Volunteer Guide

Sanctuary for Families - Center for Battered Women's Legal Services

  • Location:
    30 Wall Street
    8th Floor
    New York, NY 10005
  • Phone:
    (212) 349-6009 ext. 221
  • Fax:
    (212) 566-0344

Sanctuary for Families' Legal Center is one of the largest providers of free legal services exclusively for victims of domestic violence, human trafficking, and other forms of gender based violence in the United States. Sanctuary staff assist clients in claiming control of their lives while advocating for policy changes and raising public awareness to end all forms of gender based violence. In addition to comprehensive legal services, Sanctuary offers a wide range of clinical, residential, and economic empowerment services.

Counties served: Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), NY (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island)

Services Provided

Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Habeas Corpus, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
Populations served: Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status, Individuals with criminal histories, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Juveniles, Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Burmese, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay-Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Signers for the deaf: ASL, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Urdu, Fula, Fulani, Gallego, Sou Sou, Twi

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes