The Communities Partnering 4 Peace Justice Corps is the legal aid arm of Metropolitan Peace Initiatives.
A division of Metropolitan Family Services, Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI) partners with community-based and citywide organizations to help heal Chicago’s communities experiencing the highest levels of gun violence. The Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P) Justice Corps provides free, neighborhood-based civil legal services in support of these organizations.
How We Help
The Justice Corps serves participants of CP4P’s Community Partner Organizations.
Services are free and confidential, client-centered, culturally sensitive, and bilingual (English and Spanish). Staff provide onsite monthly legal clinics for organizations. Each clinic includes a community education component followed by individual client appointments and general office hours for walk-ins.
The Justice Corps offers participants and staff the opportunity to move past the legal issues and barriers holding them back from success. Staff assist with criminal records expungement/sealing (including cannabis offenses), employment issues, housing, public benefits, crime victim services, human trafficking, immigration, elder law, and domestic violence.
Community Partner Organizations
- Alliance of Local Service Organizations (ALSO)
- Breakthrough Urban Ministries
- Claretian Associates
- Enlace Chicago
- Institute for Nonviolence Chicago (INVC)
- New Life Centers
- ONE Northside
- Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation
- Project H.O.O.D.
- Public Equity
- Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP)
- Target Area Development Corp.
- Think Outside Da Block
- Together Chicago
- UCAN
To learn more about the Metropolitan Peace Initiative, please visit their website. https://metropolitanpeaceinitiatives.org/