CRLAF ProjectsCRLAF Projects
Project staff work to protect workers' rights and health, improve access to quality schooling and higher education, raise the voices of disenfranchised Californians in low-income and marginalized communities, and provide
essential legal services.
Protecting Children of Immigrants
The Protecting Children of Immigrants Project, directed by Equal Justice Works Fellow Eliana Kaimowitz, provides legal education and legal services to immigrant parents on immigrants’ and parental rights and encourages families to prepare in case of an emergency separation caused by immigration enforcement.
Affordable Housing Project
CRLAF’s Affordable Housing Project focuses on statewide housing policy and its affect on low-income households, seniors, farmworkers and others in need of affordable housing.
Labor Law
The Labor and Employment Law Project is directed by CRLA Foundation Deputy Director Mark Schacht, who is a 10 year veteran of Capitol Hill, where he worked as a congressional staffer, civil rights lobbyist and as Executive Director of the Farmworker Justice Fund (now Farmworker Justice).
Labor & Civil Rights Litigation
CRLAF works to ensure that the rights of farm workers, immigrants and other low-wage workers are aggressively enforced in rural California by focusing on impact litigation and appellate advocacy.
Immigration and Citizenship
CRLAF’s Immigration and Citizenship Project promotes access to immigration relief (where applicable) and information about immigration laws for the rural poor.
Agricultural Worker Health
Since 2002, CRLAF's Agricultural Worker Health Project has combined community outreach, leadership development, and policy and legal advocacy to help immigrant and farm worker communities improve their health and safety
Education Equity
The Education Project provides technical assistance, advocacy support, and training to legal service projects, elementary and secondary educational institutions, other public entities, and low income individuals statewide.
Pesticide and Work Safety
The Pesticide and Work Safety Project works to bring to light and reduce agricultural work hazards and pesticide exposures faced by California’s agricultural workers and other rural residents.
Sustainable Rural Communities
As the newest project at CRLAF, the Sustainable Rural Communities Project attempts to merge many of our organization’s longstanding direct services and advocacy issues into an approach that attacks the more systemic causes of our communities’ poverty, poor health and degraded environments.
