Consumer Services Guide (CSG)

Consumer Action Edition

The Consumer Services Guide is searchable directory of resources which can help you with consumer problems and questions. There are multiple editions of the ‘Guide’, some which deal with specific issues such as housing or credit. The full directory, the Consumer Service Guide Edition, provides access to all the resources collected by Consumer Action.

Listings for San Francisco County

These are the results for consumer specific consumer resources for San Francisco County. The listing is grouped by primary service category, then sorted alphabetically.

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Immigration

• La Raza Centro Legal
  La Raza Centro Legal is a community-based legal organization dedicated to empowering Latino, immigrant and low-income communities of San Francisco to advocate for their civil and human rights. We combine legal services, organizing, advocacy, and social services to build grassroots power and alliances towards creating a movement for a just society. (San Francisco, CA)
  
• San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network (SFILEN)
  SFILEN works to achieve this mission of immigrant rights through building grassroots leadership, providing free immigration legal services and comprehensive legal assistance, promoting community education, and organizing to empower the immigrant community.
  
  We have organized and implemented this system to respond to the heightened enforcement actions be Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). (San Francisco, CA)
  

Insurance

• Legal Assistance to the Elderly
  Provides assistance on civil matters, including landlord/tenant, to S.F. residents, 60 years or older. Must be S.F. resident 60 years or older. Provides legal services and health insurance counseling for seniors (age 60 or over). Assistance includes help with Medicare, Medi-Cal, Social Security, SSI, tenant problems, physical abuse, financial abuse, residential care and nursing homes. Home, hospital and nursing home visits are made by appointment.… (San Francisco, CA)
  
• United Policyholders
  A nonprofit organization that provides information about insurance from the consumer’s point of view. They offer help in understanding your insurance policies, as well as tips for making a successful claim, especially after a natural disaster. (San Francisco, CA)
  

Legal Assistance

• AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP)
  ALRP is the only institution in the San Francisco Bay Area solely dedicated to providing free and low-cost legal assistance and education on virtually any civil matter to persons living with HIV/AIDS. This includes such widely disparate areas as housing, bankruptcy/credit, immigration, employment, insurance, confidentiality matters, family law, government benefits, and public accommodations. We accomplish this mission through either direct representation of clients by one… (San Francisco, CA)
  
• API Legal Outreach
  API Legal Outreach's mission is to promote culturally and linguistically appropriate services for the most marginalized segments of the API community. Their work is currently focused in the areas of domestic violence, violence against women, immigration and immigrant rights, senior law and elder abuse, human trafficking, public benefits, and social justice issues. (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Asian Law Caucus (ALC)
  Non-profit legal organization which offers assistance to low-income consumers. Promote, advances and represents the legal and civil rights of Asian and Pacific Islander communities. ALC provides help throughout the Bay Area. Free or low-cost, depending on income. (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Bar Association of San Francisco
  The Bar Association of San Francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. They provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in San Francisco. They create opportunities for legal service in the community and encourage participation by our members. They advance professional growth and education, and elevate the standards of integrity, honor, and respect in the… (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Instituto Laboral de la Raza
  For over 27 years, the Instituto Laboral de la Raza has served low income families of California as a nonprofit advocacy and workers’ resource center. Headquartered in the Mission District of San Francisco, with a field office in San Jose, the Instituto provides legal services, peer counseling, financial education and access to a network of services to the unorganized working poor. Most of their clients… (San Francisco, CA)
  
• La Raza Centro Legal
  La Raza Centro Legal is a community-based legal organization dedicated to empowering Latino, immigrant and low-income communities of San Francisco to advocate for their civil and human rights. We combine legal services, organizing, advocacy, and social services to build grassroots power and alliances towards creating a movement for a just society. (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
  Runs a legal clinic to represent indigent refugees seeking asylum in San Francisco. Also runs a civil legal clinic by appointment only. Other services include advice and referral, negotiation, administrative and legislative advocacy, litigation, public education and coalition building. (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Legal Assistance to the Elderly
  Provides assistance on civil matters, including landlord/tenant, to S.F. residents, 60 years or older. Must be S.F. resident 60 years or older. Provides legal services and health insurance counseling for seniors (age 60 or over). Assistance includes help with Medicare, Medi-Cal, Social Security, SSI, tenant problems, physical abuse, financial abuse, residential care and nursing homes. Home, hospital and nursing home visits are made by appointment.… (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Public Advocates
  Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity. (San Francisco, CA)
  
• San Francisco District Attorney
  Mediation of disputes involving San Francisco-based businesses; prosecution of criminal and civil consumer fraud. (San Francisco, CA)
  
• State Bar of California
  The State Bar is a public corporation within the judicial branch of government, serving as an arm of the California Supreme Court. All State Bar members are officers of the court. Membership in the State Bar of California affords attorneys the right and privilege of practicing law in this state. The bar’s integrated network of functions and services—many of them mandated by law—protects the public… (San Francisco, CA)
  

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