House</span></b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> is a sanctuary for women and children in New Orleans that provides an open and empowering residential community, resource coordination and a safe space to transition into sustainable housing.We offer:</span></font></p><ul><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A beautiful, clean, safe place to rest and call home</span><br></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">An open and empowering space that welcomes women, children and those who identify as transgender</span><br></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">An intentional community that is actively engaged in undoing the root causes of poverty</span><br></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Holistic programming focused on physical health, emotional/spiritual health and social justice</span><br></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A Capacity Building partnership where residents meet weekly with staff to set their own long and short-term goals and to determine their own path for meeting those goals</span><br></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A savings program in which working residents save 70% of their income, ideally $3,000 at the time of moving out</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Healthy food and space to plant in a community garden</span></font></li></ul>

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