Volunteer Guide

Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc.

  • Location:
    2806 McGavock Pike
    Entrance #7
    Nashville, TN 37214
  • Phone:
    (615) 760-2778
  • Fax:
    (615) 259-2851
  • Contact methods:
    Email
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Catholic Charities of Tennessee provides a wide range of services and programs to immigrants and refugees at an affordable rate. 

Counties served: Bedford, Davidson, Dickson, Dyer, Franklin, Giles, Hickman, Humphreys, Macon, Madison, Marshall, McMinn, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Trousdale, Warren, Williamson, Wilson

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Humanitarian Parole, Naturalization/Citizenship, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
Types of immigration legal services provided: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Other areas of legal assistance: Community Development
Non-legal services: Legal Orientation Programs (LOP) / Know Your Rights Presentations (KYR), Legislative advocacy (state or national), Referrals to other services
Populations served: Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender
Languages spoken: Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Burmese, English, Farsi, Iraqi, Kurdish, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? Yes
Other information: Fees are determined by what services are needed.

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 0
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 1
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 0
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 1

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: American Immigration Lawyers Association, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Church World Service, Immigration Advocates Network, Justice for our Neighbors/United Methodist Committee on Relief, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, World Relief, YMCA, YWCA, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), Justice for our Neighbors (JFON)