Advocacy - Richmond, Client Assistance Program, disAbility Law Center of Virginia

1512 Willow Lawn Drive, Suite 100, Richmond, VA 23230

Eligibility

N/A

Hours

8:30am to 4:30pm from Monday through Friday

(804) 662-7431

Fax

(804) 225-2042

Voice

Websitehttps://dlcv.org

Languages

Spanish

Application process

If you would like to request our services, you can use our online request portal at www.dlcv.org/get-help. That portal is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can also call us Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM, and ask to speak with our advocate on duty. You can reach us at (800) 552-3962 (toll-free). We may not be able to respond as quickly as we normally do, but it is our intent to respond to all who contact us.

Service area

The Client Assistance Program was established as part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to explain and protect the rights of and benefits to persons who are clients of or applicants for services provided by the Department of Rehabilitative Services, Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired, Centers for Independent Living, or programs funded under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. dLCV can assist eligible individuals to help resolve problems with a client's counselor or case manager, mediate disagreements about services, provide information on additional resources, and represent clients who are denied services or provided inappropriate services.

What's Here

Advocacy

Providing organization

disAbility Law Center of Virginia

The disAbility Law Center helps with disability-related problems like abuse, neglect, and discrimination. We also help people with disabilities obtain services and treatment. Individuals with problems, targeted in our program goals, may also receive advocacy services and/or legal representation. The disAbility Law Center of Virginia?s mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy and representation.