The Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC) is the nation's largest legal organization serving Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. Founded in 1983, APALC is a unique organization that combines traditional legal services with civil rights advocacy and leadership development. The mission of APALC is to advocate for civil rights, provide legal services and education and build coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Pacific Americans. The ultimate goal is to create a more equitable and harmonious society. As a direct legal services provider, APALC serves the diverse APA communities with intake, legal counseling, education, and representation in poverty law areas such as family law and domestic violence, consumer rights, immigration, and housing. Through its staff and volunteers, it has the capacity to facilitate numerous languages including Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Khmer, Indonesian, and Vietnamese, along with English and Spanish. APALC is the only legal service provider in Los Angeles County that maintains this type of language capacity, and thus is an important resource for indigent monolingual or limited English speaking APAs who are in need of legal assistance.
Dream Fund Project
The Dream Fund supports APALC's efforts to develop a sustainable Parent Organizing Network that brings together the many grassroots parent organizing groups that are independently working at high schools from the San Gabriel Valley to East Los Angeles and the South Los Angeles regions. APALC is seeking to work with parents and schools to improve educational opportunities for low-income, minority and immigrant youth.
This initiative aims at creating and advancing a collective educational agenda that promotes race-conscious solutions for Los Angeles locally and California, regionally.
Contact Representative
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Fax: (213) 977-7595