Suite 200
Washington DC 20036
Contact: Anna Lifson
Phone: 202-452-9550
Fax: 202-452-8255
Email: anna@weaveincorp.org
Web address: www.weaveincorp.org
- Need nonlitigator volunteers?
- Yes.
- Malpractice insurance for volunteers:
- Yes.
- Intake hours:
- Emergency services:;D.C. Superior Court Domestic Violence Intake Center;500 Indiana Ave., NW, Room 4235;Washington, DC 20001; 202-393-6290;;Greater Southeast Community Hospital;1328 Southern Ave., SE, Suite 311;Washington, DC 20032;202-561-3000
- Non-english services?
- Spanish and Portuguese and Language Line interpreters available.
- Opportunities for attorneys not admitted in D.C.:
- Yes, if active.
- Need paralegal/law students:
- Yes
- Screening:
- Free services to all survivors of domestic or dating violence, when available resources / no conflic
- Training offered:
- Yes. CPO/TPO, divorce, custody, child support, immigration, and teen-specific domestic violence & family law cases.
- Types of services:
- Direct legal and social services to victims of domestic violence in D.C. for any legal issue related to violence. Emergency domestic relations project's intake counseling for domestic violence victims seeking civil protection orders at the Domestic Violence Intake Center at D.C. Superior Court. Legal information clinics staffed by volunteer attorneys to prepare pro se domestic violence for their CPO hearings.
- Volunteer needs:
- Yes.
- Subject areas:
- Asylum/Immigration, Child Custody, Domestic Violence, Family
